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Transportation

We believe: Walking, biking, and taking transit should be the safest
and best ways to get around for people of all ages and abilities.

Our Goal


• Reduce emissions from transportation.

• Reduce driving.

• Build complete communities around transit.

• Make Bay Area transit work for the 21st century.

• Eliminate traffic deaths.

a bus traveling unimpeded in a transit-only lane

SPUR Report

Making Roads Work for Transit

Transit delays and unreliability can make riding the bus a nonstarter for those who have other ways to get around. Giving transit vehicles priority on Bay Area roads can deliver the speed and reliability improvements needed to get more people on buses and out of cars.
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cyclist riding on a road with separated bike lanes

Policy Brief

Accelerating Sustainable Transportation in California

To fight climate pollution, California will need to build out the infrastructure to make walking, biking and riding transit the default ways to get around. SPUR makes the case to extend state legislation that is making it faster to build commonsense sustainable transportation projects.
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A mostly empty parking lot viewed from above

SPUR Report

The Bay Area Parking Census

For decades, parking in the Bay Area has been both ubiquitous and uncounted. SPUR and the Mineta Transportation Institute have produced the San Francisco Bay Area Parking Census, the most detailed assessment of parking infrastructure ever produced for the region.
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Updates and Events

SPUR Support for AB 2438

Advocacy Letter
Even with visionary transportation policies and plans to address the climate crisis, we are finding that our state programs have been slow to adapt. SPUR supports Assembly Bill 2438 (Friedman), because it requires the state to incorporate its climate goals into the transportation programs. AB 2438 will help to develop a transparent and accountable process for how projects are evaluated on safety, accessibility, reliability, and the state’s climate goals.

SPUR pushes for a customer-first approach on BART Phase II

Advocacy Letter
We are deeply invested in the success of BART Phase II, and have spent many hours working with VTA, BART and the City of San Jose on the station refinements task force to ensure the best possible project gets built. We commend the VTA project team, which has taken our concerns seriously and developed new ideas that would, if advanced, improve the project significantly . We strongly recommend making sure this project includes at least two entrances at both the downtown and Diridon stations.

SPUR supports AB2206 to make California's parking cash-out law work

Advocacy Letter
SPUR is sponsoring AB2206, authored by Assemblymember Alex Lee, which clarifies California's parking cash-out law. This law requires that for employees who choose to give-up their parking space and commute without driving a vehicle, qualifying employers must offer the cash equivalent of any parking subsidy that the employer is offering.

SPUR supports San José's Move San José Plan and Transit First Policy

Advocacy Letter
On August 9th, San José's City Council approved Move San José, a citywide transportation plan that sets forth transportation policies focusing on achieving the City’s safety, equity, and climate goals. The city's Transit First Policy was also approved, ensuring that the city directs efforts toward making transit safer and more useful.

SPUR and partners urge state agencies to seek funding for transit operations

Advocacy Letter
The state’s ambitious goals for reducing transportation emissions are severely threatened by a lack of operations funding for public transit, which could force transit agencies to make major service cuts within 2-3 years. Service cuts would seriously undermine the state's state's ability to reduce vehicle miles traveled and transportation emissions.
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