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Transportation 2035:Investment Trade OffsTransportation 2035:Investment Trade Offs
Metropolitan Transportation CommissionTransportation 2035 Public Involvement
Program
June 13, 2008
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Spring 2008 Public Involvement
Nine county workshops • Open to the public• Wide range of advertising• Over 400 attendees;
self-selected participants
Public Opinion Telephone Poll
• 3,600 registered voters
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Spring 2008 Public Involvement
• Nine focus groups – 96 participants, registered voters recruited from telephone poll respondents
• Ten focus groups –155 participants recruited by community-based organizations
• Series of workshops with MTC advisors
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% of Participants Attending First Public Meeting on Bay Area Transportation Issues
20% 21%24%
26%30%
9%
5%
37%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
CC Napa SM Sol
31%
31%
20% 21%24% 26%
30%
9%5%
37%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Alameda ContraCosta
Marin Napa S.F. SanMateo
SantaClara
Solano Sonoma
At Workshops
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Equal Support for 3E Goals at Workshops
05
101520253035404550
Alameda ContraCosta
Marin Napa S.F. SanMateo
SantaClara
Solano Sonoma
Economy Environment Equity
At Workshops
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Maintenance
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Higher Investment Priority: Maintain existing system vs. Build new roads, add more public transit
• Maintenance and Expansion Evenly Split
— Poll respondents 2007
• Maintenance over Expansion
— Workshop participants
• Expansion over Maintenance
— Community and Registered Voter Focus Groups
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Key Observations on Maintenance
• Overall:
• A high priority, but clear support for reserving some funds for system expansion
• Many who supported expansion primarily support it for public transit plus bike/ped investments to improve their ability to get around, and to provide alternatives to the auto
• But can’t invest exclusively in transit; support to maintain roads for safety reasons, buses use roads, etc.
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Congestion Relief
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Investment Priority: Congestion ReliefHighways vs. Transit Alternatives vs. Walking/Bicycling Alternatives
• Consensus: support transit alternatives
— Poll respondents 2007
— Workshop participants
— Community Based Focus Groups
— Registered Voter Focus Groups
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Key Observations on Congestion Relief
• Overall:• Majority support for investing in transit to relieve
freeway congestion, versus highway or bike/ped investments
• Support for transit overwhelming in urban core and in focus groups; less so in suburban areas, but transit still garnered a majority regardless of location
• Important to accommodate bikes on transit
• MTC advisors urge increased investment to improve transit performance and efficiency, e.g. improve schedule information, access to transit, route planning, security, and develop universal fare structure
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Focused Growth
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Higher Investment Priority: Communities building housing near transit vs. Even distribution among communities
• Even distribution among communities— Poll respondents 2007
• More to communities building TODs— Workshop participants
• Even distribution among communities— Community Based Focus Groups
• More to communities building TODs— Registered Voter Focus Groups
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Key Observations on Focus Growth
Overall:
• Cluster jobs as well as housing. Santa Clara and Alameda county participants cited job sprawl
• Need to address safety — safety on bikes, crime on transit and at transit stops
Community Focus Groups:
• Support even distribution of funds — housing near transit may be beyond their financial reach and smaller communities with less transit shouldn’t be penalized
MTC Advisors:
• Stress accessibility in TOD design, as well as affordability
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Access/Equity
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Key Observations on Access/Equity
• Strong support for additional subsidies for
low-income riders — All participants
• Mixed support to reluctance for basing all transit fare subsidies on income rather than age or disability — Community & Registered Voter Focus Groups — Workshop Participants
(Question not asked in polls)
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Key Observations on Access/Equity
Overall:
• Increase transit services — increase frequency and destinations — and provide seamless connections for all transit riders
• “It’s not fares that prevent people from taking transit, but more so whether transit goes where they need to go.”
— Workshop Participant
MTC Advisors:• Increase transit service hours and destinations,
improve connectivity, pursue regional accessible taxi ordinance and additional paratransit funds
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Emissions Reduction
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Transportation Investment Tradeoffs: Reducing Emissions Favored Over Making Driving Easier
• Focus on decreasing tailpipe emissions and encouraging alternatives to driving, as opposed to improving our ability to drive more easily around the Bay Area
— Poll respondents 2008— Workshop participants— Community Based Focus Groups— Registered Voter Focus Groups
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Key Observations on Emissions Reductions• By encouraging alternatives to driving we will
reduce traffic congestion and improve traffic flow
• Top four choices for reducing emissions…
• More and less expensive public transit
• Focused growth funding incentives
• Bicycle/pedestrian improvements
• Subsidize purchase of newer/cleaner vehicles
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