our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we s

our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we s

our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we s

jeff tumlin executive director i have a couple big items and a bunch of small items. start with the most important budget update. last week the californiaing legislator passed the budget includes a proposal to restore 2 billion dollars of the governor cult from the transit rail capital program funds. none will come to municipal tewas allocated by mtc. the state legislator is proposing an additional 1. 1 billion dollars in cap and trade funding be able to be flexed transis operations. with about an additional 200 million dollars in active transportation funding. we are very grateful for this support. and consider it a positive step toward being able to sustain transis operations. we are grateful for the delegation the mayor being board and many advocates who fought to get us this far. negotiations everunder way with the governoror has until june 30 to finalize the state budget. details are being worked out the deal is unconcern. you understand what this means for yous. this is a very positive stretch it covers just one third of what we need in order to avoid significan

jeff tumlin executive director i have a couple big items and a bunch of small items. start with the most important budget update. last week the californiaing legislator passed the budget includes a proposal to restore 2 billion dollars of the governor cult from the transit rail capital program funds. none will come to municipal tewas allocated by mtc. the state legislator is proposing an additional 1. 1 billion dollars in cap and trade funding be able to be flexed transis operations. with about an additional 200 million dollars in active transportation funding. we are very grateful for this support. and consider it a positive step toward being able to sustain transis operations. we are grateful for the delegation the mayor being board and many advocates who fought to get us this far. negotiations everunder way with the governoror has until june 30 to finalize the state budget. details are being worked out the deal is unconcern. you understand what this means for yous. this is a very positive stretch it covers just one third of what we need in order to avoid significan