Transportation Funding

Wiener and Arreguín launch Senate Bill 63, another attempt to get a sales tax onto the ballot to keep the Bay Area moving

Seamless Bay Area reviews the budget picture for transit in the Bay Area--and asks for your help in supporting it

This time in Eastern Contra Costa, with plans to build a new highway, State Route 239.

Over $4 billion in voter-approved funds to complete first 171-mile segment in limbo

Analyst is confident that even if the Uber tax fails, the idea of taxing Uber and Lyft is not going away

More trains, more frequency, more speed coming to California

The California Bicycle Coalition, aka CalBike, continues to push for increasing funding for the Active Transportation Program, which currently receives $120 million per year. The bike coalition wants the state to add $100 million to the program, which sounds like a lot but is roughly one percent of the total transportation budget—even though bike and walking trips make up nearly 19 percent of all trips made in California. The state budget planning process, in which the two legislative houses and the governor negotiate a final budget by June, is one avenue for getting more funding.

The timing seems less than coincidental, announcing a cut in transportation funding days after announcing a pilot program to study road users' fees--but the message is just as stark. The State of California is running out of money to fund transportation.