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 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.

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 ClimatePlan network partners comment on one-year progress report of CAPTI, including measures of success, funding for programs, the state's equity index for project evaluation, and more.

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.