Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Table of Contents Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Table of Contents Table of Contents General Manager’s Message ............................................................................................ 3 Chapter 1. Introduction to Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority .................... 5 Metro Profile ...................................................................................................................... 5 Metro Board of Directors & Agency Oversight .................................................................. 9 Regional Planning ........................................................................................................... 12 Organization Chart ......................................................................................................... 14 How to Contact Metro ..................................................................................................... 16 Chapter 2. Budget Summary ......................................................................................... 17 Developing the Budget .................................................................................................... 18 Operating Budget ............................................................................................................ 21 Capital Budget ................................................................................................................ 22 Funding ...................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 3. Budget Assumptions and Statistics .............................................................. 27 Ridership and Revenue .................................................................................................. 28 Allocation of State and Local Support ............................................................................. 37 Grants ...................................................................................................................... 43 Debt Service ................................................................................................................... 47 Human Capital ................................................................................................................ 56 Chapter 4. Operating Budget by Mode .......................................................................... 59 Metrobus ...................................................................................................................... 64 Metrorail ...................................................................................................................... 81 MetroAccess ................................................................................................................... 94 Chapter 5. Capital Budget .............................................................................................. 99 Metro Matters Program ................................................................................................. 104 Non-Metro Matters ........................................................................................................ 109 Chapter 6: Departmental Budgets ............................................................................... 117 Authority-Wide .............................................................................................................. 118 Independent Offices ...................................................................................................... 122 Deputy General Manager .............................................................................................. 131 Bus Services ................................................................................................................. 134 Operations Services ...................................................................................................... 137 Rail Operations Delivery ............................................................................................... 140 Access Services ............................................................................................................ 143 Financial Services ......................................................................................................... 147 Metro Transit Police ...................................................................................................... 151 Corporate Strategy and Communications ..................................................................... 155 Chief Administrative Officer .......................................................................................... 159 Workforce Services ....................................................................................................... 162 Planning and Joint Development .................................................................................. 165 Information Technology ................................................................................................ 169 Safety .................................................................................................................... 172 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Table of Contents Chapter 7: Capital Project Budgets .............................................................................. 175 Appendix A. Resolutions of the Board of Directors ...................................................... 203 Appendix B Budget Process ....................................................................................... 299 Appendix C. Financial Standards ................................................................................. 305 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget General Manager’s Message General Manager’s Message As Fiscal Year 2009 was coming to a close, Metro and the region as a whole experienced a tragic event that overshadowed everything else. On June 22, 2009, a tragic collision on the Red Line claimed the lives of nine people and injured more than 70 others. Our hearts go out to the friends and families of those who died, as well as to those who were injured. Metro is cooperating fully with local and federal safety officials as efforts continue to determine the cause and work to prevent something like this from happening again. Much of what we will do in Fiscal Year 2010 will be geared toward addressing any safety issues that may be identified as a result of this investigation. Although everything else that happened in Fiscal Year 2009 pales in the light of this devastating accident, there were some notable events. In Fiscal Year 2009 we moved to using electronic transfers exclusively, and adopted an equal transfer discount between bus and rail service. It was a year that saw Metro support the Inauguration Ceremony of President Barack Obama, by providing 1.5 million trips to customers on Inauguration Day. It was also a year in which we needed to make many tough decisions. We were forced to reduce our staffing, as well as make some cuts to transit service, in the coming year. The service reductions reflect the dire state of the nation’s economy and our own limited funding sources. Thankfully, we were able to minimize service reductions, and we put forward a balanced budget that did not require a major increase in the contribution from our regional partners or a major fare increase. Even in these tough economic times, and with some assistance from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we will be able to make improvements to our service over the next year. We will continue efforts to implement the planned network of priority bus corridors, which could improve service for up to half of Metrobus customers in