Senate Select Committee on California Infrastructure Senator Tom Torlakson, Chair

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• Senate Select Committee on California
  Infrastructure Senator Tom Torlakson, Chair

• December 7, 2005
• Therese W. McMillan, MTC Deputy Executive
  Director, Policy

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Traffic Congestion Persists

• Bay Area drivers made an estimated 21 million
  trips
• Length of average trip increased 25.6 minutes in
  1990 to 29.4 minutes in 2000
• Recent dip in traffic congestion is
  recession-related

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Commuters Crisscross Region

• Top 3 corridors with increase in daily trips
• 116 increase in daily trips over I-680/Sunol
  Grade between Alameda and Santa Clara counties
• 90 increase on I-580 corridor between Alameda
  and Central Valley counties
• 68 increase on Routes 12 29 from Napa and
  Solano counties

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Making the Down PaymentProjected 25-Year
Revenues for Financially Constrained Element

• 118 billion spending plan is primarily focused
  on maintaining and operating the existing
  transportation system

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More Potholes Ahead

• 16.7 billion in roadway maintenance costs
• 10.6 billion in revenues available as down
  payment
• Results in 6.1 billion shortfall

• Strengthen Prop. 42
• Strengthen Prop. 42 to ensure gasoline tax
  revenues are directed to transportation
• The Problem is Bigger than Prop. 42 Alone.
• Years of neglect have left our transportation
  system in a state of disrepair.

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Keep Trains and Buses Humming

• 16.7 billion in transit capital costs
• 13.4 billion in revenues available as down
  payment
• Results in 2.8 billion shortfall

• Strengthen Prop. 42
• Strengthen Prop. 42 to ensure gasoline tax
  revenues are directed to transportation
• Promote efficiency
• Consider institutional and functional transit
  consolidation measures that improve efficiency

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State Highways Showing Their Age

• 14 billion in State highway maintenance costs
• 7 billion in revenues available as down payment
• Results in 7 billion shortfall

• MTC Supports more SHOPP Funding
• Delays in maintenance will increase cost of
  roadway repairs
• However, directing more funding to SHOPP
  addresses repair needs, but leaves less State
  funding for expansion projects
• SB 1024 would bring money into the STIP and repay
  past loans

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Squeezing Better Mileage from Existing Network

• Use Technology to Improve the Commute
• Install and operate traffic monitoring systems,
  ramp metering and traffic signal timing to
  improve traffic flow
• Implement real-time communications systems to
  clear incidents quickly
• Provide commuters travel-time reliability to make
  their lives better

• 742 million needed to deploy Regional Operations
  Program
• 329 million in revenues available as down
  payment
• Results in 413 million shortfall

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HOT Network Delivers Carpool Lanes and
Congestion Insurance

• HOV lanes shave 15-20 minutes off peak commutes,
  offering commuters a way to beat congestion
• Express buses use HOV lanes to bypass traffic and
  provide faster, more reliable service
• HOT lanes introduce pricing element into highway
  use by giving solo drivers option to pay to
  bypass congestion

• Regional HOT Lane Network
• I-680 Smart Carpool Lane implementation set for
  2009 start-up
• MTC and Caltrans to lead Regional HOT Lane
  Analysis beginning of 2006

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Moving Goods to Market

• I-880 Corridor Improvements
• Deploy ITS and operational strategies
• I-580 Corridor Improvements
• Truck climbing lanes inland rail/barges truck
  toll lanes
• I-80 Corridor Improvements
• I-80/680 interchange
• US 101 Peninsula
• Operational improvements
• Southern Gateway
• SR 152/156 improvements

• Over 37 percent of Bay Area economic output is
  manufacturing, freight transportation, and
  warehouse and distribution businesses
• 80 percent of freight movement occurs on freeway
  corridors, especially I-880, U.S. 101 and I-80
  corridors, followed by rail and air cargo
• Port of Oakland facilitates maritime freight
  movement, but is increasingly constrained due to
  congestion problems

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Resolution 3434 Bay Areas Vision for Transit
Expansion

• MTC Resolution 3434 identifies nine new rail
  extensions, express buses, ferry service, and
  enhancements to existing rail and bus corridors
• Success of these transit investments depends on
  many factors, including supportive land uses

• Transit Expansion Needed to Meet Regional
  Population and Job Growth Projections
• MTC adopted TOD policy in July 2005
• MTC also committed 2.5 million to support
  partners in station area planning efforts

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Enhancing Livability by Connecting Transportation
And Land Use

• Nearly 2 million people and 1.4 million jobs to
  be added to Bay Area
• Partnerships amongst regional and local agencies
  needed to facilitate integration of
  transportation and land use
• Joint Policy Committee formed to
  coordinateregional planning efforts and pursue
  implementation of the Smart Growth Vision,
  which was adopted in 2002

• Provide More Land-Use Planning Funds to Partners
• MTC provides local planning funds through T-PLUS
• The key to effective transportation is adequate
  housing in the right places.

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• Senate Select Committee on California
  Infrastructure Senator Tom Torlakson, Chair

• Copies of this presentation can be downloaded
  from MTCs website at http//www.mtc.ca.gov