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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1105
Author: Gordon (D)
Amended: 4/13/11 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 9-0, 6/7/11
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Harman, Huff, Kehoe, Lowenthal,
Pavley, Rubio, Simitian
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 70-0, 5/12/11 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : High-occupancy toll lanes: roadway markings
SOURCE : Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
DIGEST : This bill authorizes the Santa Clara Valley
Transportation Authority to extend a high-occupancy toll
lane into San Mateo County and conforms Californias highway
marking practices to federal guidelines.
ANALYSIS : AB 2032 (Dutra) Chapter 418, Statutes of 2004,
authorizes Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
(VTA) to establish high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes on two
of the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) corridors in Santa
Clara County in coordination with the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission (MTC), the regional
transportation planning agency and metropolitan planning
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organization for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area,
which includes Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. On the
basis of this authorization, VTA intends to established HOT
lanes on State Route (SR) 101 and on SR 237. The HOV lane
on SR 101 extends into San Mateo County for six miles.
Existing law :
1. Authorizes VTA, in coordination with the MTC, to
conduct, administer, and operate HOT lanes on any two of
the existing HOV lane systems in Santa Clara County.
2. Provides that all revenues generated by the HOT lanes
are available to VTA for expenses incurred to operate,
maintain, construct, and administer the HOT lanes.
3. Requires any remaining revenue generated by the HOT
lanes to be used exclusively for the preconstruction,
construction, and other related costs of HOV facilities
and the improvement of transit service in the corridor
from which the revenues were generated.
4. Prohibits driving to the left of a double line.
This bill:
1. Authorizes VTA to extend its HOT lane on SR 101 into San
Mateo County as far as the HOV lane exists as of January
2, 2011, provided there is an agreement with the
City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo
County.
2. Authorizes VTA and the City/County Association of
Governments of San Mateo County to negotiate a revenue
sharing agreement for using the revenue the extension of
the SR 101 HOT lane into San Mateo County generates.
3. Authorizes the use of double white lines to mark HOV/HOT
lanes to conform to Federal Highway Administration
requirements.
Comments :
Purpose . This bill allows VTA to convert the entire
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34-mile HOV lane, which begins in Morgan Hill and extends
six miles into San Mateo County, to a HOT lane.
Background . A HOT lane is an HOV lane where
single-occupant vehicles may use the facility, but must pay
a toll to do so. The toll may be modified to ensure the
volume of traffic in the HOT lane remains free flowing.
Establishing variable tolls is frequently referred to as
value pricing or congestion. Carpools and buses continue
to use the facility without paying a toll.
VTA believes that the operation of the proposed SR 101 HOT
lanes will likely be more successful by including the
six-mile segment in San Mateo County. The toll charged to
single-occupant vehicles must be sufficient to cover the
cost of planning, engineering, construction, operations,
including the cost of toll collection and enforcement by
the California Highway Patrol, payments on debt issued to
finance the conversion of the HOV lane to a HOT lane, and
improvement of transit services, including operating
subsidies for public mass transit in the corridor through
which the HOT lane passes. This bill requires that VTA
negotiate with the City/County Association of Governments
of San Mateo County the terms for the costs and
expenditures associated with extending the HOT lane into
San Mateo County.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/27/11)
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (source)
Cites Association of Santa Clara County
City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County
County of Santa Clara
Friends of Caltrans
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Achadjian, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Chesbro, Cook, Davis, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eng,
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Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Beth Gaines,
Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Hall,
Harkey, Hayashi, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries,
Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller,
Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan,
Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio,
Swanson, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada,
John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Alejo, Cedillo, Conway, Garrick, Gorell,
Roger Hernández, Bonnie Lowenthal, Mitchell, Portantino,
Torres
JJA:do 6/27/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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