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Challenges:

• Coping with delays in obtaining ridership projection data for rapid transit projects led to a six-month delay in engineering for the South Corridor Light Rail Project and an eight-month delay in completing the major investment studies in the remaining four transit corridors.

• Ensuring regional coordination for future roadway projects to attain air quality conformity under the Clean Air Act.
• Coordinating the integration of land use and transportation.

Successes:

• Received a "Highly Recommended" rating for the South Corridor Light Rail Project from the Federal Transit Administration.  The FTA gave this rating, its highest, to only two other projects nationwide.
• Increased transit ridership 3.6% from 14.0 million in FY 2001 to 14.7 million in FY 2002.
• Installed 3,831 new bus stop signs, with schedule and route information provided, as part of priority improvements to the transit system.