Transit Advocacy

The letter comes a day before Governor Newsom is scheduled to announce his May Budget Revision

The post More than 30 Organizations Ask the Governor to Lift Transit Funding Freeze appeared first on Streetsblog California.

Transit agencies were caught off guard by a 60-day funding freeze announced on the day they were expecting the allocations

The post Sudden State Funding Freeze Leaves Transit Agencies Hanging appeared first on Streetsblog California.

Despite our region’s long-standing support for public transit, it’s frustrating that Bay Area transit doesn't work well for more people. Ridership was stagnant prior to the pandemic, and is now at about 70 percent of pre-pandemic levels—one of the weakest recoveries in the nation—creating a financial crisis for Bay Area transit agencies that threaten a future ‘downward spiral’ of cuts.

Meeting California’s ambitious climate goals will require getting people out of cars and on to trains and buses. That shift could require as much as a five-fold to ten-fold increase in transit ridership above pre-COVID levels by 2045.

The post With a New Statewide Task Force, California Is Getting Real about Transit Transformation appeared first on Streetsblog California.

Riders are beginning to see real progress on many of the long-discussed initiatives to integrate the region's transit systems, from fare integration to wayfinding to transit priority and more. It’s important to recognize how far we’ve come - seamless transit is finally taking shape in the Bay Area thanks to riders speaking up, elected officials championing integration, and greater than ever attention from Transit General Managers (Transit GMs) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). We summarize the impact and timeline of some important collaborative efforts in this post. 

Chocolate, watches, and transit --- three things you can't go wrong with in Switzerland. Advocates want general managers at Bay Area transit agencies to start using Swiss models for customer service, wayfinding, fares, and operations

Two of the founders of the Bay Area's advocacy group dedicated to fare integration and rational schedules talk about a half-decade of fighting for better transit and what's likely to happen in the next five years.

Advocates are handing their DOTs a list of transformative transit projects that could heal the harms of the past — and a list of boondoggles that deserve to be scrapped.

...and September is Transit Month