SFMTA

Meetings

5/23 MTC Meeting Wrap-Up: Commission Offers Support for Proposed BART TOD Policy, Approves Pilot Program Offering Fare Discounts for Low-Income Transit Riders

May 24, 2018 By Julie Teglovic
MTC Commission and staff sitting in the board room.
Noah Berger

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 23. Highlights included the Commission offering a "Support and Seek Amendments" position on a State Assembly bill related to BART transit-oriented development (prompting a lively debate on regional housing and local zoning control), as well as approval of a pilot program that will provide 20 percent fare discounts to low-income adults on several major Bay Area transit operators.

Read on for all the Commission actions of the day, as well as links to the video recording of the meeting and all the handouts. Read More

Related
Affordable Housing
BART
BATA
CalTrain
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
Housing
Housing Development
Legislation
MTC
Means-Based Transit Fare Pricing Study
Regional Measure 2
SFMTA
Transit-Oriented Development
Meetings

3/28 Meeting Previews: BATA, MTC and CASA Technical Committee

March 26, 2018 By Julie Teglovic
The interior of the Bay area Metro Center Board Room is shown, seen from behind three rows of chairs facing the front of the room. The room is empty.

Three meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, March 28, starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Bay Area Metro Center. Some highlights include a a proposed amendment to Plan Bay Area 2040 and the amended 2017 TIP (attachment), priorities for Round 3 of the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program (attachment), funds for the North-South Greenway Project and the SMART Multi-Use Pathway in Marin County (attachment), decision-making tools and Work Group Action Plans from CASA (attachment), and much more.

Continue reading on to find links to all meeting agendas, meeting packets and key background materials. Tune in to the meetings live on Wednesday morning at https://mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/meetings/live-webcasts. Read More

Related
CASA
Cap and Trade
Community-Based Transportation Plans
Congestion Management
One Bay Area Grant (OBAG)
Priority Conservation Area
SFMTA
SMART train
State Transit Assistance (STA)
Transportation Authority of Marin
VTA
Transportation

New Light Rail Vehicles Come to San Francisco, Plus the Wilderness of Transportation Finance

December 8, 2017 By Chirag Rabari

The City of San Francisco is celebrating a major milestone with a once-in-a-generation new light rail train now in service, as shown in the above video from our partners at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni).  Muni reports:

These… trains are more comfortable, reliable, and rider-friendly. They include a new seating configuration that will provide wider aisles for more capacity, better customer signage, quieter cars and improved design that will reduce delays.  This new car represents the first of more than 200 vehicles that will add more train service that will reduce congestion, improve service frequency and overall service for hundreds of thousands of daily riders.

So: as the nine-county Bay Area’s transportation financing agency, did MTC help pay for these new vehicles? The answer is: yes, mostly, and then not exactly, and then mostly again… but… it’s complicated.

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Esoteric transportation finance wonkery to follow. Read More

Related
Bridge Tolls
FTA
Financing
Light Rail Transit
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
New Starts
SFMTA
San Francisco Central Subway Project