COMPLETE: 24 Milestones

T1: Work with City of Dallas, DISD, and DART to transition the bus and light duty fleet to 100% electric by 2040.

• Participate in partnerships with internal and external entities to establish light duty fleet in conjunction with city facilities locations

• Support NCTCOG’s Clean Cities efforts to promote vehicle electrification

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T4: Establish a comprehensive incentives package to help accelerate electric vehicle use.

• Work with the internal City EV Working Group to develop a strategy to deploy electric vehicle infrastructure on municipal property

• Work with partners to increase electric vehicle charging infrastructure in equity priority areas

• Implement the EVSE siting study for public facing charging stations on city properties

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T5: Support and expand recommended Travel Demand Management strategies identified in the Strategic Mobility Plan.

• Align Forward Dallas with Travel Demand Management strategies from the Strategic Mobility Plan

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T7: Secure resources to implement the existing bicycle network masterplan.

• Participate in bike plan update process

• Update the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan to help better identify high-priority corridors for implementing bike facilities

• Implement bicycle facilities and lanes, depending on City Council annual appropriations.

• Include considerations for additional micro-mobility technologies (i.e.scooters) in addition to cycling in the Bike Plan update

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T8: Evaluate infrastructure to enable city policy on micro mobility services to be distributed equitably.

• Partner with stakeholders to ensure alignment with city plans including Strategic Mobility Plan, CECAP, Bike Plan, etc.

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T9: Increase bus service across the city by adding new routes, shortening headways, and overall increasing service reliability and customer experience.

• Partner with DART during development of Forward Dallas to align density and land use patterns with public transit to increase ridership where routes exist

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T10: Adopt a target corridor, district, or city-wide mode split goals to help reinforce policies aimed at reducing single-occupancy vehicle use.

• Support regional air quality improvement efforts to reduce single occupancy vehicle trips

• Support TRN on implementation of Connect Dallas trip reduction actions

• Work with City Staff to provide incentives and track emissions reduced through our alternative commute programs.

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T11: Develop a new comprehensive land use strategy in the upcoming comprehensive plan update to pair with the SMP and CECAP goals, adopt policy to reduce transportation related GHG emissions.

• As part of Forward Dallas, review Thoroughfare Plan for consistency with other planning efforts

• Continue development of Forward Dallas

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T12: Expand upon the DART transit-oriented development (TOD) guidelines to collaborate on a new proactive TOD and housing strategy with DART.

• Consider transit-oriented development guidelines and strategies as part of Forward Dallas

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T14: Adopt a revised parking ordinance strategy that supports new mode split goals and land use strategy that minimizes available parking in transit-oriented districts.

• Establish On-Street Parking/Curb Management Policy

• Consider amending the parking code

• Support parking code amendment process 

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T16: Convert all traffic lights and streetlights to LEDs.

• Convert lights to LED as funding is made available; All new lighting projects require LED whether City-owned, Oncor-owned or TxDOT-owned (also with Office of Integrated Police Solutions)

• Initiate conversion of streetlights to LEDs, where feasible

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T19: Encourage businesses, commercial entities, and institutions to electrify fleet, including, but not limited to local and regional delivery trucks and other heavier vehicles.

• Participate in North Texas Regional Transportation Electrification Compact Alliance working to address fleet conversion across North Texas