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Transportation Alternatives Program

Program Description

TAP funds are for the construction and planning of bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

Program Eligibility

An eligible project sponsor must be a local government in the Ogden/ Layton or Salt Lake/ West Valley Urbanized Area, the department of transportation, or the transit authority, or submit a letter in cooperation with one of these entities.

Eligible Activities

Funds may be used for construction, planning, and design of on-road and off-road trail facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, and other non-motorized forms of transportation, including sidewalks, bicycle infrastructure, pedestrian and bicycle signals, traffic calming techniques, lighting and other safety-related infrastructure that will provide safe routes for non- drivers, and transportation projects to achieve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Funding eligibility includes Safe Routes to School infrastructure projects.

Funding

By population formula, the federal government currently apportions approximately $1,100,000 in TAP funds each year to the Ogden/ Layton Urbanized Area and approximately $2,000,000 to the Salt Lake/ West Valley Urbanized Area. Applicants will be competing for funds available in the federal fiscal year 2026.

Letters of Intent

In order for the WFRC staff to recommend whether a sponsor should submit an application, the “Letter of Intent” must include the project name, project limits, a brief project description, the type of funds being sought, and an estimated cost. A list of all the projects appropriately submitted will be distributed to members of the Councils of Governments (COGs) and then reviewed by WFRC to determine program eligibility. The list of “Letters of Intent” received during October 2023.

Letters of intent were due September 28, 2023 electronically.

Applications

Sponsors of eligible projects will be notified and required to submit a new and/or updated TAP Concept Report and Cost Estimation Form for each project by December 7, 2023. These reports will be reviewed for completeness. The projects will be evaluated and scored by the WFRC staff according to the approved criteria prior to presenting information to the Technical Committees for review and recommendation. The projects and the recommendations will be presented to the COGs and the Active Transportation Committee for discussion and review, and then to Trans Com for recommendation to the Regional Council.

Please click on the appropriate buttons to obtain the necessary forms:

Staff Contact

Ben Wuthrich,  bwuthrich@wfrc.org, (801) 363-4250 x1121

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