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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

Don’t Dismiss Transportation Pilot Projects: We Need More Wild Ideas

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When cities and transit agencies pilot new kinds of services, the early ridership numbers are not always strong, leading many to dismiss the new ideas — and the agencies for trying them. But this skepticism undermines the purpose of pilots: to test new ways to get people out of their cars. Rather than pooh-poohing pilots, we should embrace them as a chance to learn.

How California Can Stop Sprawl, Reduce Emissions and Strengthen Regional Economies — All at the Same Time

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California can address many of its issues at once by adding new jobs and housing around passenger rail stations. In September, SPUR partnered with Governor Newsom's Regions Rise Together initiative to hold a half-day workshop for California cities with rail stations. Together we asked: How can the state help cities spur compact growth and economic development near rail?

SPUR Supports MTC Evolving Its Role in Investments, Land Uses and Project Delivery

Advocacy Letter
There are conversations happening throughout the region about how to improve project delivery and it is important for MTC to identify shared solutions. With over $300 billion transportation project needs, there is potential to have many tens of billions of dollars of cost overruns. If we reduce costs by 10%, that puts $30 billion back into our communities.

SPUR Supports an Ambitious Vision for the Future of Caltrain

Advocacy Letter
SPUR strongly recommends that the Peninsula Joint Powers Board adopt the 2040 Caltrain Long-Range Service Vision. SPUR also encourages the Board to move forward with a process to develop an organizational vision that matches the scale of its service vision, and suggests four ways to structure that process.

SPUR supports transit priority lanes on Broadway in Oakland

Advocacy Letter
SPUR recommends the Public Works Committee of Oakland City Council support transit priority lanes on Broadway between 11th and 20th street. SPUR strongly believes that Downtown Oakland has the right conditions to create a world-class surface transportation network for buses, bikes, pedestrians and other vehicles.
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