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improving the quality of life, and preserving the local community character within the corridor.
(b) Examples of this more comprehensive approach to improving congestion in highly traveled corridors include, but are not limited to, programs in the following regions:
(1) The North Coast Corridor improvements along Route 5 and the parallel rail corridor in the County of San Diego.
(2) The Route 91 and Metrolink rail corridor improvements in the County of Riverside.
(3) Emerging solutions for the Route 101 and Caltrain corridor connecting Silicon Valley with San Francisco.
(4) Multimodal approaches for the Route 101 and SMART rail corridor between the Counties of Marin and Sonoma.
(5) Comprehensive solutions for the Route 405 Corridor in the County of Los Angeles.
(c) The state recognizes the benefits to mobility, quality of life, and the environment through comprehensive, multimodal proposals that address mobility, community, and environmental challenges along highly traveled corridors. Therefore, the Solutions for Congested Corridors Program is being created to support collaborative and comprehensive proposals to address these challenges.
SEC. 44. Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 2390) is added to Division 3 of the Streets and Highways Code, to read:
CHAPTER 8.5. CONGESTED CORRIDORS
2390. The Solutions for Congested Corridors Program is hereby created.
2391. Pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 11053 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) in the State Highway Account shall be available for appropriation to the Department of Transportation in each annual Budget Act for the Solutions for Congested Corridors Program. Funds made available for the program shall be allocated by the California Transportation Commission to projects designed to achieve a balanced set of transportation, environmental, and community access improvements within highly congested travel corridors throughout the state. Funding shall be available for projects that make specific performance improvements and are part of a comprehensive corridor plan designed to reduce congestion in highly traveled corridors by providing more transportation choices for residents, commuters, and visitors to the area of the corridor while preserving the character of the local community and creating opportunities for neighborhood enhancement projects. In order to mitigate increases in vehicle miles traveled, greenhouse gases, and air pollution, highway lane capacity-increasing projects funded by this program shall be limited to high-occupancy vehicle lanes, managed lanes as defined in Section 14106 of the Government Code, and other non-general purpose lane improvements primarily designed to improve safety for all modes of
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