Metropolitan Transportation Commission RReeggiioonnaall BBiiccyyccllee PPllaann ffoorr tthhee SSaann FFrraanncciissccoo BBaayy AArreeaa 22000099 UUppddaattee March 2009 Prepared by: Eisen|Letunic Transportation, Environmental and Urban Planning www.eisenletunic.com In association with: Fehr & Peers transportation consultants Metropolitan Transportation Commission RReeggiioonnaall BBiiccyyccllee PPllaann ffoorr tthhee SSaann FFrraanncciissccoo BBaayy AArreeaa 22000099 UUppddaattee March 2009 Prepared by: Eisen|Letunic Transportation, Environmental and Urban Planning www.eisenletunic.com In association with: Fehr & Peers transportation consultants Table of Contents Chapter Page Table Page 1. Introduction .......................................................................................... 1 3.1 Average Bay Area weekday bicycle trips .................................... 14 2. Goals and Policies ................................................................................ 5 3.2 Average Bay Area weekend bicycle trips ..................................... 15 3. Background ......................................................................................... 11 3.3 Average Bay Area total bicycle trips ............................................ 16 • Physical setting ............................................................................... 11 3.4 Bay Area daily journey‐to‐work commuters ............................... 17 • Trip‐making trends ........................................................................ 12 3.5 Bay Area bicycle/motor vehicle collisions ................................... 20 • Motor vehicle/bicycle collision analysis ...................................... 18 3.6 Bay Area bicycle/motor vehicle injuries and fatalities ............... 21 • MTC’s bicycle‐related programs and policies ............................ 23 3.7 Bay Area bicycle/motor vehicle collision analysis ...................... 22 4. A Survey of Regional Bicycle Facilities ........................................... 27 4.1 Completion status of Regional Bikeway Network ..................... 31 • Regional Bikeway Network .......................................................... 27 4.2 Regional Bikeway Network toll bridge links .............................. 32 • Bicycle access to public transit ...................................................... 43 4.3 Bicycle access to Bay Area’s 10 largest transit operators ........... 49 • Emerging bicycle innovations ...................................................... 50 4.4 BART electronic locker installation schedule .............................. 55 5. Costs and Revenue ............................................................................ 59 5.1 Regional Bikeway Network cost ................................................... 63 6. Next Steps ........................................................................................... 67 5.2 Projected revenue for bicycle projects & programs .................... 64 • Opportunities and Constraints ..................................................... 71 F‐1 Countywide bicycle planning ..................................................... 125 F‐2 Countywide sales tax bicycle funding ....................................... 126 Appendix Page Figure Page A. Unbuilt Regional Bikeway Network Links ................................... 77 Regional Bikeway Network map ......................................................... 33 B. Existing Regional Bikeway Network Links ................................... 93 Alameda County Regional Bikeway Network map .......................... 34 C. Routine Accommodation Policies ................................................. 101 Contra Costa County Regional Bikeway Network map ................... 35 D. Revenue Sources ............................................................................. 113 Marin County Regional Bikeway Network map ............................... 36 E. Data ................................................................................................... 119 Napa County Regional Bikeway Network map ................................ 37 F. Countywide Bicycle Planning ........................................................ 123 San Francisco County Regional Bikeway Network map .................. 38 G. Resources ......................................................................................... 131 San Mateo County Regional Bikeway Network map ....................... 39 Credits ................................................................................................... 139 Santa Clara County Regional Bikeway Network map ...................... 40 Solano County Regional Bikeway Network map .............................. 41 Sonoma County Regional Bikeway Network map ............................ 42 REGIONAL BICYCLE PLAN FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA | i ii | Metropolitan Transportation Commission 1 | Introduction In this era of increasing awareness of the ongoing maintenance, and safety and Why a Regional Bicycle Plan? critical difference that wise transportation promotion programs are needed. choices can make to global climate change, Transportation 2035 is a comprehensive the bicycle is emerging as a legitimate and The Regional Bicycle Plan for the San Francisco strategy to accommodate future growth, significant travel mode. Already, more than Bay Area is one component of the alleviate congestion, improve safety, reduce 300,000 bicycle trips are made every Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s pollution and ensure mobility for all weekday by Bay Area residents (see Table multipronged effort to promote bicycling residents regardless of income. 3.1), and bicycling has the potential to play a and bicycle safety while reversing decades much bigger role if current trends continue. of automobile‐oriented development. Transportation 2035 – the Regional Attention in the media, schools and popular Transportation Plan update – boosts bicycle culture has highlighted the adverse effect spending fivefold over prior Regional Bicycle that driving has on the planet’s climate, Plan expenditures (from $20 million to $1 energy supplies, gasoline prices, air and billion), increases funds to help spur water pollution and bicyclist and pedestrian compact transit‐oriented development and a safety. To maximize the number of people launches new Climate Action Program that bicycling to work, school, shopping and for will include new programs for bicycle fun throughout the nine‐county Bay Area, facilities (see Chapter 5). As a component of the Transportation 2035 myriad infrastructure improvements, plan, the Regional Bicycle Plan for the San REGIONAL BICYCLE PLAN FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA | 1 Chapter 1 Francisco Bay Area (“Regional Bicycle Plan” or This update to the Regional Bicycle Plan seeks includes both built and unbuilt segments, is “Plan”) seeks to support individuals who to: encourage, increase and promote safer to focus regional bicycle‐related funding on choose to shift modes from automobile to bicycling; provide an analysis of bicycle trip‐ high‐priority bicycle facilities that serve bicycle by making investments in the making and collision data; summarize regional trips. Regional Bikeway Network (RBN) and other countywide bicycle planning efforts bicycling facilities, and focusing growth in throughout the Bay Area; and document Almost 50 percent of the Priority Development Areas (PDAs), which advances in bicycle parking and other Network’s 2,140 miles has been encourage growth in existing communities important technologies. While the 2001 plan constructed. and promote connections between land‐use provided an inventory of bicycle facilities at and transportation. This plan presents data, transit facilities, this update further The 2001 Regional Bicycle Plan defined the provides guidance and makes investigates the relationship between original RBN. MTC staff created a new RBN recommendations to help propel these bicycling and public transportation in geographic information system (GIS) efforts forward. recognition of the importance of bicycle‐ database for this publication, which includes accessible transit and transit stations. updated mileage and cost information, and Plan update Because safe and convenient bicycle access county‐specific maps. Almost 50 percent of must include a place to securely store one’s the Network’s 2,140 miles have been The original Regional Bicycle Plan, published bicycle at destinations, bicycle parking, at constructed. The cost to construct the in 2001, documented the region’s bicycling public transit and elsewhere, is another remainder is estimated to be $1.4 billion, environment, identified the links in a focus of this plan update. including pathways on the region’s three regionwide bikeway network and remaining bicycle‐inaccessible toll bridges summarized corresponding funding The Regional Bikeway (see Chapter 5). sources. Network Plan development process A primary purpose of the Regional A focus of the Regional Bicycle Plan is the Bikeway Network is to focus Regional Bikeway Network (RBN), which A subcommittee of the Regional Bicycle regional bicycle-related funding defines the San Francisco Bay Area’s Working Group, an advisory committee to on high-priority bicycle facilities continuous and connected bicycling MTC staff, guided the development of the that serve regional trips. corridors of regional significance. A Regional Bicycle Plan (see “Credits” for primary purpose of the RBN, which membership list). The region’s congestion 2 | Metropolitan