Update:
The SFMTA has updated its 2024 Facilities Framework to combine both the modernization needs of its facilities and the electrification needs to support a fully electric fleet. Read through the 2024 Facilities Framework to understand the overall planning of facilities projects.
The Building Progress Program is a $2.3+ billion multi-year effort to repair, renovate and modernize the SFMTA’s aging facilities to keep the city moving and transition to an all-electric fleet.
Over the last several years, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has made historic investments guided by the SFMTA Strategic Plan and its underlying goals. Investments that support reliable Muni service include expanding the Muni bus and light rail fleet and opening the Islais Creek Maintenance and Operations Bus Facility in the summer of 2018. Additionally, the SFMTA is working to transition to an all electric bus fleet by 2040. These investments are helping to move more residents, employees, and visitors than ever before and are critical in meeting the city’s ambitious climate change goals.
Yet, the SFMTA facilities that support these investments need to be maintained, updated, and modernized. Our infrastructure is the backbone of San Francisco's transportation system. Neglecting the current condition and needed upgrades to these facilities will prevent the SFMTA from maintaining our street infrastructure and protecting, storing, and maintaining our diverse transit fleet.
Building Progress Projects
Overview
The SFMTA has updated its 2024 Facilities Framework to combine both the modernization needs of its facilities and the electrification needs to support a fully electric fleet. The updated goals for 2024 include:
- State of Good Repair: Modernize the SFMTA facilities to meet the needs of all who travel in San Francisco.
- Resiliency: Improve the SFMTA facilities resiliency to seismic events and climate change.
- Community: Make the SFMTA a better neighbor where transit facilities are located.
- Compliance: Meet regulatory requirements related to fleet electrification.
Framework History
First developed in 2013, The SFMTA's Real Estate and Facilities Vision for the 21st Century was created to provide recommendations on how to improve operational efficiencies, determine sustainable initiatives, identify funding sources, advance the Agency’s goals for transit-oriented development and joint development, and outline an implementation roadmap.
Four years later, the 2017 SFMTA Facilities Framework helped identify deficiencies, associated costs and prioritized improvements for 18 SFMTA facilities. The Building Progress Program is carrying out the framework’s recommendations by implementing its five elements:
- Plan for the future of SFMTA buildings and yards.
- Engage SFMTA staff, communities surrounding SFMTA facilities and additional stakeholders.
- Fund and manage the cash flow of the Building Progress Program.
- Fix and repair buildings and yards based on former facility study recommendations.
- Deliver on the programs and projects recommended in the 2017 SFMTA Facilities Framework through capital design and construction.
Among the first major sites for improvement in the Building Progress Program are the following:
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The Potrero Yard Modernization Project will replace the obsolete two-story maintenance building and bus yard located at Bryant and Mariposa streets with a modern, three-story, efficient bus maintenance and storage garage, equipped to serve the SFMTA’s growing fleet as it transitions to electric vehicles. Construction is expected to begin in 2024.
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The Presidio Yard Modernization Project will replace the obsolete two-story maintenance building and bus yard located at Geary Boulevard and Presidio Avenue.
