Transit Center, seismic improvements and extensions for BART, Muni Metro's T Third Street, AC Transit bus service upgrades, and more. The list of projects — called the “Regional Traffic Relief Plan” and included in the enabling legislation — will be financed by the $1 increase in tolls. MTC will be responsible for allocating the toll. BATA will be responsible for issuing bonds and for submitting updates on the Regional Traffic Relief Plan to the state Legislature. Regional Measure 3 In 2017, the California Senate passed SB 595 to put Regional Measure 3 (RM3) on the ballot in the nine Bay Area counties. The expenditure plan for the project would allocate $4.45 billion to various transportation projects including funding for the San Francisco Downtown Rail Extension, fleet expansions for Muni Metro and BART, ferry service expansion, various road projects, and Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit expansion. RM3 was on the ballot in the June 2018 election in the nine counties and required a majority vote to pass. As of June 13, 2018, 55% of the votes in the counties were in favor, ensuring that the measure would pass once the votes are certified in July 2018. A lawsuit challenging the legal status of the toll increase was filed but was ruled against in April 2019. Subsequently, the decision was appealed and a state appeals court ruled again in favor of the tolls in June 2020. However, the decision was again appealed to the California Supreme Court and a decision is still pending as of October 2022. Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program Since 1998, drivers on all Bay Area state-owned bridges have paid a $1 seismic surcharge to help finance a seismic retrofit program to strengthen and reinforce bridge structures and roadways on five of the bridges in the event of a major earthquake. On January 1, 2007, the seismic surcharge increased to $2 per vehicle, and then increased to $3 on July 1, 2010. 2021 Electronic Toll Collection System In December of 2020, The Bay Area Toll Authority announced that starting in 2021, a new all-electronic toll collection system would be launched at the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward bridges. This would not affect the statements of bridge customers with FasTrak® toll tags or a License Plate Account, but patrons not enrolled in these programs will now receive a monthly invoice for all toll bridge