Transportation Plans, Programs and Studies

Transportation Plans, Programs and Studies
STA Director of Planning, Bob Macaulay

The STA‟s Comprehensive Transportation Plan – the CTP – takes all of our plans and brings them together into a single document, look-ing at the long-range direction of the county transportation system. The last CTP update was completed in 2005, and that does not seem so long ago. But circumstances and projects can change quickly. For example, the 2005 CTP did not anticipate the Prop 1B funding received for the State Route 12 Jameson Canyon project, and it still considered the possibility of a South By-pass for the I-80/I-680/SR-12 interchange.

In order to make sure the CTP is kept current, we‟ll be updating all three elements of the plan – Arterials, Highways and Freeways; Transit; and Alternative Modes. Once they are up to date, we‟ll look at future ideas to make sure that the entire web of transportation facilities can be built and maintained so that it best works for you.

The local CTP is used to help the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as it develops the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). The RTP examines the transportation needs of the entire 9-county Bay Area over the next 25 years. The RTP is scheduled for adoption in early 2009. Projects that are contained in both the RTP and CTP can then receive regional and state funds to help in their construction.