Bay Area Monitor ~ February/March 2001
pot of money

Measures A & B

Santa Clara County Measure A
Administering Authority: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Project Description Amt from tax
Light Rail East Valley to 87 $500 million*
BART to San Jose $2 billion*
Trolleys low floor cars $170 million
Caltrain double tracks, electrified $325 million
Caltrain new trains $100 million
Caltrain Palo Alto depot $45 million
Buses El Camino Real, Hwy 17 $32 million
ACE Altamont trains $20 million
Airport** people mover to BART, light rail $200 million*
Dumbarton*** rail to Caltrain link $40 million
New buses zero-emission $250 million
Other trolleys unspecified routes $1.1 billion
Operating costs all transit $1.1 billion

* $830 million federal funding needed for BART and light rail

** total project cost estimated at $400 million

***Dumbarton project conditioned on Alameda and San Mateo counties contributing their share



Santa Clara County Measure B (partial list of projects)
Administering Authority: Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority
Project Description Cost Amt. from tax
BART BART to Oakland airport connector $130 million $65.8 million
BART Fremont/Warm Springs $546.3 million $165.5 million
ACE operating costs, infrastructure $40.1 million
Carpool lanes Interstate 680 $36 million $25.8 million
Oakland improve access from I880 $7.8 million $6 million
Hwy 238 widen, rebuild $102 million $66 million
Hwy 84 move in Livermore $70 million $70 million
Bicycle routes expand & improve $80.6 million
Transit operating funds $311.9 million
Paratransit operating funds $148.6 million
Local streets maintenance, improvements $318 million

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