Bay Area transit needs to be much better, but it’s at risk of becoming much worse due to funding shortfalls. I urge you to support a 9-county regional measure that raises $1.5 billion or more annually, includes progressive revenue sources, prevents service cuts, improves service frequency and reliability, includes policies that enhance transit coordination amongst agencies, and expands transit to more communities.

All Bay Area residents deserve a fast, affordable, better integrated, and accessible public transit network. A 9-county ballot initiative with robust funding is the best way to achieve this vision.

As Bay Area residents and workers, our lives take us across city and county lines. But unlike the seamless driving experience that connects all local, county and state roads, our transit experience is far from smoothly coordinated. Lack of 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. A regional measure that vastly improves coordination amongst all 27 Bay Area transit agencies is critically important.

Without an abundant regional measure, many transit agencies will be forced to slash service: stranding riders, clogging our roads, fouling our air, and stalling our economy. Bay Area residents will be left with worse transit service and it will be much harder to implement the changes needed to make riding transit a seamless experience.

For the region to meet its climate, economic growth, affordability, air quality, public health, and justice goals we need drastically improved transit service. Bay Area residents deserve to be able to depend on transit for our various mobility needs in our neighborhoods and throughout the wider community.

Thank you for your consideration.