as little as six years. We will also continue to replace our older buses with new buses, which will help us keep our average fleet age as close to 7.5 years as possible and support regional efforts to improve air quality. A very important task for FY10 will be to put a new agreement in place that assures Metro has sufficient funding for capital maintenance to provide safe, reliable service. We have identified more than $11 billion in capital needs over the next decade, and it will be a challenge to fully fund that program even with the passage of federal legislation that authorizes $1.5 billion in federal capital funding for Metro over the next ten years. There is much to do in FY10. This will be a year in which every employee is focused on regaining the trust of Metro’s customers. I hope you will find this to be a useful document, and that it will answer any questions you have about our mission and our funding. John B. Catoe, Jr. General Manager 3 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Chapter 1. Introduction to Metro 4 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Chapter 1. Introduction to Metro Chapter 1. Introduction to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Metro Profile History in Brief Metro was created in 1967 by interstate compact. Construction of the Metrorail system began in 1969 and the first phase of Metrorail operation began in 1976. Metro added a second transit service to its network in 1973 when, under direction from the U.S. Congress, it acquired four area bus systems and created Metrobus. In 1994, Metro added a third transit service when it began providing MetroAccess, a paratransit service for people with disabilities unable to use fixed route transit service. Metro completed the originally planned 103-mile Metrorail system in early 2001. In 2004, Metro expanded the system, opening the Blue Line extension to Largo Town Center and New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U station on the Red Line. The expansion brought the Metrorail system to its current 86 stations and 106 miles. Metro Facts  Metro maintains the second largest rail system, the sixth largest bus system and the eighth largest paratransit service in the nation.  Known as “America’s Transit System,” average weekday passenger trips on Metrorail and Metrobus total nearly 1.2 million.  Metrorail and Metrobus serve a population of 3.5 million within a 1,500 square-mile area.  Metro has spurred over $25 billion of economic development at or adjacent to Metro property. 5 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Chapter 1. Introduction to Metro  More than half of Metrorail stations serve federal facilities and approximately 40% of Metro’s peak period customers are federal employees.  Metro’s transit zone consists of the District of Columbia, the suburban Maryland counties of Montgomery and Prince George’s and the Northern Virginia counties of Arlington, Fairfax and Loudon and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church. Metrorail The Metrorail system is a rapid transit system that consists of 106.3 route miles and 86 passenger stations and a fleet of over 1,100 rail cars. Service is operated from 5 AM to midnight Monday through Thursday, from 5 AM to 3 AM on Friday, from 7 AM to 3 AM on Saturday, and from 7 AM to midnight on Sunday. In FY 2008, Metrorail provided more than 222 million passenger trips. The system comprises three main types of structures: subway, surface and aerial. The subway (or underground) sections consist of 50.5 route miles and 47 stations. The surface sections comprise 46.31 miles and 33 stations, and the aerial sections consist of 9.22 route miles and 6 stations. While there are three types of structures, they operate as one unified system with seamless service to the passenger. Metrorail service is operated over five lines: Blue, Green, Orange, Red and Yellow. All Metrorail stations and rail cars are accessible to persons with disabilities. , There are 588 escalators and 235 elevators in the Metrorail system. The Wheaton Station on the Red Line has the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere, at 230 feet long. The Forest Glen Station, also on the Red Line, is the deepest station in the system (196 feet or 21 stories) with high speed elevators that take less than 20 seconds to travel from the street to the platform. The system is extensively equipped with communication systems that facilitate the flow of information to and from the passenger. All stations are equipped with digital signs that show next train arrival times, system status and time of day. The system operations control center is equipped with two-way radios for constant communication with all train operators in service, as well as hotlines to police and fire departments in all of the jurisdictions served by Metro. Public address systems on all trains and platforms facilitate communications from Metrorail train operators and station managers. Also, passenger-to-train operator intercoms are located inside all rail cars, one at each end, and there are passenger-to-station manager intercoms on all station platforms and landings and in all elevators. Metrobus Metrobus operates bus service on 350 routes on 135 lines throughout the Metro region utilizing 12,216 bus stops and 2,398 shelters. All buses are accessible to people with disabilities and bike racks are available for use on all buses. The entire bus fleet is 6 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Chapter 1. Introduction to Metro equipped with two-way radio links to the operations control center, emergency radio silent alarms, and automatic vehicle locators. The Next Bus service provides customers information on Metrobus arrival times at a particular bus stop.. It uses satellite technology to find specific locations of a bus and sends the estimated arrival time of the bus to customers via mobile devices. In addition, security cameras are installed on 803 buses. Currently, the fleet comprises 1,480 buses of varying sizes and capacities. In FY 2009, more than 133 million trips were taken on Metrobus. MetroAccess MetroAccess is a shared-ride, door-to-door paratransit service for people whose disability prevents them from using bus or rail.. The MetroAccess system operates a fleet of over 500 vans and sedans and provides 2.1 million passenger trips annually. Service is available seven days a week, from 5 AM to midnight Monday through Thursday, from 5 AM to 3 AM on Friday, from 7 AM to 3 AM on Saturday, and from 7 AM to midnight on Sunday 7 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Approved Fiscal 2010 Annual Budget Chapter 1. Introduction to Metro Table 1.1 Sequence of Metrorail Openings Line Segment Stations Miles Date Red Farragut North to Rhode Island Ave 5 4.6 3/29/1976 Red Gallery Pl-Chinatown 1 0 12/15/1976 Red To Dupont Circle 1 1.1 1/17/1977 Blue/Orange National Airport to Stadium-Armory 17 11.8 7/1/1977 Red To Silver Spring 4 5.7 2/6/1978 Orange To New Carrollton 5 7.4 11/20/1978 Orange To Ballston-MU 4 3 12/1/1979 Blue To Addison Road 3 3.6 11/22/1980 Red To Van Ness-UDC 3 2.1 12/5/1981 Yellow Gallery Pl-Chinatown to Pentagon 1 3.3 4/30/1983 Blue To Huntington 4 4.2 12/17/1983 Red To Grosvenor 5 6.8 8/25/1984 Red To Shady Grove 4 7 12/15/1984 Orange To Vienna/Fairfax-GMU 4 9.1 6/7/1986 Red To Wheaton 2 3.2 9/22/1990 To U St/African-Amer CivilWar Green Memorial/Cardozo 3 1.7 5/11/1991 Blue To Van Dorn Street 1 3.9 6/15/1991 Green To Anacostia 3 2.9 12/28/1991 Green To Greenbelt 4 7 12/11/1993 Blue To Franconia-Springfield 1 3.3 6/29/1997 Red To Glenmont 1 1.4 7/25/1998 Green Columbia Heights to Fort Totten 2 2.9 9/18/1999 Green To Branch Ave 5 6.5 1/13/2001 Blue To Largo Town Center 2 3.2 12/18/2004 Red New York Avenue 1 0 11/20/2004 8