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TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

January-February 2009

Plan’s Top Priority: Repair And Maintain Aging Assets

* Other includes $400 million for Lifeline Transportation serving low-income travelers and $400 million for the Transportation Climate Action Campaign.

Of the $226 billion flowing to the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area for transportation projects over the next 25 years, fully 82 percent will go toward maintaining, rehabilitating, replacing or operating the region’s mature and aging transportation assets. In terms of local streets and roads — long a problem area for the region — this level of expenditure will slow the slide toward pavement failure. It also will enable transit operators to replace all of their buses, rail cars and ferries on time.

While sustaining the existing system is uppermost on MTC’s agenda, 18 percent of the 2035 funding is set aside for strategic expansions, with the bulk of that pot, or $30 billion, going toward building out the Regional Transit Expansion Program. This blueprint calls for 140 new route miles of rail, expanded intercity express bus service along freeways throughout the region along with new bus rapid transit services in urban corridors, several new ferry routes on San Francisco Bay, and major new transit hubs in downtown San Francisco and San Jose.

Among other expenditures, MTC has committed $1 billion to help complete the on-street portion of the 2,140-mile Regional Bikeway Network detailed in the Regional Bicycle Plan, now up for review.

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