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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

Why California Accidentally Encouraged Driving, and How That's About to Change

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California cities that want to become more environmentally sustainable are being held back by, of all things, the California Environmental Quality Act. Here’s how an environmental regulation became one of the biggest forces in widening roads to accommodate more cars — and why the state is finally changing this outmoded standard.

SPUR Comments on San Jose-San Francisco High Speed Rail EIR Notice of Preparation

Advocacy Letter
SPUR suggests some considerations that we think should be addressed in the EIR/EIS for the San Francisco-San Jose segment of California High-Speed Rail. The letter emphasizes Diridon Station, the Diridon Station Area and Central San Jose given that San Jose is High-Speed Rail's gateway to the Bay Area.

SPUR Supports Proposed CEQA Changes to Remove Auto LOS

Advocacy Letter
SPUR supports updates to CEQA that would eliminate auto LOS as a measure of transportation performance. We recommend the use of Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) as the most useful measure of environmental impacts from transportation associated with a project.

High-Speed Rail Gets Real for the Bay Area

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This year, the California High-Speed Rail Authority announced that the first segment of high-speed rail will connect the Central Valley to San Jose, instead of Los Angeles. The Bay Area will become the proving ground for how high-speed rail can transform California’s cities. What do we need to do to get it right?​

Time to Plan Big for the Future of Downtown Oakland

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Public and private investment have sparked a renaissance in downtown Oakland, but as the attention and interest grow, downtown finds itself in a bind. The current revival hasn’t been strong enough to attract new construction, and institutions, residents and businesses are being displaced. The Downtown Oakland Specific Plan, now in process, provides an opportunity to address displacement and think big about the future of downtown.
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