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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 Supports Car-Free JFK Drive

Advocacy Letter
SPUR has sent a letter to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors urging them to make JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park permanently car-free.

SPUR Joins More Than 20 Organizations to Oppose SB 1410

Advocacy Letter
SB 1410 would mandate the revision of the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) based methodology to analyze transportation impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that was carefully developed over many years pursuant to SB 743 (2013).

SPUR Supports AB 1778

Advocacy Letter
SPUR supports AB 1778, which would require the Department of Transportation to consult the California Healthy Places Index (HPI) prior to the start of highway widening, highway extensions and interchange expansion projects that would facilitate vehicular travel projects to determine if the project area meets the approved HPI score or be denied funding permits and personnel time.
Policy brief report cover with light blue background. In white text: Header: SPUR logo, Policy Brief, April 2022, Title: Accelerating Sustainable Transportation in California, Subtitle: An analysis of Senate Bill 288 and recommendations to extend and improve the law

Accelerating Sustainable Transportation in California

Policy Brief
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate pollution, California will need to build out the infrastructure to make walking, biking and riding transit the default ways to get around. Senate Bill 288, which expires this year, makes it faster to build commonsense sustainable transportation projects. SPUR recommends that the state extend and improve the law by passing SB 922. This brief provides background on SB 288 and describes the impact of the law, including case studies on projects built since it was passed.

SPUR Encourages a Regionally Coordinated Approach to Free and Reduced Transit Fare Programs in Upcoming State Budget

Advocacy Letter
SPUR participated in a joint letter from six San Francisco Bay Area groups highly engaged in supporting the recovery of the Bay Area's public transit system - SPUR, Seamless Bay Area, TransForm, Bay Area Council, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Joint Venture Silicon Valley - regarding potential funding for transit and fare programs in the upcoming budget, and the importance of encouraging regional coordination and fare integration to help rebuild transit ridership.
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