NOTE: The Budget Czar game is accepting additional submittals at this time. However, the drawing for the $50 Clipper cards has already taken place.
Today, you’re in charge of planning San Francisco’s transportation future. After basic operations and maintenance, you will have $3.2 billion to spend on programs, projects and extra maintenance (see details). Below, the green circles show $9 billion committed to specific projects that are underway. The gray circles are the funds at your disposal—they will fill in green as you make spending choices. The white circles will fill in gray—giving you more money to spend—if you choose to add new revenue. You can change your choices at any time before submitting your budget. Your budget will be used to help develop the San Francisco Transportation Plan.
Operations and Maintenance [ learn more ]
Transit operations and maintenance
Operation and maintenance of our transit system is essential. You must select one of the choices below before submitting your budget.
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Street maintenance
Maintenance of the street network is essential. You must select one of the choices below before submitting your budget.
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Programs [ learn more ]
Muni enhancements
Regional transit enhancements
Street and signal upgrades
Walking and traffic calming
Bicycling
Transportation demand and parking management
Projects [ learn more ]
Potential projects are grouped into tiers based on an evaluation of their cost-effectiveness: how much benefit the project would provide relative to its cost. The project cost figures shown include both the capital cost and, if applicable, the new additional cost to operate the project after construction through the end of the 30-year period covered by the SFTP.
Top Tier (projects with high performance)
Better Market Street [$260 million]
HOV / Carpool lane on Central Freeway [$20 million]
Congestion pricing and related multi-modal investments in downtown and Treasure Island [$120 million]
Historic streetcar service between Fisherman's Wharf and the 4th Street Caltrain station [$150 million]
Potrero / Bayshore Bus Rapid Transit [$130 million]
New Caltrain station at Oakdale Avenue, in the Bayview [$60 million]
Transit Effectiveness Project [$180 million]
Muni Transit Performance Initiative [$400 million]
Middle Tier (projects with middle-high performance)
BART turn-back spur and “BART Metro” improvements [$500 million]
BART 30th Street station [$810 million]
Carpool/bus lanes on I-280 and Highway 101 [$150 million]
Contra-flow carpool lane on the Bay Bridge [$340 million]
Evans Avenue transit priority treatments (Bayview/Hunters Point) [$70 million]
Express Muni bus service from Hunters Point and Candlestick Point to downtown [$150 million]
Geary Boulevard BRT [$230 million]
Geneva Avenue BRT [$90 million]
Geneva Avenue extension [$150 million]
Stockton transit priority and partial Bus Rapid Transit [$20 million]
T-Third Street to Caltrain Bayshore station [$150 million]
19th Avenue Muni Metro M light-rail alignment [$270 million]
Bottom Tier (projects with low-middle performance)
Boulevard replacement for Central Freeway [$230 million]
Bridge over Yosemite Slough [$70 million]
Central Subway extension to Fisherman’s Wharf [$1690 million]
Extend M-Line to Daly City [$380 million]
Geary Boulevard light-rail line [$2000 million]
Geneva Avenue light-rail line [$440 million]
Harney Way rebuild [$450 million]
Historic streetcar service to Fort Mason [$90 million]
Increased BART service in San Francisco [$700 million]
J-Church limited bus [$50 million]
Mission Bay ferry terminal [$80 million]
N-Judah spur to Mission Bay, along 16th Street [$620 million]
Southeast Waterfront transit priority and increased service [$880 million]
Revenue [ learn more ]
● Half-cent sales tax increase
● Transportation user fees (parking pricing, high-occupancy toll lanes on freeways, increased bridge tolls)
● Increased state Vehicle License Fee
● Parcel tax
● Community benefits / facilities district property assessment
● Local gas tax
The purpose of this activity is not to assess which individual new transportation revenue source San Francisco could or should consider. Rather, it is to provide you with a chance to see what additional investments your budget can afford with supplemental revenue.