Bill Text: MI HB5969 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Transportation: other; access to park-and-ride lots for transit agencies to use as intermodal transfer points; provide for. Amends sec. 2, ch. V of 1909 PA 283 (MCL 225.2).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-15 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/15/2024 [HB5969 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5969-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5969
A bill to amend 1909 PA 283, entitled
"An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, discontinuing, vacating, closing, altering, improvement, maintenance, and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; maintaining public access to waterways under certain conditions; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, and cutting weeds and brush within this state; providing for the election or appointment and defining the powers, duties, and compensation of state, county, township, and district highway officials; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"
by amending section 2 of chapter V (MCL 225.2).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 2. (1) The state transportation department of state highways and transportation shall administer ridesharing programs in the this state and shall do all of the following:
(a) Develop a comprehensive state ridesharing program. The program shall must examine and recommend application of various ridesharing methods, including carpooling, vanpooling, buspooling, park-and-ride lots, and public transportation.
(b) Provide technical assistance to local transportation and planning agencies.
(c) Develop and maintain computer or manual matching systems for ridesharing programs.
(d) Contract with public and private organizations to perform ridesharing matching programs.
(e) Develop and undertake ridesharing promotional programs.
(f) Coordinate the development of a statewide program of park-and-ride lots.
(g) Coordinate and encourage the development of highway facilities which that give preferential treatment to ridesharing vehicles.
(h) Develop and manage state ridesharing programs.
(i) Work with local transit agencies, where applicable, to prioritize intermodal transfer points at park-and-ride lots.
(j) Allow access to park-and-ride lots for transit agencies that seek to use park-and-ride lots as intermodal transfer points, whether or not state transportation department accommodations were provided in the construction of the park-and-ride lot.
(2) The legislature shall annually appropriate sufficient funds to implement this section.
