The Bay Area Transportation Challenge: An Overview

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The Bay Area Transportation Challenge An Overview
Steve Heminger Executive Director Metropolitan
Transportation Commission April 12, 2007
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MTC A Regional Perspective

• 9 Counties
• Over 7 million people almost 4 million jobs
• 4.5 million cars and 4,300 transit vehicles
• 19,600 miles of local streets, 620 miles of
  freeways and 8 toll bridges

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We Are Three Agencies in One

• MTC Created by the Legislature in 1971.
  Planner, coordinator, manager and banker.
  Distribute over 1 billion per year in local,
  state and federal funds to transportation
  projects and services.
• BATA Created by the Legislature in 1998 to
  administer the base toll on the bridges, BATA is
  now responsible for the entire 4 toll, including
  overseeing the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit
  Program.
• SAFE Created by the Legislature in 1988.
  Oversees the regions network of call boxes and
  the tow trucks and specially trained drivers
  comprising the Freeway Service Patrol.

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Many Players in the Region

• 101 cities and nine counties
• Congestion Management Agencies (CMA) ? recommend
  projects in the STIP for each county and
  administer various local programs
• Sales Tax Authorities ? often same as CMA, but
  not always
• Transit Agencies ? 26 agencies, but SF Muni
  carries almost half of all riders. BART carries
  20, AC Transit carries 14, and VTA carries 8
• Caltrans ? District 4 is contiguous with MTC
  region
• Bay Area Partnership brings these entities
  together to review and advise on MTC policies

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Joint Policy Committee

• Key issues identified to date
• Regional Vision and Planning
• Build upon the Regional Smart Growth Vision
• Current focus on Priority Redevelopment Areas
• Coordinate key transportation, housing, land use
  and air quality planning documents
• Implementation Strategy
• Develop effective ways to carry out regional
  policies at the local level.
• Governance
• Stronger collaboration between MTC, Association
  of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Air Quality
  Management District and Bay Conservation and
  Development Commission

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Top 10 Worst Bay AreaHighway Bottlenecks
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Growth Trends 2000-2030

• Californias population to grow 41
• Bay Areas population to grow 29

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What does this growth mean?

• Large projected increases in traffic volume
  (auto and truck) as well as transit trips.

Source MTC travel forecasts and ABAG Projections
2003
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Can We Find the Funding?
Projected 25-year revenues from 2005 Regional
Transportation Plan
Total 118 billion
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Key Federal Funds Federal Highway Administration

• Over 3.5 billion statewide per year
• STP and CMAQ suballocated to regions
• All formula funds

Acronym Key IM (Interstate Maintenance), NHS
(National Highway System), STP (Surface
Transportation Program), CMAQ (Congestion
Mitigation and Air Quality)
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SAFETEA Works in the Bay Area
SAFETEA Dollars at Work, FY 2006-09
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Key Federal Funds Federal Transit Administration

• Approximately 1 billion statewide per year
• Most formula but some discretionary funds
• New Starts funds major rail extensions in Bay
  Area, LA and San Diego

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Bay Areas Transit Expansion Program

• MTC Resolution 3434Map of Projects
• Adopted in 2001, a prioritized list of rail, bus
  and ferry improvements to serve the regions most
  congested corridors
• Basis for the Bay Areas FTA funding requests.
• Over 80 state and local funding

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Transportation for Livable Communities

• MTC provides 30 million annually in planning and
  capital grants to make communities more
  pedestrian and bicyclist friendly, and to
  promote infill developmentnear transit
  stations.
• New TODpolicy conditions3 billion in regional
  transitexpansion funds on favorable localland
  use policies.

Fruitvale Transit Village
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State Funding From Gas Pump to the Street
State Gas TaxWeight Fees
Sales Tax on Gas
Federal Gas Tax
Spillover
Prop. 42
State Highway Account
Public Transportation Account
PTA
Until FY 2008
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Caltrans Operations SHOPP
STIP
State Transit Assistance
Transit capital
Streets Roads
TCRP
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State Highway Account

• Federal and state gas tax revenue now fully
  consumed by Caltrans overhead and SHOPP
• Last increase in federal tax rate in 1993
• Last state increase in 1989
• STIP now depends on Prop. 42 and PTA funds for
  new programming

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Proposition 42/Proposition 1A

• Proposition 1A that passed on November 2006
  brought funding reliability

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Proposition 1B Transportation Bond

• Bay Area could receive over 4 billion in funding

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CTC Final Adopted CMIA Highway Projects
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Transit Bond Funds ? MTC Staff Proposal
Proposed Investment Strategy Total 419 M
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Why Freight, Why Here, Why Now?

• Port of Oakland 4th largest container Port in
  the U.S.
• Gateway to exploding Asia import trade
• expected doubling of Port capacity by 2020
• Gateway also for Central Valleys agricultural
  exports
• key economic sector for California

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Local Sales Tax Revenues Dwarf STIP

• All Bay Area counties except Napa and Solano
• 23 billion over 30 years

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BATAs Seven-Bridge System

• BATA was created in state law in 1998 to manage
  Regional Measure (RM) 1
• Responsible for administering the following
  programs
• RM1 1989 Base Toll of 1 toll to fund bridge
  operations and expansion
• RM2 2004 voter approved 1 toll hike to fund
  primarily transit expansion
• SRP 2005 transfer of seismic retrofit program
  financing and oversight

Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Opened 1956
Antioch Bridge Opened 1926 Replaced 1978
Carquinez Bridge Opened 1927, 1958 and 2003
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Opened 1936
Benicia-Martinez Bridge Opened 1962
Widened 1991
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Toll Bridge Construction Program Regional Measure
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Widened San Mateo-Hayward Bridge (2002)
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New Al Zampa (Carquinez) Bridge (2003)
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New Benicia-Martinez Bridge (2007)
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Regional Measure 2 Capital Project Program

• The RM2 funding program is primarily oriented
  towards transit alternatives
• RM2 provides partial funding to projects, balance
  provided by project sponsor
• If funding or project fails, BATA can reallocate
  funding to different project in the same bridge
  corridor

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Seismic Retrofit Construction Program
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West Approach Bay Bridge (2009)
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Bay Bridge East Span
(18 Contracts)
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MTC Programs to Improve Mobility Aiding Stranded
Motorists

• Freeway Service Patrol Program
• Team of 74 roving tow trucks that patrols more
  than 450 miles of congested freeways to aid
  stranded motorists and clear accidents quickly.
• Funded by state, federal and local funds,
  including the MTC Service for Freeways and
  Expressways (SAFE), a 1 annual vehicle
  registration fee in participating counties.
• Call Box program
• In partnership with CHP and Caltrans, MTC
  operates over 2,000 call boxes on more than
  1,100 miles of highways and expressways.

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MTC Programs to Improve Mobility Electronic
Payment Systems

• TransLink
• Smart Card for Transit Fare Payment
• AC Transit and Golden Gate Transit in operation
• FasTrak
• Electronic Toll Collection
• 635,000 Customers

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511 Traveler Information

• Traffic conditions, transit, ridesharing, bicycle
  Information
• Driving times
• Transit Trip Planner
• Road closure/detour alerts

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