SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY Shaping Investments for San Francisco s Transportation Future The 2017 San Francisco Transportation Plan (SFTP) Update Provide world-class infrastructure and service Strengthen the city s economic competitiveness Ensure a healthy environment Fact Sheet LAST UPDATED October 2017 Create a more livable city The goal areas of the SFTP, identified through Board, partner agency, and community input. What is the SFTP? The SFTP is the countywide, longrange investment and policy blueprint for San Francisco s multimodal transportation system. Through detailed data analysis, interagency collaboration, and public involvement, the Transportation Authority evaluated ways to improve our system with the resources we have, and with potential new revenues. The SFTP recommends a diverse investment plan that makes meaningful progress towards our important goals: safe and livable neighborhoods, economic competitiveness, world-class infrastructure, and environmental health, with a focus on promoting equity across all performance areas. It also recommends policy changes that depart from business as usual and will help us make the most out of our investments. The Transportation Authority Board adopts the SFTP to establish the city s transportation priorities and position San Francisco for regional, state, and federal funding. What is the SFTP Update? This minor update builds off the plan passed in 2013. The 2017 SFTP Update reaffirms the 2013 plan s goals, policy recommendations, and investment plan with its strong emphasis on fix-it-first projects such as street repair and replacing worn out rail and damaged sidewalks to ensure our existing transit and roadway infrastructure is well-maintained, safe and reliable balanced with strategic capacity expanding projects (e.g. increasing the size of transit fleets) and enhancements to achieve livability and economic competitiveness goals for current and future San Franciscans. The 2017 SFTP Update recommendations have been incorporated in the statemandated update to Plan Bay Area, the Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy adopted in July 2017. Plan Bay Area, in turn, includes funding and policy recommendations that will help us advance our vision for the City s transportation system. For instance, Plan Bay Area prioritizes funding to address transit crowding and reliability issues in the Transbay and Muni Metro corridors critical travel corridors that support San Francisco and the region s economic vitality and quality of life. Contact Us Web site: www.sfcta.org/sftp Email: camille.guiriba@sfcta.org San Francisco County Transportation Authority 1455 Market Street, 22nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103
THE INVESTMENT PLAN AND SF INVESTMENT VISION $74.5B COMMITTED $85B INVESTMENT PLAN $9.6B DISCRETIONARY $92.9B INVESTMENT VISION $7.9B DISCRETIONARY SOURCES OF COMMITTED REVENUES IN INVESTMENT PLAN Federal: $4.6 State: $5.8 SOURCES OF DISCRETIONARY REVENUES IN INVESTMENT PLAN 10-cent Regional Gas Tax (SF Share): $0.44 Bridge Toll Increase: $0.83 SOURCES OF ADDITIONAL DISCRETIONARY REVENUES IN INVESTMENT VISION Private Sector Funds: $0.50 Parcel Tax: $0.50 Local: $60.3 Regional: $4.7 Discretionary from Existing Sources: $6.30 Unspecified: $2.0 Additional Half-Cent Sales Tax: $4.00 Vehicle License Fee: $2.10 General Obligation Bonds: $0.80 PLAN REVENUES BY SOURCE (IN BILLIONS OF YEAR-OF-EXPENDITURE DOLLARS THROUGH 2040) Investment Scenarios and Major Categories of Spending The 2013 SFTP included two recommended transportation investment scenarios to help us achieve the Plan goals. One scenario (the Investment Plan) was financially constrained, based on existing and anticipated new revenues. The second scenario (the Investment Vision) builds on the Investment Plan and shows what else we could achieve if we assume additional new revenues are available for transportation. Both the Investment Plan and the Investment Vision scenarios are reaffirmed through this 2017 update. The updated scenarios are consistent with the latest Plan Bay Area process and make minor updates to reflect changes in revenue projections, project costs, and scopes. The 2013 SFTP investment scenarios group project recommendations into the following three categories: ONGOING MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS FUNDING. Each investment scenario recommends funding levels for the ongoing maintenance and operations of our street network and transit system. The vast majority of funding in the SFTP is dedicated to this category. This category includes projects like roadway repaving, traffic signal maintenance, and buying new transit vehicles to replace ones that have reached the end of their useful life. TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM AND ENHANCEMENTS. This category includes funding for seven transportation programs that improve safety, and expand or enhance the transportation system through small-to-medium scale improvements for all modes. The seven programs are Walking and Traffic Calming, Bicycling, Regional Transit Enhancements, Muni Enhancements and Customer First Treatments, Street and Signal Upgrades and Street Network Development, Transportation Demand Management, and Equity. EFFICIENCY AND EXPANSION PROJECTS. This category recommends funding for a list of major capital projects and programs that would improve the efficiency of the existing system or cost-effectively expand system capacity. These include projects such as the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit project. Project Cost and Evaluation Update While we are making progress in securing new revenues, San Francisco s transportation needs continue to exceed available revenues. Working with local and regional partners, we reassessed San Francisco s transportation needs as part of the 2017 SFTP and parallel Plan Bay Area update. We updated the costs for all the projects and programs in the Investment Plan and Investment Vision. Generally, we observed increasing costs in the following areas: state of good repair, operations and maintenance for transit and local streets (deferred maintenance often costs more to address) and capital projects (as project development progresses, estimated costs often increase to reflect refinements to project definition and sometimes inclusion of additional scope elements). We also revisited the project performance evaluation with consideration for updated costs and scopes, and new projects. Even those projects with significant cost increases still performed well enough to remain in the Investment Plan. Both the Investment Plan and Vision Plan remain substantially the same as in the 2013 SFTP.
