3. Rapid Implementation Path: Elected and appointed officials perceive strong support for rapid implementation of the preferred future. They work in concert to articulate the value of the preferred future to their communities and to the region. Transportation agencies and other parties assign a high priority to the corridor and assist local officials' efforts to articulate the need. Local officials and transportation agencies secure supplemental public funding from local, state and/or federal sources to permit implementation of Bus Rapid Transit and other transit, highway and streetscape improvements in a concentrated time period (ten years); changes in succeeding years require less funding. Municipalities explore and quickly adopt many recommended implementation mechanisms from the NY 5 study to assist property assemblage, site design and community layout. Private property owners engage effectively with each other on a corridor level and with governmental officials and agencies to leverage public infrastructure investment to encourage private redevelopment investment. Regional economic marketing efforts and external events succeed in projecting a positive, attractive image to the nation and the world; sufficient economic growth provides for much redevelopment activity along the corridor, largely achieving the land use future within ten or so years. Accompanying regional economic temperature: hot. Corridor economic temperature: warm -- and heating up.
