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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

The Next Step in Muni Reform

SPUR Report
Following the success of Proposition E, SPUR calls on the SFMTA to expand transit through programs to for obtaining funding and building infrastructure.

What's Next for Muni

SPUR Report
With the new agency and leadership in place, SPUR recommends priority reforms in service planning, transit-first, labor-management relations, service standards, new revenues and land use coordination.

City Carshare

Urbanist Article
This is an introduction to the core principle of car-sharing: that providing the mobility of cars without requiring private ownership will reduce their use. It reports on the creation of the new nonprofit City CarShare.

Victory on Muni Reform

Urbanist Article
A review of SPUR’s work to reform Muni starts in 1995 and ends with a hopeful look ahead after the passage of Proposition E, which created the Municipal Transportation Agency.

California High Speed Rail Project

SPUR Report
SPUR’s call for a high-speed rail system addresses seven basic questions, from technology to station locations, route alignment and funding.

Smart Region, Smart Growth

Urbanist Article
This article presents a smart growth alternative to the proposed $88 billion Regional Transportation Plan – better fund transit, restrict parking and integrate land use and transportation planning.
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