Agmt20 San Mateo County Transportation Authority

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CITY agrees: 1. To use any Measure W Funds to supplement (and not replace) its current public transportation investments. 2. To use any Measure W Funds to invest in major arterial and local roadway improvements in key congested areas throughout the County, focusing on improving safety, reducing congestion, and supporting all modes of travel on the County's roadway system. 3. If the City has a Pavement Condition Index score (PCI) of less than 70, it will use Tax Proceeds under this Category exclusively for projects that will increase its PCI score until such time as it reaches 70 or greater. 4. The City may use Measure W Funds for investments including, but not limited to, the following: implementing advanced technologies and communications on the roadway system; improving local streets and roads by paving streets and repairing potholes; promoting alternative modes of transportation, which may include funding shuttles or sponsoring carpools, bicycling and pedestrian programs; planning and implementing traffic operations and safety projects, including signal coordination, bicycle/pedestrian safety projects, and separating roadways crossing the Caltrain rail corridor. 5. City will invest W Funds with guidance from the following core principles of the Congestion Relief Plan (Core Principles), as applicable: • Relieve traffic congestion countywide; • Invest in a financially -sustainable public transportation system that increases ridership, embraces innovation, creates more transportation choices, improves travel experience, and provides quality, affordable transit options for youth, seniors, people with disabilities, and people with lower incomes; • Implement environmentally -friendly transportation solutions and projects that incorporate green stormwater infrastructure and plan for climate change; • Promote economic vitality, economic development, and the creation of quality jobs; • Maximize opportunities to leverage investment and services from public and private partners; • Enhance safety and public health; • Invest in repair and maintenance of existing and future infrastructure; • Facilitate the reduction of vehicle miles travelled, travel times and greenhouse gas emissions; • Incorporate the inclusion and implementation of complete street policies and other strategies that encourage safe accommodation of all people using the roads, regardless of mode of travel; • Incentivize transit, bicycle, pedestrian, carpooling and other shared -ride options over driving alone; and REV: 09-09-19 DZ ATTY/AGR.2019.226/San Mateo County Transportation Authority (Page 2 of 7)