The Walnut Creek City Council is scheduled to discuss on Tuesday whether to support the Contra Costa Transportation Authority’s 2020 Transportation Expenditure Plan of projects ranging from rebuilding major freeways to improving bike trails, and a prospective March 2020 ballot measure to pay for those improvements.
The proposed half-cent sales tax measure, envisioned for the March 2020 ballot, is expected to generate $3.6 billion over its projected 35-year lifespan, according to a Walnut Creek city report.
Proposed expenditures would include improvements to state Highways 4 and 242, local transit and the BART Corridor in East Contra Costa County ($705 million); modernizing Interstate Highway 680, state Highway 24 local transit and BART Corridor ($536 million); and upgrades of Interstate Highways 80 and 580 (including the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge), transit and BART West County corridor work ($243 million), along with a host of other projects throughout Contra Costa County.
The CCTA’s proposed plan includes a revised Growth Management Program (GMP), a new Complete Streets policy, a new road traffic safety policy, a new transit policy and a new advance Mitigation Program to help the
Authority achieve its goals to reduce future congestion, manage the impacts of growth and expand alternatives to the single-occupant vehicle.
CCTA officials have said that over the next 35 years, Contra Costa County’s population will continue to grow, resulting in new demands on the transportation infrastructure and additional mobility needs. The new sales tax measure is needed, they say, to meet demand of needed transportation improvement projects.
All Contra Costa County cities will be asked to support the CCTA’s Transportation Expenditure Plan and the ballot measure. The Walnut Creek City Council on Tuesday could vote to support both, one or neither.
Tuesday’s council meeting begins at 6 p.m. at Walnut Creek City Hall, 1666 N. Main St.
No more taxes. Let the state fix it with their new taxe & toll roads.
I would like to see the exact amount of gas tax and vehicle license and tax collected and then the amount spent on roads.
It’s in the budget. Revenue in expenditures out by projects and any money not spent.
Another sales tax on the ballot….
What makes you think that California will be accountable for spending the estimated $3.6 billion properly?
They haven’t done it yet, and there’s no indication that they’ll change their ways.
NO. And this is too much of a blank canvas, BART can pay for their own stuff ~ they are managed worse than PG&E.
Walnut Creek shouldn’t have flooded their city with clustered apartments……..that tax revenue should pay for infrastructure. And WTF does Hwy 4 have to do with Walnut Creek???
Please re-read the article.This is a proposed tax increase for the Contra Costa transit authority.Walnut Creek is just discussing whether or not they support it.
Why does basic maintenance always, always demand new money in California?
Silly question, I know…
What a Royal scam. The State, screws the people, the County gets in on the act, and each city, town and hamlet jumps on too. It’s never enough.
How dumb do they think we are?
Oh wait, that’s obvious.
We need to teach them they can’t keep going back to the well when they never show us any results.
Why bother complaining. The voting majority in the Bay Area are too stupid/ignorant to understand the ramifications of additional taxes. They don’t even have to float bonds anymore (but they still do/will). The brainwashed voters agree to most anything that their elected officials feed them. No reason to think for yourself any more. There is only one solution for supporters of Free choice, Free will and Freedom. Leave the state as soon as possible.
No way, NO MORE TAXES. Didn’t the auto registration and gasoline sales tax just increase for the roads. I’m surprised they don’t put some BS in there about it being for the children.
We are about to get hit with yet another Regional (read MTC) proposal for $100 Billion. The appetite for “transportation” projects is not only insatiable, it’s largely to cover unsustainable public pension costs that are otherwise robbing previously available funds. Time to stop this strategy.
“a new Complete Streets policy, a new road traffic safety policy, a new transit policy”. Actually, this is a diversion of funds to pet projects on the fringes of actual needs.
Why would anybody in California ever vote yes ever on any tax increase. Ever. Seriously, stop with the taxes and being fooled into supporting tax increases. Please, stop. It never ends.
Too many voters make up their minds based solely on advertising rather than being responsible citizens who educate themselves with facts. Side with largest advertising budget wins.
Public transit regularly self lobotomizes, they raise fares then a year or so later baffled by a ridership decline reorganize service times which causes further declines, so they raise prices.
Oh and let us not forget GENEROUS union wages and benefits.
bart employees over a couple contracts got in excess of, if memory serves, a 24 plus percent raise.
Complete Streets = Bike lanes all over the place. Tax them for it.
Taxation is theft!
No No No…but it will pass…just like sheep to slaughter.