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TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

June/July 2005

Commission Actions
April/May 2005

  • Approved a plan for spending the $27.3 million in Regional Measure 2 (RM 2) operating funds available in fiscal 2005–06, including $1.8 million to beef up “owl service” along BART corridors. The money will fund the operation of new and existing bus lines during the late-night hours when BART is closed. Other highlights include $8.6 million to cover Regional Express Bus operating expenses, $3 million for enhanced bus service on the Telegraph-International Boulevard corridor, $2.5 million to op-erate San Francisco Muni’s 3rd Street light-rail extension and $5.7 million for interagency transit fare payment coordination through the TransLink® smart-card program. RM 2 funds are derived from a voter-approved $1 toll hike that went into effect on the region’s state-owned bridges in July of 2004.
  • Shifted $15 million in state and federal funding to accelerate delivery of the Lifeline Transportation Program, which seeks to eliminate transportation gaps and barriers affecting low-income residents. Also adopted guidelines that delegate Lifeline Transportation Program administration to county-level congestion management agencies.
    MTC Resolutions 3536-Revised, 3547-Revised, 3615-Revised, 3625-Revised and 3699
  • Adopted a resolution congratulating the Bay Area Air Quality Management Dis-trict on the occasion of the agency’s 50th anniversary. In the words of the resolution, “Thanks in great part to the Air District’s efforts, Bay Area air quality has steadily improved over the past 50 years, with the data showing that 2004 was the cleanest year since the start of air quality monitoring in the 1960s — notwithstanding population growth of 2.3 million people and the addition of 2.5 million motor vehicles since 1969.”
    MTC Resolution 3706
  • Acting as the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA), allocated $36.3 million from project contingency funds for the new Benicia-Martinez span to keep construction moving forward in the face of unanticipated cost overruns.
    BATA Resolution 49

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