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At the July 23 Transportation Authority Board meeting, board members approved the final group of five-year Prop L project investments, also known as Five-Year Prioritization Programs or 5YPPs, programming Prop L funds to projects of the voter-approved Prop L half-cent sales tax. In all, we have programmed $552.5 million in Prop L funds to projects over the next five years. Since July 2023, the Board has allocated $155.9 million to projects across the city and to regional systems like BART, Caltrain, Bay Ferry, and freeways.
The 5YPPs are multi-year project lists that support a steady project pipeline for city and transit agencies, enabling them to plan ahead and coordinate efficiently between projects. The 5YPPs also provide transparency to the public about how Prop L funds are planned to be spent. The board must approve a 5YPP for each of the 28 voter approved sales tax programs before they can grant funds to projects from that program.
Prop L programs reflect program-wide and select program specific criteria such as transportation benefits in ConnectSF goal areas (equity, safety), cost effectiveness, readiness, and leveraging of federal and state funds. See here for more background on Prop L.
Prop L programming highlights for the inaugural five-years of the transportation sales tax program reflect a range of improvements from transit, to safer and complete streets and neighborhood planning:
The Portal. $300 million for this signature project to extend Caltrain and future High Speed Rail from Fourth/King to Salesforce Transit Center. In May, the Federal Transit Administration committed $3.4 billion to the project from the Capital Investment Grant program.
Safer and Complete Streets Program. $47.3 million for implementation projects that improve safety and comfort of our streets, including $10 million for the School Traffic Calming Program.
Neighborhood Transportation Program. Prop L continues this popular sales tax funded program, with $8.7 million programmed for community-based, neighborhood-scale planning and seed funding to develop and implement transportation capital projects identified in those plans.
Equity Priority Transportation Program. This is a new program in Prop L that funds community-based planning and capital projects in underserved neighborhoods as well as citywide equity evaluations and planning efforts targeting improvements for vulnerable populations such as seniors or the disabled. This $3.8 million program will fund Community-Based Transportation Plans and implementation of recommendations arising from those plans, including Visitacion Valley and Brotherhood Way.
Muni, BART, Caltrain, Ferry Maintenance. A total of $137.9 million has been programmed for transit maintenance projects. Key projects include $42.3 million for new buses and $17.7 million for Potrero Yard Modernization. In addition, later this year we will amend the Muni Maintenance 5YPP to program the remaining $47 million for Muni projects.
Maintenance funding for Streets Resurfacing and Rehabilitation, Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities, and Traffic Signs and Signals. $42 million for these three programs that keep our streets and infrastructure in good shape.
We thank the Expenditure Plan Advisory Committee for helping to shape Prop L, the public for providing feedback, and partner agencies for their input and coordination to complete these 5YPPs.
Next Steps
In the fall, the board will approve the final Prop L Strategic Plan that includes the projects in the 5YPPs as well as updated revenue projections for the 30 year measure. With the adoption of all 28 FYPPs, project sponsors and Transportation Authority staff are moving forward with implementing projects in every category.
Resources
Read all of the approved 5YPPs here.
Watch the presentation from the July 9 Transportation Authority Board Meeting to learn more.
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