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Projects in San Francisco, California

Below are the "shovel-ready" projects for which this city submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report. You can click on a project to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the project and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not.

The total cost of all the projects submitted by San Francisco is $1,105,760,000

Description City State Jobs Cost Program Type Vote Ratio
Doyle Drive Reconstruction. Doyle Drive is the south Access to the Golden Gate Bridge and was built in 1936. The overall project is 1.045 billion and the Federal EIR was just completed. This funding would cover the final design, right of way acquisitio San Francisco CA 500 $100,000,000 Streets/Roads -175
Street resurfacing and Curb Ramps to address the $450 million resurfacing backlog and accelerater ADA transition plan implementation San Francisco CA 74 $20,000,000 Streets/Roads -133
Harding Park: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) Regional Water System delivers pristine Sierra snowmelt from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and water from protected local reservoirs, directly to our customersÂ’ taps. San Francisco CA 379 $60,000,000 Water -104
New Crystal Springs Bypass Tunnel: The Hetch Hetchy Water System serves 2.4 million customers in the Bay Area. The system was built in the early/mid 1900Â’s and runs over three major earthquake fault lines. San Francisco CA 115 $33,000,000 Water -31
Water System Improvement Program (WSIP) Tesla Facility; Rationale: The Hetch Hetchy Water System serves 2.4 million customers in the Bay Area. The system was built in the early/mid 1900Â’s and many parts of the system are nearing the end of their San Francisco CA 60 $8,000,000 Water -3
Civic Center Sustainable District; Sustainable Civic Center Project Ask: $8,000,000.00; Total project cost: $100,000,000; Total Jobs: 75-100; Rationale: The Civic Center Sustainable District project will create a sustainable urban district San Francisco CA 75 $8,000,000 Water -52
Sharp Park Recycled Water : The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) Regional Water System delivers pristine Sierra snowmelt from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and water from protected local reservoirs, directly to our customersÂ’ taps. San Francisco CA 379 $8,000,000 Water -34
Terminal Seismic Upgrades San Francisco CA 50 $9,000,000 Airport -28
Runway Overlay and Reconstruction San Francisco CA 25 $4,000,000 Airport -28
Transbay Highspeed Rail Terminus a new multi modal center will be the Grand Central Station of the West Coast. The project is ready to break ground. San Francisco CA 1500 $200,000,000 CDBG -57
Port of San Francisco Infrastructure projects San Francisco CA 1283 $130,000,000 CDBG -94
Hunters Point Shipyard/Candlestick/Huntersview. The redevelopment of this community is a top priority for the city and is currently underway. We would fund joint trenching, Dry utility corridors, open space and pocket parks, new roads, sidewalks San Francisco CA 1000 $30,000,000 CDBG -48
Moscone Convention Center Improvements and Expansion. Tourism is San Francisco's largest industry and the City, CVB are launching a 5 year capital plan to modernize and expand this facility San Francisco CA 600 $11,000,000 CDBG -100
Municipal Officie Building Development --LEED Platinum 250,000 sf 12 story building ready to go San Francisco CA 500 $50,000,000 Energy -42
Energy Efficiency Large Facilities: General Fund Department Energy Efficiency Improvements San Francisco CA 100 $10,000,000 Energy -29
San Francisco Solar Project: Rationale: San Francisco has successfully installed 2 MW of solar photovoltaic systems on the rooftops of municipal facilities San Francisco CA 15 $4,000,000 Energy -26
Energy Efficiency Small Facilities: General Fund Department Energy Efficiency Assessment – Small Facilities Ask: $1,000,000; Total project cost: $20,000,000; Total Jobs: 8-10 (out of 160-200) San Francisco CA 10 $1,000,000 Energy -27
San Francisco Energy Efficient Streetlighting Demonstration Ask: $900,000; Total project cost: $6,750,000; Total Jobs: 4; Rationale: San Francisco owns and operates 23,000 streetlights. San Francisco CA 4 $900,000 Energy -44
The Bay Area Regional Interoperable Comminications System (BayRICS) is a state of the art, standards-based public safety communications system that will allow first responders at agencies throughout the 10 Bay Area counties to seamlessly communicate San Francisco CA 250 $25,000,000 Public Safety -18
Breda LRV Midlife OverhaulMaintain/improve current vehicle availability and reduce unscheduled failures, and provide vehicle safety enhancement (replace obsolete propulsion system, brakes, artic harness wiring, doors and steps, compressors) for 151 light San Francisco CA 200 $275,000,000 Transit -391
SFgo Traffic Signal Controllers and Transit Priority Replace up to 800 signal controllers that are obsolete and at the end of their useful life to enable transit signal priority implementation. The controller technology will ensure the first step of Sfgo San Francisco CA 500 $54,000,000 Transit -43
Neoplan Motor coach Midlife Overhaul Overhaul propulsion, cooling, brakes, air, doors and body systems on the 330 Neoplan motor coaches to maintain reliability. San Francisco CA 50 $26,000,000 Transit -58
Repair of 9 Breda LRV's Restore / rebuild up to 9 accident-damaged LRV's to improve current vehicle availability and reliability. San Francisco CA 50 $26,000,000 Transit -47
Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP)First year projects include major terminal improvements, operator restrooms, prototype rapid bus stop, signage, and smaller vehicle/cut away procurement (16 vehicles) San Francisco CA 50 $5,000,000 Transit -27
Automatic Passenger Counters-RailInstall APC's in 30% of the rail vehicles (60 units). San Francisco CA 50 $2,000,000 Transit -61
Drive Cam Installation Safety device for revenue vehicles to record any unsafe action of the operator. Installs 1250 units to equip the rubber tired and light rail vehicle fleets. San Francisco CA 50 $2,000,000 Transit -66
Central Control & Communications Facility RehabThis segment of the project is to replace major facility and equipment systems that are past their useful life at the existing control facility. This will include security, seismic, information system, etc. San Francisco CA 50 $1,786,000 Transit -21
Central Control & Communications This segment of the project is to select a site, design, engineer, and construct a new Central Control facility. This will include consultant services, primary site selection, project management plan preparation San Francisco CA 50 $1,096,000 Transit -31
Woods Maintenance Facility Lifts-Replace existing in-ground and parallelogram. Lifts are necessary for the upkeep and maintenance of MTA's diesel bus fleet. Project includes Turnkey Rail Fall Protection System at the Presidio and Potrero Trolley Maintena San Francisco CA 10 $600,000 Transit -27
Central Control & Communications Interim Line Management Center.this segment of the project is to plan, design, and build an interim Line Management Center to be used while the new Central Control Center is being designed and built. - San Francisco CA 50 $378,000 Transit -35