Regional Transportation Improvement Program (RTIP)

Purpose

Every two years, the Shasta Regional Transportation Agency (SRTA) is responsible for developing and adopting a Regional Transportation Improvement Program (RTIP) — a five-year program for planned transportation projects. The program includes a listing of recommended capital outlays for transportation improvements, including new facilities, rehabilitation, and operational improvements using Regional Improvement Program funds available to the Shasta region. The RTIP is one of two feed documents for the development of the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), the other feed document being the Interregional Transportation Improvement Program developed by Caltrans. SRTA updated project selection priorities on October 22, 2013.

For information on any of the RTIP documents, please contact Executive Director Sean Tiedgen or Senior Transportation Planner Jennifer Pollom.

2026 RTIP

The SRTA Board of Directors approved the Shasta 2026 RTIP on December 18, 2025, for incorporation into the 2026 STIP, which is scheduled for adoption at the March 2026 California Transportation Commission meeting. SRTA was advised by the California Transportation Commission that $4,152,000 in new programming capacity was available. The final 2026 RTIP programs $4,899,000 in new programming capacity, which includes funding for the following projects: a) Planning Programming, and Monitoring and b) Fix 5 Cascade Gateway. All programming (current and new) leverages over $150 million in combined federal, state, regional, and local funding toward transportation investments in the region.

2024 RTIP

The SRTA Board of Directors adopted the 2024 RTIP on December 14, 2023, for incorporation into the 2024 STIP, which is scheduled for adoption at the March 2024 California Transportation Commission meeting. SRTA was advised by the California Transportation Commission that $7,170,000 in new programming capacity was available. The final draft 2024 RTIP programs $5,774,070 in new programming capacity, which includes funding for the following projects: a) Planning Programming, and Monitoring; b) Fix 5 Cascade Gateway; c) Butte Street Boogie Network Project; and d) Victor Improvement Project. Additionally, $5,201,000 in carryover programming for prior or current projects is recommended. This results in programming of $10,975,070 over five years, which will leverage over $139 million in combined federal, state, regional, and local funding toward transportation investments in the region.

2022 RTIP

The SRTA Board of Directors adopted the 2022 RTIP in December, for incorporation into the 2022 STIP in March 2022. For development of the 2022 RTIP, SRTA was advised by the California Transportation Commission that $6,271,000 of new programming capacity was available to the region. The 2022 RTIP programs the entire amount. SRTA has approved new funding for: a) the Fix 5 Cascade Gateway Construction b) planning, programming and monitoring; and c) the Cottonwood Active Transportation Trunkline Express (CATTLE) Project.

2020 RTIP

SRTA was issued $3.583 million of new programming capacity for development of the 2020 RTIP. The Shasta 2020 RTIP, approved December 10, 2019, includes the following programming recommendations: the Downtown to Turtle Bay Non-Motorized Improvements ($1,270,000 – prior year funds); the Fix 5 Cascade Gateway Project ($5.615 million: $1.6 million prior year funds; $4.015 million new funds); Planning, Programming and Monitoring funding for SRTA ($619,000: $438,000 prior; and $181,000 new); and Cascade Lasso Active Transportation Program Project ($494,000 new funds). Proposed funding for the Fix 5 Cascade Gateway Project includes $1,107,455 of Highway Infrastructure Program monies.

2018 RTIP

On December 12, 2017, the SRTA Board of Directors adopted the Shasta 2018 RTIP, contributing $17.75 million in regional funds to five projects: $13.722 million to Phase I of the Interstate 5 Redding to Anderson Six-Lane Project (I-5 RASL=$30.663 million total project cost); $400,000 to the Sacramento River Trail (Diestelhorst) to Downtown Non-Motorized Improvements ($2.638 million total project cost); $1.27 million to the Downtown to Turtle Bay Non-Motorized Improvements ($7.0 million total project cost); $1.6 million to the I-5 North Redding Six Lane environmental and project approval phase ($1.6 million total); and $628,000 of Planning, Programming and Monitoring funding for SRTA for five years.