Projects that reduce emissions from motor vehicles
– the single largest source of air pollution in the Bay Area –
have received $226 million over the past 10 years from the Bay Area
Air Quality Management District’s (Air District) Transportation
Fund for Clean Air (TFCA).
Projects that reduce emissions from motor vehicles – the single largest source of air pollution in the Bay Area – have received $226 million over the past 10 years from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s (Air District) Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA).
The 1,407 projects around the Bay Area that were funded by the program reduced smog-forming and particulate emissions by an estimated 12,600 tons in the decade since the Air District inaugurated the TFCA grant program. This is equivalent to taking 60,000 cars off the road.
The goal of TFCA funds is to implement the most cost-effective projects in the Bay Area that will decrease motor vehicle emissions and, therefore, improve air quality. The fund covers a wide range of project types including purchase or lease of clean fuel buses, purchase of clean air vehicles, shuttle, and feeder bus service to train stations; ridesharing programs to encourage carpool and transit use; bicycle facility improvements such as bike lanes, bicycle racks, and lockers; road management improvement projects to speed the flow of transit buses and traffic on major roads and transit projects to enhance the availability and accessibility of transit information.
The TFCA grant is funded by a $4 surcharge on Department of Motor Vehicle registration fees collected in the Bay Area. Public agencies can apply for the funds themselves or on behalf of private agencies that provide essential public services such as vanpools and shuttles.