Existing and Future Conditions and Trends Despite the successes in these first four years of implementing a 25-plus year investment plan, needs remain in all areas considering current conditions and new trends that are challenging our existing transportation system: Residential and employment growth has been booming in San Francisco since 2010, and this growth is projected to increase steadily into the future. Under the Plan Bay Area preferred scenario adopted by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), San Francisco is anticipated to increase in size by 137,000 new households and 295,000 new jobs by 2040. More people and jobs has resulted in more people on transit. Our roads and freeways are also becoming more congested. In 2015, we saw that 8.6% of all miles driven in San Francisco were in congestion, whereas the region as a whole experienced only 5.7% of total miles in congestion. Emerging mobility services and technologies are rapidly altering the transportation landscape. For example, transportation networking companies (TNCs) make more than 170,000 trips within San Francisco on a typical weekday, representing an estimated 15% of all intra-city trips. GROWTH IN AVERAGE WEEKDAY RIDERSHIP BETWEEN 2010 AND 2016 120,000 70% In riders In 59% percent 98,41098,410 100,000 45% 80,000 59% 60% 50% 45% 40% 60,000 49,300 49,300 30% 23% 40,000 23% 28,296 20,000 20% 28,296 10% 7%7% 4,795 0 Muni BART 4,795 Caltrain 0% WETA HISTORICAL TREND FOR SHARE OF HIGHWAY MILES TRAVELED IN CONGESTION 10% San Francisco County Bay Area 8% 6% 4% 2% 0% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
What s Next? New Planning Efforts Moving forward, more research should be conducted, and new policies and planning efforts should be engaged to figure out how to best address new and emerging trends and technologies into our transportation vision. Some efforts in progress or beginning soon include: BAY AREA CORE CAPACITY TRANSIT STUDY: an inter-agency effort to identify investments and improvements that will increase transit capacity and reduce transit crowding in San Francisco s core, which includes portions of the Financial District, SoMa, Mid-Market, and Mission Bay Neighborhoods and the Transbay corridor. SAN FRANCISCO FREEWAY CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT STUDY: the Transportation Authority led exploration of strategies to manage travel in the US 101 and I-280 corridors in San Francisco. EMERGING MOBILITY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES: A series of studies initiated by the Transportation Authority that will inventory services in San Francisco, create a set of guiding principles, evaluate the services and develop policy recommendations. TREASURE ISLAND AUTONOMOUS SHUTTLE PILOT: Thanks to a federal grant, the project will procure, test, deploy, and evaluate an autonomous shuttle to serve as the first/last mile connection between the Treasure Island Transit Hub and the neighborhoods on Treasure and Yerba Buena islands. CONNECTSF: a multi-agency effort that seeks to define a 50-year vision of San Francisco s future that represents our priorities, goals and aspirations as a city and part of the region. The ConnectSF vision will help guide followon studies and the next major update of the SFTP (SFTP 2050). New Revenue Advocacy We continue to strongly support efforts to pursue additional transportation revenues at all levels of government and will work with MTC and other agencies to advocate for a greater share of regional, state and federal dollars. Three new revenue advocacy efforts that are presently underway: CALTRAIN SALES TAX: SB 797 (Hill), if approved, would authorize a potential 1/8-cent sales tax ballot measure for San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties to fund operating and capital needs for the rail service. REGIONAL MEASURE 3 BRIDGE TOLLS: SB 595 (Beall), if approved, would authorize a potential $1 3 toll increase for the region s seven state-owned toll bridges (except the Golden Gate Bridge). It would focus on transportation projects and programs that improve mobility and enhance travel options in the toll bridge corridors. SAN FRANCISCO TRANSPORTATION TASK FORCE 2045: a group convened to address transportation needs, gaps and local revenue options over the next quarter century, aiming for a local ballot measure in the 2018 election cycle. PHOTO CREDITS Uncredited