Bay Bridge

MTC/BATA Resolution Adopting Final East Span Recommendations (June 24, 1998)

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This resolution approves the extension of the seismic retrofit surcharge to pay for Bay Bridge amenities.

Further discussion of this resolution is contained in the Executive Director's memorandum on Bay Bridge Design Task Force Recommendations dated June 17, 1998. Also see MTC/Bay Area Toll Authority Motion on Transbay Terminal - 6/24/98.

BAY AREA TOLL AUTHORITY RESOLUTION NO. 10

WHEREAS, Streets and Highways Code Section 30950 creates the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA), which is the same as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC); and

WHEREAS, Streets and Highways Code Sections 30950 et seq. transfers to BATA certain California Transportation Commission and California Department of Transportation (Department) duties and responsibilities for the bridges owned and operated by the Department in the San Francisco Bay Area; and

WHEREAS, the bridges subject to this transfer of duties and responsibilities are defined in Streets and Highways Code Section 30910 to include the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Richmond-San Rafael, Dumbarton, San Mateo-Hayward, and San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridges; and

WHEREAS, Streets and Highways Code Section 31010 imposes a seismic retrofit surcharge of one dollar ($1) per vehicle for passage on the Bay Area toll bridges defined above; and

WHEREAS, Streets and Highways Code Section 31015 authorizes BATA to request funding for certain amenities associated with the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge defined to include (1) a design of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge that costs more than the cost of a single tower cable-suspension bridge selected by the Department, (2) replacement or relocation of the transbay bus terminal in the City and County of San Francisco, and (3) bicycle or pedestrian access on the new eastern span, and requires the Department to include any of the amenities requested by BATA if sufficient funds generated by the seismic retrofit surcharge are available to fully pay for those amenities; and

WHEREAS, Streets and Highways Code Section 31050(a)(2) permits the extension of the seismic retrofit surcharge by up to two additional years to pay for the amenities requested by BATA; and

WHEREAS, a two-year extension is estimated by BATA to generate approximately two hundred thirty million dollars ($230,000,000); and

WHEREAS, since February 1997, MTC's and subsequently BATA's Bay Bridge Design Task Force (Task Force) has conducted extensive public outreach and reviewed the advice of the Department staff, private design teams retained by the Department, and an engineering and design advisory panel (EDAP) composed of bridge engineers, architects, and geologists in order to develop recommendations to BATA regarding Bay Bridge eastern span amenities; and

WHEREAS, on July 30, 1997, MTC adopted planning and design recommendations to guide the development of the design of the new eastern span and amenities; and

WHEREAS, on June 10, 1998, EDAP provided the Task Force with its recommendations after completion of 30 percent of the design of the new eastern span; and

WHEREAS, on June 22, 1998, the Task Force, guided by the planning and design recommendations previously adopted by MTC, and EDAP's recommendations, met and recommends extending for 14.7 months the seismic retrofit surcharge on Bay Area bridges to generate an estimated one hundred forty one million dollars ($141,000,000) to pay for certain amenities, listed in Attachment A to this resolution and incorporated herein as though set forth in full; and

WHEREAS, the Task Force recommends a number of other actions and future actions regarding additional amenities and bridge design; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that BATA approves the extension of the seismic retrofit surcharge by 14 months and 3 weeks to generate an estimated $141,000,000 to pay for the Bay Bridge eastern span amenities included in Attachment A of this Resolution; and, be it further

RESOLVED, BATA supports the recommendation that the pile caps for the piers supporting the connecting section of the new bridge be placed above water, with careful attention to the design, and authorizes the Task Force and EDAP to provide continuing design oversight of the remaining design phase for the new eastern span, including, not but not limited to, the following key issues: the Yerba Buena Island transition and possible replacement ramps, the design of the causeway section of the bridge, and the Oakland touchdown; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the BATA Executive Director is directed to take all actions necessary within his authority to carry out the recommendations included herein; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the BATA staff is directed to distribute copies of this Resolution to the Director of the Department, the Department's District 04 Director, members of the Bay Area state legislative and congressional delegations, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and members of EDAP.

BAY AREA TOLL AUTHORITY

James P. Spering, Chair

The above resolution was entered into by the Bay Area Toll Authority at a regular meeting of the Authority held in Oakland, California on June 24, 1998.

Attachment A
BATA Resolution No. 10

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Replacement Project

1. The new eastern span should have a single-tower self-anchored steel suspension long span at Yerba Buena Island with a variable depth concrete causeway connecting the long span to the Oakland shore.

Incremental cost: $91 million from the extension of the seismic retrofit surcharge
Toll surcharge extension: 9.5 months

2. The new eastern span should have bicycle/pedestrian access permanently guaranteed with a single bicycle/pedestrian path 15.5 feet wide and 1 foot above deck level on the south side of the eastbound deck.

Incremental cost: $50 million from the extension of the seismic retrofit surcharge
Toll surcharge extension: 5.2 months

Total period of toll surcharge extension - 14.7 months (14 months and 3 weeks)

See MTC/Bay Area Toll Authority Motion on Transbay Terminal - 6/24/98.