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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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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

What Is a Parkway?

Urbanist Article
SPUR President Jim Chappell makes a case for the integration of landscaping and engineering in highway design, noting that highways today, like Doyle Drive, need not abandon the earlier concept of parkways.

On the Level

Urbanist Article
Tom Radulovich discusses the effectiveness of city-transport balance, and recommends ways to improve San Francisco’s “balkanized” transit services into a larger, multimodal, regional agency.

Community Vision/Regional Action

Urbanist Article
TALC discusses their start, uniting social justice groups and environmental policy, running smart campaigns, and using the media to spur action. Building coalitions need common vision and compromise.

Muni's Vision for Rapid Transit

Urbanist Article
SPUR outlines Muni improvements for 12 major corridors and locates potential revenue to create a thriving and seamless transit network.

Planning for Growth

SPUR Report
SPUR makes four recommendations to expand the successful transit impact development fee.

Towards Transit-Oriented Development

Urbanist Article
This article examines legislative and administrative actions necessary to change the public attitude about high-density development served by transit.
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