San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: capital projects.

Existing law specifies the respective powers and duties of the Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the Bay Area Toll Authority relative to the state-owned toll bridges in the Bay Area. Existing law specifies major capital projects on the bridges and other expenditures that may be funded from toll revenues. Existing law provides that the authority may increase the toll rates to provide funds for various purposes, including the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, rehabilitation, and seismic retrofit of these bridges. This bill would include, among the projects that may be funded from state-owned toll bridge revenues, a major project on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge consisting of a bicycle-pedestrian-maintenance pathway linking the pathway on the replacement eastern span with San Francisco, subject to certain conditions. The bill would provide that the project may be sponsored by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The bill would prohibit the Bay Area Toll Authority from increasing tolls to fund this project.