mtc commissioners

Jon Rubin, Chair Scott Haggerty

San Francisco Mayor’s Appointee Alameda County

John McLemore, Vice Chair Anne W. Halsted

Cities of Santa Clara County San Francisco Bay Conservation
Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter and Development Commission
Tom Ammiano
101 Eighth Street
City and County of San Francisco Steve Kinsey
Oakland, California 94607 Marin County and Cities
TEL (510) 464-7700 Irma L. Anderson
TDD/TTY (510) 464-7769 Cities of Contra Costa County Sue Lempert
FAX (510) 464-7848 Cities of San Mateo County
Tom Azumbrado
E-MAIL info@[Link]
U.S. Department of Housing and Michael D. Nevin
WEB [Link]
Urban Development San Mateo County

James T. Beall Jr. Bijan Sartipi

Santa Clara County State Business, Transportation

Transportation 2030 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area

and Housing Agency
Bob Blanchard
Sonoma County and Cities James P. Spering
Solano County and Cities
Mark DeSaulnier
Contra Costa County Pamela Torliatt
Association of Bay Area Governments
Bill Dodd
Napa County and Cities Shelia Young
Cities of Alameda County
Dorene M. Giacopini
U.S. Department of Transportation

FINAL
mobility
for the next generation
Transportation 2030 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area
F I N A L February 2005
 mtc commissioners
Jon Rubin, Chair Scott Haggerty
San Francisco Mayor’s Appointee Alameda County

John McLemore, Vice Chair Anne W. Halsted

Cities of Santa Clara County San Francisco Bay Conservation
Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter and Development Commission
Tom Ammiano
101 Eighth Street
City and County of San Francisco Steve Kinsey
Oakland, California 94607 Marin County and Cities
TEL (510) 464-7700 Irma L. Anderson
TDD/TTY (510) 464-7769 Cities of Contra Costa County Sue Lempert
FAX (510) 464-7848 Cities of San Mateo County
Tom Azumbrado
E-MAIL info@[Link]
U.S. Department of Housing and Michael D. Nevin
WEB [Link]
Urban Development San Mateo County

James T. Beall Jr. Bijan Sartipi

Santa Clara County State Business, Transportation

Transportation 2030 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area

and Housing Agency
Bob Blanchard
Sonoma County and Cities James P. Spering
Solano County and Cities
Mark DeSaulnier
Contra Costa County Pamela Torliatt
Association of Bay Area Governments
Bill Dodd
Napa County and Cities Shelia Young
Cities of Alameda County
Dorene M. Giacopini
U.S. Department of Transportation

FINAL
mobility
for the next generation
Transportation 2030 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area
F I N A L February 2005
 Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, California 94607
TEL (510) 464-7700
TDD/TTY (510) 464-7769
FAX (510) 464-7848
E-MAIL info@[Link]
WEB [Link]

mobility
for the next generation
Transportation 2030 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area
F I N A L February 2005
 MTC MANAGEMENT STAFF TRANSPORTATION 2030
PROJECT STAFF
Steve Heminger
Executive Director Doug Kimsey
Manager, Planning
Ann Flemer
Deputy Director, Operations Ashley Nguyen
Transportation 2030 Project Manager
Therese W. McMillan
Deputy Director, Policy Alix Bockelman, Tom Bryan, Melanie Choy,
James Corless, Jeff Georgevich, Pierce Gould,
Francis Chin Al Huerby, Doug Johnson, Valerie Knepper,
General Counsel Therese Knudsen, Nancy Okasaki, Theresa
Romell, Connie Soper, Li Zhang
Project Staff

Joe Curley
Managing Editor

John Goodwin, Steve Heminger, Brenda Kahn,

Doug Kimsey, Lisa Klein, Ashley Nguyen
Authors

Catalina Alvarado, Karin Betts, John Goodwin,

Ellen Griffin, Brenda Kahn
Assistant Editors

Catalina Alvarado, John Goodwin, Ellen Griffin,

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Verheyen (Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc.)
Public Involvement

Peter Beeler, David Cooper, Michele Stone

Graphic Production

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Maps

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Travel Data

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Design

ColorGraphics, San Francisco, CA

Printing

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The Transportation 2030 Plan also is
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table of contents
A Vision for the Future ..............1 Investments and Actions . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Santa Clara County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Adequate Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Adequate Maintenance Solano County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

System Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Potholes Ahead — More Local Sonoma County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Road Dollars Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Strategic Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Appendix Two —
Keeping Trains and MTC Transportation/
Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Buses Humming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Land-Use Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 State Highways Showing Appendix Three —

Their Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Transportation Control
Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Measures (TCMs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
System Efficiency
Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Federal TCMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Squeezing Better Mileage
Livable Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
From the Existing Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 State TCMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Clean Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Clean Air in Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Appendix Four —
Efficient Freight Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Supplementary Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Broadening Access to Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Environmental Impact Report . . . . . . . . . . 137
Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Providing a Transportation Lifeline . . . . . . 52
Transportation Air Quality Analysis . . . . . . 137
Population and Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Walk and Roll! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Project Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
The Direction of Future Growth . . . . . . . . . . 24 A Seamless Transit Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Public Outreach and Involvement
The Nature of Travel in 2030 . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Enhancing Livability by Connecting
Program — Summary Reports . . . . . . . . . 137
Transportation and Land Use . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Daily Travel Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Equity Analysis Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Getting There Safe and Sound . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Transportation Funding Outlook . . . . . . . . . . 30 Project Performance Evaluation
Strategic Expansion Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Financial Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 HOT Network Delivers Carpool Lanes Government-to-Government Consultation
The Down Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 And Congestion Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 With Native American Tribes . . . . . . . . . 139

Funding the Transportation MTC Resolution 3434: The Bay Appendix Five —
2030 Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Area’s Vision for Transit Expansion . . . . . . . 72 Related Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Moving Goods to Market. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Regional Airport System Plan . . . . . . . . . . 140

San Francisco Bay Area

Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Seaport Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Appendix One — Draft 2005 San Francisco Bay Area
Projects by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Ozone Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Bay Area Region/Multi-County . . . . . . . . . . 80 2002 High-Occupancy-Vehicle
Alameda County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 (HOV) Lane Master Plan Update . . . . . . . 142

Contra Costa County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Regional Bicycle Master Plan . . . . . . . . . . 142

Marin County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Regional Intelligent Transportation

Systems (ITS) Architecture and
Napa County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Strategic Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

San Francisco County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Regional Goods Movement Study

For the San Francisco Bay Area . . . . . . . . 142
San Mateo County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103