Public Transportation

Leaders plan to put a regional tax measure on the ballot, but first they need to show what those taxes would do for the Bay Area transit system

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The money will be awarded from the state's Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LCTOP), which is funded by California's cap-and-trade system.

The post Caltrans Approves $192M for Clean Transit appeared first on Streetsblog California.

A.B. 819 offers California the opportunity to decriminalize fare evasion and replace punitive measures with more equitable approaches.

The post Op-Ed: Why Is Fare Evasion Punished More Severely than Speeding? appeared first on Streetsblog California.

"To be clear, I'm not advocating for gate jumping. But I am advocating that we direct our attention to what truly matters." 

The post Opinion: Fights Over Fare Evasion Are Missing the Point appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Marijuana is legal in some form in 23 states. So why should bus drivers get fired for using it when they're not behind the wheel?

The post How a New Drug Testing Rule from USDOT Could Help Alleviate the Bus Operator Crisis appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

BART ridership is still only at about forty percent of its pre-pandemic levels, and that media-fed perception of danger might be one factor in the slow recovery rate.

The post It’s Safe to Ride Transit appeared first on Streetsblog California.

While some Bay Area legislators supported the idea of raising bridge tolls to help fund transit, there was enough opposition that its author, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), decided to put S.B. 532 on ice for now.

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