Metropolitan Transportation Commission

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Metropolitan Transportation Commission Bay Area
Toll Authority

• January 19, 2006
• Steve Heminger
• Executive Director
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission

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Bay Area Transportation Basics

• More than 4.5 million cars
• Some 25 transit agencies with 4,500 buses,
  railcars and ferries
• 20,000 miles of local streets and roads
• 1,400 miles of highway
• 300 miles of carpool lanes
• Eight toll bridges

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Transportation 2030 The Bay Areas New 25-year
Regional Transportation Plan

• Adopted in February 2005
• New Investment Commitments
• Transportation and Land Use
• Lifeline Transportation
• Walk and Roll

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Transportation 2030 Investment Plan

• Most of 118 billion budget are local funding
  sources

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Transportation 2030 Investment Plan
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Transportation 2030 Funding
2030 Investment Commitments

• Connecting Transportation and Land Use
• 27 million annual commitment to Transportation
  for Livable Communities/Housing Incentive Program
  (TLC/HIP)
• New Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Policy
  includes funding station-area plans

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Transportation 2030 Funding
2030 Investment Commitments

• Providing a Transportation Lifeline
• New 216 million Lifeline Transportation Program
  for Bay Areas low-income communities
• Patterned after MTCs successful LIFT program
• MTC has asked county CMAs to take lead
• Call for Projects antici-pated in March 2006

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Transportation 2030 Funding
2030 Investment Commitments

• Walk and Roll!
• 200 million for bicycle and pedestrian
  improvements throughout the region
• In June 2005, MTC allocated first installment
  worth 8 million for 11 bike lane, sidewalk and
  school safety projects

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MTC-ABAG-BAAQMD Joint Policy Committee Key
Priorities

• MTC Resolution 3434 Transit-Oriented Development
  Policy
• Report to the Legislature on the consolidation
  of ABAG and MTC functions
• Regional Blueprint Planning Grant

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Intelligent Technology Solutions

• Electronic Payment Systems
• 511 Traveler Information Services

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Electronic Payment Systems

• TransLink
• Smart Card for Transit Fare Payment
• FasTrakTM
• Electronic Toll Collection

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TransLink Smart Card

• Deployment Schedule
• Spring 2006
• AC Transit
• Golden Gate Transit
• Late 2006
• SF Muni
• BART

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FasTrak Deployment

• Golden Gate Bridge and State operated two
  separate systems prior to 2002.
• Transponders interoperable on all bridges
• FasTrak in peak period
• GG Bridge 70
• State 30
• Successful launch of new customer service center
  (June 2005)

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FasTrakTM Accounts
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511 Traveler Information

• Traffic conditions, transit, ridesharing, bicycle
  information
• Driving times service
• Transit Trip Planner
• Fastrak toll tag readers as data source
• 511 system well used today
• Over 600,000 visits to 511.org
• Over 400,000 calls to 511
• Over 300,000 uses by ISPs

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511 Driving Times Coverage
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Real Time Transit Information

• MTC and RM2 Grant Recipients San Francisco Muni,
  AC Transit, Caltrain/SamTrans, VTA, Golden Gate
  Transit, WestCat, LAVTA, Emery Go-Round
• The program will collect real-time transit
  arrival predictions from all partner agencies
  into a central, regional data repository.
• The repository will disseminate the information
  to the 511 phone and web systems, regional
  signage, and interested transit partners.
• Currently, the 511 phone system provides a demo
  for Munis light-rail and historic streetcars.
• Plan to incorporate information from other
  agencies as available.

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What is BATA?

• The responsibility for the administration,
  operation and upkeep of the seven state-owned
  bridges that span the Bay is shared by the
  Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), in
  its role as the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA),
  and the California Department of Transportation
  (Caltrans).
• The seven state-owned bridges are the Antioch,
  Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton,
  Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay
  and San Mateo-Hayward bridges.

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Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program

• Assembly Bill 144 by Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley)
  was signed by the Governor on July 18, 2005
• AB 144 outlines a funding agreement to complete
  the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program, and
  calls for raising Bay Area bridge tolls by 1 (to
  4 for autos) starting January 1, 2007.
• AB 144 allows construction to move forward on the
  single tower, self-anchored suspension (SAS)
  span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

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BATAs Expanded Responsibilities

• In August 2005 the California Legislature
  expanded BATAs responsibilities to include
  administration of all toll revenue and joint
  oversight of the toll bridge construction program
  with Caltrans and the California Transportation
  Commission.

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Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Projects
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RM1 Projects
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Key Information Resource

• MTC Website www.mtc.ca.gov

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