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AB-455 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: bus speed and reliability performance targets.(2021-2022)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.
 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The Bay Bridge corridor has a uniquely high proportion of travel by transit use, with morning peak hour transit riders numbering nearly three times as many as automobile travelers in 2015.
(2) The Bay Bridge corridor is consistently among the most used road segments in the San Francisco Bay area, resulting in a situation where full buses are frequently stuck in traffic congestion causing service that is slow and unreliable for customers and costly for transit operators.
(3) The state has invested more than $500,000,000 in a modern transit terminal, known as the Transbay Transit Center, connected to the Bay Bridge by exclusive access ramps, with capacity to serve 300 buses per hour.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Toll Authority, county transportation commissions, and transit operators, establish ambitious bus speed and reliability performance targets and consider a wide range of operational and capital improvements in order to achieve fast and reliable bus transit within the corridor, such as vehicle occupancy requirements, incident response procedures, and part-time transit lanes.
(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that transit-only lane additions in the Bay Bridge corridor result in a greater number of people per hour being able to cross the bridge.

SEC. 2.

 Section 30952.4 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:

30952.4.
 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Bay Bridge” means the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
(2) “Bay Bridge corridor” means the corridor between the Transbay Transit Center and locations that include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(A) The State Route 24 and Interstate Highway 580 interchange.
(B) The Powell Street on-ramp to Interstate Highway 580 in the City of Emeryville.
(C) The intersection of Frontage Road and West Grand Avenue in the City of Oakland.
(D) The Interstate Highway 880 and Interstate Highway 980 interchange.
(E) The Interstate Highway 80 and Interstate Highway 580 interchange at the Buchanan Street exit.
(3) “MTC” means the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
(4) “Relevant transit operators” means public transit operators that provide service through the Bay Bridge corridor.
(5) “Relevant local transportation agencies” means county transportation commissions that have jurisdiction over any portion of the Bay Bridge corridor.
(b) No later than July 1, 2024, the department, in consultation with MTC, the authority, relevant transit operators, and relevant local transportation agencies, shall establish speed and reliability performance targets for buses traveling in the eastbound and westbound directions through the Bay Bridge corridor. The department shall establish an online reporting process, in consultation with relevant transit operators, to publicly share bus speed and reliability performance results relative to the performance targets on no less than a quarterly basis.
(c) No later than December 1, 2024, the department, in consultation with MTC, the authority, relevant transit operators, and relevant local transportation agencies, shall submit a report to the Legislature in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code that identifies a strategy for achieving bus speed and reliability performance targets in the Bay Bridge corridor. The strategy shall include all of the following:
(1) The bus speed and reliability performance targets for the corridor established pursuant to subdivision (b).
(2) A description of how the bus speed and reliability performance targets will be monitored and reported.
(3) A description of the process by which the department, in consultation with MTC, the authority, relevant local transportation agencies, and relevant transit operators, determined the bus speed and reliability performance targets pursuant to subdivision (b), and a description of how bus performance will be tracked and reported.
(4) A list of policies and projects that the department, in consultation with MTC and the authority, determines are necessary to achieve bus speed and reliability performance targets. For each identified policy or project, the department shall include all of the following:
(A) An estimate of the date that the project or policy could be implemented under the funding projections in place at the time that the report is transmitted to the Legislature.
(B) Identification of any legislative or policy barriers to implementing policies or projects listed pursuant to this paragraph.
(C) Recommendations for legislative, policy, and funding changes that would remove barriers identified in subparagraph (B) and expedite implementation of the project or policy.
(D) An assessment of how the proposed policy or project would benefit high-occupancy vehicles other than public transit vehicles.
SEC. 3.
 The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique transportation and congestion issues on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.