Regional Transit Expansion Program

As part of the 2001 update to the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), MTC developed an associated Regional Transit Expansion Program. Adopted as Resolution No. 3434, the new program is a successor to MTC Resolution No. 1876 adopted in 1988, a multiyear rail expansion program that has delivered new BART service to Dublin and Bay Point in the East Bay, the Tasman light-rail extension in Silicon Valley, and the BART extension to the San Francisco International Airport, expected to open in 2002.

In April 2001, MTC adopted criteria for identifying and prioritizing bus and rail transit projects for inclusion in the Regional Transit Expansion Program (Resolution No. 3357). MTC's preliminary evaluation of candidate projects submitted is contained in a report -- Regional Transit Expansion Policy: Initial Assessment -- published in conjunction with the release of the Draft 2001 RTP, in August 2001. An additional detailed criteria evaluation was published on October 12, 2001.

On November 9, 2001, the Commission's Planning and Operations Committee released for public comment an updated criteria evaluation and a recommended program of rail and transit projects. Resolution No. 3434, detailing a list of priority projects and funding agreements, was adopted on December 19, 2001.

Click here to download (in Word format) the memorandum that outlines the criteria, as embodied in the RTEP (Resolution No. 3357), and the methodology for applying the criteria to the candidate RTEP projects.

Click here to view (in Excel format) the draft evaluation matrix for each candidate RTEP project. Background information detailing how each project scores with respect to the financial and performance-based criteria is included in three supplemental worksheets.