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SamTrans adopted a medium- and long-term capital improvements budget over the next ten years, which will help fund a host of infrastructure needs.
The county’s transit agency approved its operating budget in June, which projects a nearly $5 million surplus for fiscal year 2026, however, fiscal year 2027 — beginning July 2026 — may see a shortfall around $4 million.
The board of directors adopted the capital improvement budgets during its July 2 meeting.
The fiscal year 2026-29 plan allocates about $319 million, or two-thirds of the total budget to the transition toward zero-emission vehicles and about $72 million toward maintenance-related projects.
The rest, about $88 million, includes safety and customer-service related projects, as well as the recently-discussed bus stop improvement plan. The plan includes making upgrades to bus shelters, benches, lighting and real-time information. While initial design phases have been completed, the project is still waiting on grant funding and additional design needs.
The capital improvements plan anticipates increasing costs over the coming years, especially for construction-heavy projects. One of those includes reactivating an unused rail corridor just south of the Dumbarton Bridge into a new busway aimed at improving travel between south county and the East Bay. SamTrans approved a $2 million contract to kick-start the preliminary phases — which include both outreach and conceptual design work — and is expected to cost about $150 million, according to previous estimates.
The project is expected to start construction by 2028 and would help connect North Fair Oaks, East Palo Alto and Redwood City with the East Bay.
SamTrans Strategic Planning Manager Chelsea Schultz said the shorter-term budget has less restrictions than the 10-year but both remain flexible based on continuous board member feedback.
“These projects are constrained to the projection of available funding over the next four years so that could be either district dollars or external funding,” Schultz said. “The project costs, schedules and funding sources that were considered as part of those projects will be refined through the biennial budget process.”
Some of the work needed for the agency’s new headquarters is also included in the budget. SamTrans finalized the purchase of its new headquarters at the end of 2023, situated near the BART and Caltrain Millbrae station. As of February, the agency had allocated about $48 million for tenant improvements and expects final completion during the first half of 2026.
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The "Dumbarton Busway" is the continuation of the "Dumbarton Railroad" - a way for SamTrans to give millions to certain consultants to keep studying without ever really achieving anything. There are plenty of streets that could be transformed into bus lanes for a handful of dollars in paint. But they "study" to add two more lanes - this is basically another highway widening project run by Jeff Gee, Rico E. Medina, David Canepa and Jackie Speier.
Across the country - and in many red states - unused railroad corridors have been transformed into walking/biking Eldorado's increasing the physical and mental health of their residents.
But this is not how San Mateo Democrats (Jeff Gee, Rico E. Medina, David Canepa or Jackie Speier) seem to operate.
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