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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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Updates and Events

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Six SPUR-Sponsored Bills Will Become California Law

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The 2024 state legislative year ended with a number of big wins for SPUR and our partners in affordable housing and transportation advocacy. Governor Newsom signed hundreds of bills into law, including six pieces of SPUR-sponsored legislation that will make housing faster and easier to build, support development of interim housing for unhoused people, and make dangerous roads safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Funding Regional Transit — and Managing Risk in Uncertain Times

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SPUR is serving on an MTC-appointed select committee to explore legislation that would put a regional transit revenue measure on the ballot in a future election. Two other regional funding measure efforts — SB 1031 for transit, and the BAHFA bond for housing — were both paused earlier this year, casting a cautionary light on regional funding measures. Our recent comments to the committee focus on how to set up the current transit proposal for success.

SPUR requests Governor Newsom's signature on SB960 (Wiener), the Complete Streets bill.

Advocacy Letter
SPUR is proud to co-sponsor Senate Bill 960 (Wiener) and respectfully requests Governor Newsom's signature on the bill. Signing the bill into law will signal California’s leading commitment to safety and sustainability, and willingness to tackle stubborn trends in traffic deaths and emissions in the transportation sector.

SPUR requests Governor Newsom's signature on AB 2503

Advocacy Letter
SPUR requests Governor Newsom's signature on AB 2503 (Lee). AB 2503 will streamline the planning and delivery of zero emission rail projects in California to help reduce vehicles mile traveled, greenhouse gas emissions and local particulate matter.

SPUR provides comments on development of potential regional transportation measure

Advocacy Letter
SPUR CEO Alicia John-Baptiste provided extensive written comments to MTC"s Transportation Revenue Measure Select Committee regarding the ongoing development of a potential future ballot measure to fund Bay Area transit. Given uncertainties about the 2024 national election and the future mood of the Bay Area electorate, SPUR is strongly advocating for an approach that keeps multiple revenue measure options on the table.
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