Eugene K' Skoropowski, Managing Director

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Californias Intercity Rail Corridorswith a
Capitol Corridor focus Arizona Transit
AssociatonAzTA Rail Symposium, TempeSeptember
28, 2007

• Eugene K. Skoropowski, Managing Director
• Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA)
• Oakland, California

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State-supported Rail and Bus network covers
approximately 80 of population base of state
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Results Speak Volumes 1991- 2006

• 3 of Amtraks 6 busiest routes are now in
  California
• 20 of all Amtraks riders are now in California
• (Intercity rail passenger trains in California
  kept 500,000,000 VMTs off of Californias
  highways in 2005,and this number is growing each
  year)
• Partnerships have been proven with the local
  communities, riders, California Department of
  Transportation, Amtrak, Union Pacific Railroad
  and BNSF Railway

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Who pays for Northern Californias intercity
passenger rail service?

• Capital investments
• Are 100 state funds grant funding is mostly
  from voter-approved bonds
• (No federal capital matching programs yet exist
  for intercity passenger rail)
• Operating costsA funding partnership between
  the state and the passengers
• Passenger fares state subsidy each pay 50
  /- (Amtrak is a contract operator only and
  does not contribute subsidy)This annual state
  subsidy should really be considered as the
  annual maintenance cost of protecting the
  states initial rail capital investments, similar
  to annual road maintenance costs

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This is not nostalgia, this is modern
transportation for today and tomorrow!
CAPITOL CORRIDOR Average trip 70 miles Annual
miles NOT driven per passenger 33,600 Fuel
saved per passenger at 20 mpg 1680
gal/yr _at_ 3.00/gal 5,040/yr/pass (not incl.
parking tolls) Each 100 new daily riders saves
168,000 gal of fuel/yr And 504,000 in fuel
cost/yr
NUMBER OF DAILY TRAINS Boston-New York 34
trips Oakland-Sacramento 32 trips San
Diego-LA 26 trips
Current Capitol Corridor riders annually save
5,075,000 gallons of fuel today And keep
105,150,000 vehicle miles off of our highways
annually (and growing)
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Tracks Facts

• Amtrak is more energy efficient thanairlines
  by 20autos by 27(even at existing ridership
  levels- add more trains/riders, can be even
  better)
• 1 gal of fuel can move 1 ton of freight 440 miles
• 2 track railroad has the same capacity as 12
  lanes of highway (at less than 25 of the land
  width, lower cost)
• High-tech diesel locomotives are cleanest
  anywhere
• Passenger rail corridors help concentrate
  development, conserve land, use existing public
  utilities infrastructure

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Californias key to passenger rail success

• Capital funding
• Capital funding
• Capital funding
• Steady stream of operating funding
• Good working relationship with private railroads,
  Amtrak
• Success generates riders,political funding
  support (and good management helps a bit too)

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Where did this capital money come from?

• Voter-initiated, voter-approved bonds (Prop.116)
  Propositions
  108, 111, 116 approved Nov. 1990
• Bonds are general obligation of the state, BUT
  part of 4.75 sales tax on fuel amortizes bonds
• 100 state funding no federal funds (there is no
  federal capital match for intercity rail,
  although state DOTs are pushing for it)
• States for Passenger Rail Coalition (S4PRC)

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The Capitol Corridor on Union Pacific Railroad
in Northern CaliforniaOur riders and our trains
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What is needed?

• Legislation is moving through Congress NOW
• Senate Bill S.294 (Lautenberg-Lott Bill)
• House Bill HR1300 (Hoyer Bill)
• Investment tax credits for the freight railroads
• Tax credit bonds for intercity passenger rail
• Reauthorizations Aviation, Amtrak
• Opportunity for federal-state partnership is NOW
• Alliance of freight passenger rail capacity
  needs

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This could be the year

• that begins to move the USA out of Third World
  category on public transportation, especially
  rail
• that begins to recognize that we need to provide
  our people with travel options/choices
• that begins to make people aware of the
  necessity of investing in ourselves, especially
  infrastructure
• that people begin to realize that the increase
  in gas prices has all gone to oil companies and
  oil producing countries that usually hate us (and
  this money often funds the terrorism we are
  paying to fight) and remember that
• not one more cent per gallon of that gas price
  increase has gone to the public coffers to fund
  infrastructure needs

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Thank you

• For the chance to tell the story of our States
  rail success
• Americans are riding quality train services
  today. They are also willing to fund more
  trains, both for operating and capital, if given
  a choice on the matter. If Californians are
  riding intercity passenger trains in droves, it
  can happen anywhere.
• I have Capitol Corridor Train Timetables here
  and a copy of our 2006 Performance
  Report. they are free!