Regional Transit Measure
- In order for all Bay Area residents to have affordable, abundant, accessible mobility, each of our 27 transit agencies needs to provide significantly more service. That means more frequency, more routes, more hours of service, and better coordination between agencies. Bay Area residents deserve to be able to depend on transit for all their various mobility needs in their neighborhood and throughout the wider community. However, many agencies are on the cusp of having to cut service while other agencies are woefully undeserving their communities.Bay Area voters must be given the opportunity to vote for additional funding for transit agencies to provide the high quality transit services our communities deserve. Federal and state funding will be important, but is not guaranteed, and we need to make sure to help ourselves.
- The “Connect Bay Area Act” by Bay Area State Senators Wahab and Wiener (SB1031) would authorize putting a critically important regional public transportation measure on the 2026 ballot that would enable voters to provide the funding needed to stop service cuts to Caltrain, BART, AC Transit, and fund service improvements to all 27 Bay Area transit agencies..The measure would also strengthen service coordination among the agencies. As Bay Area residents and workers, our lives take us across city and county lines.The current lack of agency coordination makes transit unnecessarily difficult, holds back ridership, and puts a heavy toll on people who depend on transit and those with long commutes due to our region’s housing affordability crisis. Transbay Coalition has been campaigning to support transit funding and coordination via this bill through a letter writing campaign, in-person flyering, speaking out at government hearings, and organizing educational events
