The Sacramento Transportation Authority (SacTA or STA) has posted its proposed Measure A Ordinance and Transportation Expenditure Plan. It is a 38 page document, so if you want to look at the parts, they are here:
Ordinance
Exhibit A Transportation Expenditure Plan
Exhibit A TEP Details (here is where the money is distributed)
Exhibit B Safeguards
The TEP detail shows the roadway expenditures:
- Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) Maintenance, Operations, and Transformative System Improvements, 21.90% (page A18; page 9 of the excerpt)
- Congestion Relief Improvements: Transit and Rail Congestion Improvement Projects, 13.11% (page A20; page 11 of the excerpt)
- Senior and Disabled Transportation Services, 3.09% (page A21; page 12 of the excerpt)
- Local Projects of Regional Significance section, there is also a line item for the City of Sacramento: Intermodal Transportation Facility Development – Phase 3 Implementation Capital Costs, but no specific allocation is made.
- Commuter Rail Service Enhancements, $80M (page A21; page 12 of the excerpt)
- Sacramento Intermodal Transit Facility, $40M (page A22; page 13 of the excerpt)
The amount allocated to SacRT would be 38.1%. The rumor of a 60/40 split between roadways and transit is not even reached.
It is and has been STAR’s position that 2/3 of any new transportation sales tax must be allocated to transit, in order to bring the total transit funding to 1/2 cent. The proposed TEP does not meet that requirement, and does not even come close to it. We have been spending the vast majority of our transportation funds to accommodate fossil fueled private and commercial motor vehicles, at the federal, state, regional, county, and city level, for far too long, since World War II. It is time to make up for that past bias, which has produced a pretty dysfunctional transportation system, by allocating a real share to transit.