San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: bus speed and reliability performance targets.

Existing law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a local area planning agency for the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing law creates the Bay Area Toll Authority as a separate entity governed by the same governing board as the commission and makes the authority responsible for the administration of toll revenues from the state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay area. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to collect tolls, operate, maintain, and provide rehabilitation of all state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay area, and makes the department responsible for the design and construction of improvements on those bridges in accordance with programming and scheduling requirements adopted by the authority. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission, the authority, relevant transit operators, and relevant local transportation agencies, to establish speed and reliability performance targets no later than July 1, 2024, for buses traveling in the eastbound and westbound directions through the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge corridor. The bill would require the department to 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. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission, the authority, relevant transit operators, and relevant local transportation agencies, to submit a report to the Legislature no later than December 1, 2024, that identifies a strategy for achieving bus speed and reliability performance targets in the Bay Bridge corridor. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.