Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)

Draft 2013 TIP

Draft 2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Adoption Postponed

Adoption of the region’s 2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is being postponed to more closely align with development and adoption of Plan Bay Area, the region’s long-range transportation and housing plan. Plan Bay Area is currently slated for adoption in 2013. The change in schedule is being made in response to public comments that suggested that the TIP, a short-range transportation programming document, should better align with Plan Bay Area.

Staff intends to make corresponding changes to the Draft 2013 TIP in tandem with Plan Bay Area. The revised 2013 TIP adoption schedule will provide additional opportunities for public review.

MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee will receive an update on the Draft 2013 TIP at their September 12, 2012 meeting. See link below for more information:
http://apps.mtc.ca.gov/meeting_packet_documents/agenda_1923/4a_2013_TIP_Deferral.pdf

Should you have any questions or concerns about the postponement of the TIP adoption, please email or call Sri Srinivasan (email: ssrinivasan@mtc.ca.gov; Call: 510-817-5793) or Adam Crenshaw (email: acrenshaw@mtc.ca.gov; Call: 510-817-5794). For more information on Plan Bay Area, please visit: www.onebayarea.org, or call 510-817-5757.

DRAFT 2013 TIP PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has released the Draft 2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and Draft Transportation-Air Quality Conformity Analysis for public comment. The comment period started Friday, June 22, 2012, and closed on Thursday, August 2, 2012. A public hearing to receive public testimony on both documents was conducted during MTC’s Programming & Allocations Committee, on Wednesday, July 11, 2012.

Background

The federally required TIP is a comprehensive listing of surface transportation capital projects for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area that receive federal funds or are subject to a federally required action or are regionally significant. The MTC, as the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the San Francisco Bay Area region, prepares and adopts the TIP at least once every four years. The TIP covers a four-year period and must be financially constrained by year, meaning that the amount of dollars committed to the projects (also referred to as “programmed”) must not exceed the amount of dollars estimated to be available. The Draft 2013 TIP includes projects “programmed” in four fiscal years: FY 2012-13, FY 2013-14, FY 2015-16 and FY 2016-17. The TIP must include a financial plan that demonstrates the programmed projects can be implemented, and must be accompanied by a transportation-air quality conformity analysis.

MTC has developed the Draft 2013 TIP and Draft Conformity Analysis in cooperation with the county Congestion Management Agencies, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), individual cities, counties, transit operators, and other project sponsors, and in consultation with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). All projects included in the TIP are consistent with the long-range Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), the Transportation 2035 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area.

Per federal conformity regulations, the TIP, along with the Transportation 2035 Plan, was analyzed by MTC to determine if it is consistent with or conforms to the approved federal State Implementation Plan (SIP), or meets other emissions tests for criteria pollutants and precursors for which the Bay Area air basin is designated as a nonattainment or maintenance area. This includes ground-level ozone, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter.

The Draft 2013 TIP contains approximately 900 projects totaling about $11.2 billion. The TIP is also financially constrained – meaning that the amount of funding programmed does not exceed the amount of funding reasonably expected to be available. Please find below the draft TIP and conformity documentation.

Copies of the Draft 2013 TIP and Draft Transportation-Air Quality Conformity Analysis are available for review at the MTC-ABAG Library, 101 Eighth Street, Oakland, California and at major public libraries (PDF) in each of the Bay Area counties. For more information, or for the location of the library closest to you, call MTC’s Public Information Office at 510-817-5757.

Prior to the formal consideration of the 2013 TIP and Transportation-Air Quality Conformity Analysis, MTC will hold a public hearing and receive public comments.