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Traffic and Transportation Long Range Plans
There are several Traffic & Transportation planning documents that will inform capital projects over the next
20 years. As funding opportunities present themselves, individual projects will be brought before the Council
for consideration and budget appropriation. Additionally, some projects are included in more than one of the
planning documents listed below, as these planning documents often overlap in scope and purpose in the
processes of long range planning for the City. The seven planning documents are detailed below.
VTP 2035
VTP 2035 (January 2009) is the long range vision for transportation in Santa Clara County. The Valley
Transportation Authority (VTA), in its role as the Congestion Management Agency (CMA) for Santa Clara
County, is responsible for preparing and periodically updating the VTP every 4-5 years on a cycle coinciding
with the update of the Bay Area’s Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). VTP 2035 identifies major regional
transportation programs and projects for Santa Clara County, and presents priorities for Federal and State
transportation funding against funding constraints. The plan also includes projects that do not meet the VTP
criteria for constrained funding, but are considered to be improvements of regional significance. These are
identified in the plan as unconstrained projects. VTP 2035 projects $15B will be available over the next 25
years, primarily from federal and state sources. Projects must appear in the VTP and RTP in order to be
eligible for most federal, state and regional funding. The City submits candidate projects which are
subsequently ranked and determined to be constrained or unconstrained.
It should be noted that the VTP is intended solely as a planning and policy framework, and the projects
identified for the City of Sunnyvale are not to be used as a programming document for which the City is
responsible for carrying out. Highway and expressway projects are shown here for informational purposes
only.