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SB 916 Senate Bill - AMENDED Page 14 of 29 q - D -_22 Transportation Authority. (14) Capital Corridor Improvements in Interstate -80 1Interstate 680 Corridor. Fund track and station improvements, including the Suisun Third Main Track and new Fairfield Station. Twenty -five million dollars ($25,000,000). The project sponsor is Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority and the Solano Transportation Authority. (15) Central Contra Costa Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Crossover. Add new track before Pleasant Hill BART station to permit BART trains to cross to return track towards San Francisco. Twenty -five million dollars ($25,000,000). The project sponsor BART. (16) Benicia - Martinez Bridge: New Span. Provide partial funding. for completion of new five -lane span between Benicia and Martinez to significantly increase capacity in the I -680 corridor. Fifty million dollars ($50,000,000). The project sponsor is the Bay Area Toll Authority. (17) Regional Express Bus North. Competitive grant program for bus service in Richmond -San Rafael Bridge, Carquinez, Benicia- Martinez and Antioch Bridge corridors. Provide funding for park and ride lots, infrastructure improvements, and rolling stock. Eligible recipients include Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, Vallejo Transit, Napa VINE, and Fairfield- Suisun Transit. The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District shall receive a minimum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000). Napa VINE shall receive a minimum of two million four hundred thousand dollars ($2,400,000). Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000). The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. (18) TransLink. Integrate the Bay Area's regional smart card technology, TransLink, with operator fare collection equipment and expand system to new transit services. Twenty -two million dollars ($22,000,000). The project sponsor is Metropolitan Transportation Commission. (19) Real -Time Transit Information. Provide a competitive grant program for transit operators for assistance with implementation of .`,igh- technology systems to provide real -time transit information to riders at transit stops or via telephone, wireless, or Internet communication. Priority shall be given to projects identified in the commission's connectivity plan adopted pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 30914.5. Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000). The funds shall be administered by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. (20) Safe Routes to Transit: Plan and construct bicycle and pedestrian access improvements in close proximity to transit facilities. Priority shall be given to those projects that best provide access to regional transit services. Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000). The project is jointly sponsored by the East Bay Bicycle Coalition and the Transportation and Land Use Coalition. These sponsors must identify a public agency cosponsor for purposes of specific project fund allocations. (21) BART Tube Seismic Strengthening. Add seismic capacity to existing BART tube connecting the East Bay with San Francisco. One hundred forty -three million dollars ($143,000,000). The project sponsor is BART. (22) Transbay Terminal /Downtown Caltrain Extension. Construction of a new Transbay Terminal at First and Mission Streets in San Francisco providing added capacity for transbay, regional, local, and intercity bus services, the extension of Caltrain rail services into the Terminal, and accommodation of a future high speed passenger rail line to the Terminal and eventual rail connection to the East Bay. In developing the Transbay Terminal /Downtown Caltrain Extension