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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.

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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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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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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 Seeks to Improve the SFMTA Budget

News /
SPUR's Transportation Policy Director today will tell the Board of Supervisors that the SFMTA budget approved by the SFMTA Board last week does not do enough to maintain quality transit service in these tight budget times. The SFMTA is leaving too much on the table in the form of new revenue and cost savings, at least $20 million of budget space that could be used…

The Future of Downtown San Francisco

SPUR Report
How can we bring more jobs into the region's most transit-rich employment center? SPUR proposes a sustainable plan for transit-oriented job growth in the Bay Area.

A Mid-life Crisis for Regional Rail

SPUR Report
Building a better rail system is critical for the Bay Area. The top priority should be expanding capacity in the urban cores of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. SPUR recommends five ways to make this happen.

SPUR Comments on the Eastern Neighborhoods Transportation Plan

Advocacy Letter
SPUR's major recommendations include increasing the frequency and capacity of transit along the Mission and 16th Street Corridors, supporting a new Caltrain stop at 16th Street, building the bicycle network, retaining the removal of density controls and directing the TA to study expanding BRT to Potrero Avenue.

SPUR Comments on the Regional Transportation Plan 2035

Advocacy Letter
SPUR commends the MTC on its inclusion of new performance measures to guide decision about potential transportation investments, but urges the MTC staff to revisit the projects in the RTP which do not meet the new goals, namely $29 billion in expansion projects.
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