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Maria Lombardo

Title: Chief Deputy Director, San Francisco County Transportation Authority

Ms. Lombardo was appointed Deputy Director for the San Francisco County Transportation Authority in May 2001 and Chief Deputy Director in 2004. The Authority is the sub-regional transportation planning and programming agency for San Francisco County. It develops the long-range countywide transportation plan, acts as Congestion Management Agency for San Francisco, and administers the Prop K half-cent transportation sales tax (approved in 2003, superseding the original 1989 sales tax) and the Prop AA $10 vehicle registration fee approved in 2010). Ms. Lombardo is responsible for developing Strategic Plans to guide implementation of the Prop K and Prop AA programs; overseeing allocation of these funds; programming federal, state, and regional funds to San Francisco transportation projects; and providing strategy and policy input for internal and external initiatives. Ms. Lombardo has nearly two decades of experience with the Authority, having played a lead role in development of the Prop K and Prop AA Expenditure Plans and having served in various policy, programming and planning capacities. Ms. Lombardo also briefly worked for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). Ms. Lombardo obtained a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is past president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar and mother of two young children who are already seasoned public transit riders and cyclists.