Many organizations are running campaigns to advocate for a better transportation system in the Bay Area. Learn about these campaigns and how you can get involved.
Transportation Questionnaire for Bay Area Candidates for Office that are on the March 2024 Ballot
Organization: Transbay Coalition
See responses to transportation questions from over 60 candidates for office across the 9 County Bay Area that will be on the March 5th 2024 Primary Ballot.
See what candidates for City Council, County Supervisor, State Assembly, State Senate and Congress have to say about transportation issues:
Project cosponsored with SPUR, Seamless Bay Area, San Francisco Transit Riders, Silicon Valley Bike Coalition, and Bike East Bay
*All candidates for office in the 9 County Bay Area were approached with the opportunity to complete the questionnaire and given time to do so. Candidates who did not respond, could not be reached, or declined to complete the questionnaire have not been included.
Bay Bridge Bus Lanes
Organization: Transbay Coalition
Over 80 bus routes travel across the Bay Bridge, bringing tens of thousands of passengers in and out of San Francisco every day. With Assembly Bill 455 in the State Senate, now is the perfect opportunity to speed up buses on the bridge
Improving BART to Silicon Valley
Organization: Transbay Coalition
Phase II of the Silicon Valley BART extension is one of the most important transit projects in the Bay Area, but design compromises and high costs could hamper future transit. Fortunately, key decision-makers have indicated they may be willing to review aspects of the project
Megaproject Delivery Reform
Organization: Transbay Coalition
Too often, key infrastructure projects run over budget and behind schedule. A group of reformers is asking the legislature to fund research into these high costs, to ensure sustainable infrastructure projects can be delivered more efficiently
Seamless Transit
Organization: Seamless Bay Area
Seamless Bay Area’s mission is to transform the Bay Area’s fragmented public transit into a world-class, unified, equitable, and widely-used system by building a diverse movement for change and promoting policy reforms.
East Bay Bus Lanes
Organization: East Bay Transit Rider’s Union
The success of AC Transit’s Tempo BRT line shows how effective bus lanes can be. A number of streetscape projects are underway across the East Bay, and advocacy can help ensure that transit lanes are a part of these projects
Making Highways More Bus & Bike Friendly
Organization: Bike East Bay
As part of the 2022 State Highway Operation & Protection Program, (SHOPP) Caltrans will spend twenty billion dollars on highway & interchange projects. By advocating for these projects to include complete streets elements, this program can help improve sustainable transportation
Regional Transit Funding Measure
Organization: Voices for Public Transportation
Voices for Public Transportation is a coalition of organizations advocating for improved transit in the Bay Area. VPT aims to build an equitably-funded, world class transit system for the Bay.
Stop Highway Expansion in South San Francisco
Organization: Sustainable South City
Highway 101 is slated to receive nine miles of new express lanes in South San Francisco. Highway widening is bad for communities and bad for the environment, so these lanes should be implemented by converting existing general-traffic lanes, and not by building new ones.