By Joseph Rodgers Over 1.2 million people in the Bay rely on transit according to recent Clipper data. That’s more than double the entire population of Wyoming! But despite playing such a vital role to our regional and state economy, transit agencies around the San Francisco Bay Area face large budget deficits and are in […]
The state budget signed by the governor at the end of June provided helpful funding to avert the fiscal cliff facing major Bay Area transit services. But the funding did not go far enough to prevent cuts and service degradation to agencies with upcoming fiscal cliffs including BART, Caltrain, SFMTA and AC Transit. As summarized
During peak morning commuting hours, more than 40,000 people travel across the Bay to San Francisco each hour, with 75% of these commuters using public transit including BART, AC Transit, or a ferry. However, even with existing planned investments to improve transit service, we are not prepared to meet the rapidly increasing demand. While there
Great news! The language for the bill to improve bus travel times on the Bay Bridge and the approaches has been filled out and is a lot closer to being finalized. You can view the language for the bill, “AB-2824 Bay Bridge Fast Forward Program (Bonta)” here. Before, there was just “placeholder language” which is