photos are from the SFCTA photo library. Photos with links are made available via Flickr Commons. Follow URL for use and licensing information. Front page, Muni Metro: 2017 SFMTA p. 3: High-rise construction: Sergio Ruis, https://flic.kr/p/qhonpp Muni Metro car: Trobakhopper, https://flic.kr/p/dm9xkd US 101 congestion: Sergio Ruiz, https://flic.kr/p/el76rq Insert: Late Night: Freeside, https://flic.kr/p/qjnrl2 Child Transportatio:, Michael Emery, all rights reserved Muni Metro: Daniel Hoherd, https://flic.kr/p/egysz6 SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 1455 Market Street, 22nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 tel 415.522.4800 fax 415.522.4829 email info@sfcta.org web www.sfcta.org
SFTP Progress Since 2013 Investments Bearing Fruit: Implementation Since the Adoption of SFTP 2013 Since the adoption of the 2013 SFTP, we ve achieved key milestones and progress in the three major expenditure categories identified in the plan. The below projects illustrate these accomplishments: ONGOING OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FUNDING New SFMTA buses and light rail vehicles I-80/Yerba Buena Island Interchange 464 buses already in service 4 light rail vehicles tested 116 paratransit vehicles ordered and in service Near completion of Transbay Transit Center: Phase 1 of the Transbay Transit Program Presidio Parkway Citywide Street Resurfacing TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM AND ENHANCEMENTS Key bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects: Bicycle & pedestrian facilities on Mansell Street through McLaren Park Protected bicycle facilities on 7th & 8th Streets and 13th/Division Street Barrier protected bicycle bike lane on San Jose Avenue Key bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects: Intersection improvements at 7th & Lincoln Vision Zero projects: Groundbreakings for complete streets projects on Broadway, Potrero Avenue and Polk Street. Pedestrian safety upgrades near Tenderloin Elementary School Safety upgrades on Arguello Boulevard EFFICIENCY AND EXPANSION PROJECTS Start of construction for Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Muni Forward transit service improvements for: 5-Fulton 10-Townsend 14-Mission Completion of tunneling work for Central Subway Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency (TIMMA) Program established Caltrain Electrification
Complementing capital project delivery, the Transportation Authority, City departments, and regional transit agencies have also engaged in many planning efforts to address new issues. A few planning efforts completed or initiated since the adoption of the 2013 SFTP include: MUNI STRATEGY: assessing and creating action strategies to address Muni service performance in low-income and minority neighborhoods TRANSPORTATION SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM: city-wide approach to manage transportation impacts of new development. NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM: Prop K grants funded community-based planning efforts aimed to address SFTP priorities especially improving mobility for Communities of Concern, other underserved neighborhoods and vulnerable populations. Examples include the Alemany Interchange Improvement Study and Western Addition Community-Based Transportation Plan both of which have secured funding to start implementing the recommendations. SFMTA RAIL CAPACITY STRATEGY: evaluated at near-term transit improvements to increase capacity of the rail network. LATE NIGHT TRANSPORTATION PLAN: a study of needs and recommendations to improve service, accessibility, reliability and safety for those who are working or playing after nightfall or before daybreak. CHILD TRANSPORTATION STUDY: an in-depth look at school transportation issues in San Francisco. New Transportation Revenue Sources Progress has also been made in establishing new sources of funding for transportation. Since the 2013 SFTP s release, voters and legislators have approved new revenue measures that have increased the amount of funding available to transportation: Prop A: San Francisco Transportation and Road Improvement General Obligation Bond (2014) Prop B: Adjusting Transportation Funding for Population Growth General Fund set-aside (2014) State Cap and Trade Program Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) (2015) BART Bond (2016) Senate Bill 1 (2017)