SFTP | Available Funding for San Francisco Transportation

	Anticipated Uses of Funds Through 2040
	Anticipated Revenue Sources Through 2040 REVENUE SOURCE ESTIMATED REVENUES FOR SAN FRANCISCO  Local $37.8 billion Federal $12.3 billion State $7.6 billion Regional $5.0 billion Anticipated Unspecified* $1.7 billion TOTAL $64.3 billion * Additional funding that San Francisco can expect to receive over the next 28 years based on historic trends. This category could include funds from a variety of sources including bonds, new state and federal programs, and/or private contributions.

Between now and 2040, $64 billion will be available to support San Francisco transportation. (This includes all sources of revenue: federal, state, regional, local, and private.)

Most of that—$51.7 billion—is devoted to Operations and Maintenance and is the bare minimum needed to run buses and trains, repave streets, and generally maintain our transportation system in its current state.

Another $9 billion is already committed to specific projects that are underway.

That leaves $3.14 billion—or about $112 million a year over the life of the SFTP—to spend on programs, projects, and increased operations and maintenance.

Read on to learn more about what is contained in each slice of San Francisco's Transportation Budget:

• Funding for Operations and Maintenance
• Funding for Projects Already Underway
• Uncommitted Revenue for New Projects, Programs, and additional Operations and Maintenance
  

FUNDING FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

Over 75%—$51.7 billion—of San Francisco’s transportation funds must be used to operate and maintain our existing transit system (e.g., Muni, BART, and Caltrain) and the city's street network—paying for things like repaving streets, replacing old transit vehicles, and buying fuel to run the buses and trains. This category includes a transit component, which supports the day-to-day costs of transit operations like fuel and spare parts to keep buses and trains running, as well as the cost of repairing and replacing assets like buses, rail, or escalators at Muni subway stations. It also includes a streets and roads component, which supports the ongoing costs of paving and maintaining San Francisco's 865 miles of streets and roadways.
 

FUNDING FOR PROJECTS ALREADY UNDERWAY

While much of the discussion over the next several months will focus on which potential new projects to include in the final investment plan, another portion of the SFTP budget is devoted to projects that are already underway and will automatically be included in the final plan.

Each of these projects was included because it meets one or more of the following criteria:

• The project is already under construction;
• The project is fully funded and all funding is committed;
• The project has been identified as a regional transit expansion priority by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission; or
• The project is committed under the High-Speed Rail Early Investment Strategy.

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Transportation Projects Already Underway

UNCOMMITTED REVENUE

After accounting for needed expenditues to operate and maintain our existing transportation system and fund projects already underway, San Francisco is left with $3.14 billion to spend on new projects, programs, and additional maintenance and operations between now and 2040. (Visit our Putting New Investments on the Map page to learn about the different ways we could invest these available "uncommitted" transportation dollars.)

While $3 billion is a significant investment, it is not enough to meet all of our city's needs. Our "what it would take" analysis, for example, found that we would need closer to $4 billion just to bring our existing transportation system into an ideal state of repair. It would take an additional $10 billion to get closer to meeting our city's climate change goals. And, we received over $14 billion in funding requests (excluding a second trans-Bay BART tube) for new transportation projects during our Call for Projects process. Clearly, the next several months will involve challenging tradeoff decisions about how to meet the future needs of San Francisco's transportation system with the resources available.

LEARN MORE ABOUT INVESTMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

• Investment Strategy Home Page
• Available Funding for San Francisco Transportation
• Putting New Investments on the Map