Metropolitan Transportation Plan

The Metropolitan Transportation Plan is a 28-year plan for transportation improvements in our six-county region based on projections for growth in population, housing and jobs. The MTP is key to the quality of life and economic health of our region.

Ensuring convenient access to jobs, school, entertainment, recreation and critical services such as banking, medical care and shopping will require a transportation system of roads, transit, bikeways and sidewalks to manage our diverse needs.

SACOG is the Metropolitan Planning Organization responsible for developing the state and federally required MTP every four years in coordination with the 22 cities and six counties in the greater Sacramento region. Under memoranda of understanding, long-range transportation plans in El Dorado and Placer Counties are also incorporated into the MTP.

Regardless of city-or county-designated transportation projects, local improvements must be included in our regional MTP to receive state and federal funding. The last MTP for 2025 proposed using $22.5 billion in transportation funds to operate, maintain and expand the region's transportation system. Expenditures included: $2.5 billion for state highway improvements, $3 billion for state highway maintenance, $2.5 billion for transit improvements, $5 billion for transit operations, and $5 billion for local road improvements.

MTP2035 PROCESS: PHASE I Start-up Fall 2005 Technical Forecasts and Modeling Public Education and Outreach PHASE II Begin Public Dialogue Spring 2006 Elected Officials Workshop Community Workshops and Stakeholder Meetings PHASE III Develop Alternatives Summer 2006 Projects from MTP Workshops Technical Analysis Projects Combined into Alternatives PHASE IV Discussion and Draft Input Fall / Winter 2006 Regional TALL Order Forum Continuing Analysis Projects Recombined into Draft Preferred Alternative Spring 2007 MTP Board Input and Public Outreach (Surveys, Polls, and TV Town Hall) Final Analysis of MTP Projects (Budget, Timing, Performance) Summer 2007 Draft MTP Project List Public Participation Plan Public Comment Period PHASE V The Plan Fall / Winter 2007 Prepare and Release Final Draft MTP and Draft EIR Public Comment Period and Public Hearing MTP Adoption by Board Gold Background = current stage

Federal law requires the MTP to conform to air quality goals for the region, satisfy financial constraints such that all proposed projects can be reasonably funded, and undergo extensive public review. State law further requires the MTP process include careful environmental analysis and review.

The MTP 2035 will be the first MTP for the Sacramento region to pro-actively link land use, air quality, and transportation needs. Development of the MTP will include an 18-month public priority setting process to identify a list of transportation improvement projects to best meet the needs of our region as a whole.

2006 MTP

October 2, 2006:   Final Draft 2007/09 MTIP and Amendment #1 to the 2006 MTP

The 2006 MTP (8.33 mb PDF), which was adopted March 16, 2006, will be in effect until the MTP2035 is adopted in 2007. It restores many projects that could not be implemented while the region was in an air quality conformity lapse. Appendix E is a separate listing of the plan's projects.

Also adopted were an Addendum (148 kb PDF) to the Environmental Impact Report for the MTP2025, and an Air Quality Conformity Determination (14.6 mb PDF).