SPUR is joining with the San José Downtown Association to call for a Downtown San José station entrance on the south side of Santa Clara Street. In addition to the restaurants and other entertainment venues that make it a destination, major office and residential developments are currently being planned and moving forward south of Santa Clara Street.

SPUR encourages the Caltrain Board to focus on setting aside differences to avoid a fiscal cliff.

A future without high-quality rail service connecting communities along the Peninsula is not a future we wish to imagine. Unfortunately, t here is no certainty that we will see, in the near term, another federal COVID-19 fiscal rescue package for public transit. However, without a dedicated source of revenue, Caltrain could be forced to cease operations by the end of the year.

SPUR applauded MTC's focus on maintaining existing transportation infrastructure and funding low-cost, high-performing transit projects.SPUR called on MTC to deliver more coordinated regional transit connections and noted that the current proposal achieves less than two-thirds of the state-manded greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Finally, SPUR called on MTC to move the proposed Caltrain extension to downtown San Francisco into phase I.