Read up on Bay Area candidate thoughts on public transit, biking, walking, and other transportation issues before you vote this June primary election!

This June election, voters have the opportunity to continue funding SMART service in Sonoma and Marin Counties and paving the way for future expansions to the north and east. That's why Seamless Bay Area and @transbaycoalition.bsky.social urge Yes on Measure B, the SMART Initiative.

🚍 Grab some limited-edition swag and support our advocacy and organizing. This new sticker, art print, and t-shirt are designed by Bay Area artist @bionyo.bsky.social. Available for folks who make donations before June 30th - so get them while you can!

California regulators want to give billions to Big Polluters and cut transit and affordable housing funding. Speak out to defend public transit and make sure polluters pay! actionnetwork.org/letters/carb...

Bay Area residents, check out the Transportation Candidate Questionnaire for the 2026 primary election! There's even a snazzy map tool made by yours truly 😎

Andddd just like that, we've passed 60,000 signature gathered by community advocates! We have until the end of May to gather signatures so help get transit funding on the ballot at luma.com/connectbayarea.

We just published responses from over 80 Bay Area candidates running in the June Primary sharing their perspectives on making transit a more desirable option, designing our streets to be safer for all, and addressing the transportation sector’s role in climate change.

Community advocates are nearing 60k signatures gathered for Connect Bay Area ballot initiative. This effort co-lead by us and @transbaycoalition.bsky.social is the largest mobilization of Bay Area transit riders in recent memory. 900+ volunteer signature gatherers have been trained at 500+ events.

Centralized state capacity, multi-year funding framework, and ‘project sponsorship’ help keep Sweden's transit capital costs low and build their excellent, high-ridership transit services. California should look to Sweden’s example as it considers strategies to reform project delivery.

San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties are posed to get large new investments in public transit if we pass the Connect Bay Area ballot measure. Please speak up at upcoming city council meetings where they will discuss the expenditure plan. Sign up and we'll send you a text when it's time for comment.

AC Transit reveals plan to cut service by 31% of 2019 levels unless we pass the Connect Bay Area ballot initiative. The approved plan calls for minimizing complete elimination of entire lines and focuses cuts on span of service and frequency reductions. Help prevent cuts at luma.com/connectbayarea

The recording from our Moneyball for Transit event is now on Youtube! Learn from experts what steps the Bay Area has already taken towards more coordinated service and what is needed to create a fast, convenient, and integrated transit network.

It's great that we passed a new regional transit priority policy, but it's unfortunate that it mainly focuses on requiring cities to get transit agency approval for road diets. There are serious holdups getting all cities along a road to OK transit priority projects, which will need further reform.

The Bay Area's new Transit Priority Policy will require cities/counties to coordinate with transit agencies when they plan MTC-funded changes to streets and roads. This is a first-step towards faster and more reliable bus service, but further steps are needed to enhance the policy's effectiveness.

Help gather signatures for Connect Bay Area, the 5-county regional funding measure to save transit. Join us at one or several of the 60+ events happening this month. Check out all upcoming events at: luma.com/connectbayarea

Tonight at 6pm PST!

The Bay Area's new transit map is out and it comes with one incredibly exciting change: parks accessible by transit services! Let's talk regional wayfinding to parks and destinations 🧵

How can we create a connected transit network with faster, more reliable service and get projects that improve transit done quicker and at a lower cost? Come to our upcoming event to learn how we can make progress on all these goals at once with a proven approach: "Service-led planning."

How can we create a connected network with faster, more reliable service and finish projects that improve transit quicker and at a lower cost? Come to our upcoming event to learn how we can make progress on all these goals at once with a proven approach: "Service-led planning."

The Bay Area would be unrecognizable without BART and the other transit agencies that carry ~1 million trips every day. BART, as we know it today, will collapse unless we pass the Connect Bay Area transit ballot measure.

Missed our Electrolink webinar? Check out the recording to learn why we need to electrify Metrolink, Surfliner, and Coaster, and hear from co-panelists @ndhapple.bsky.social and Senator Blakespear on how we do it. @movecalifornia.bsky.social @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social youtu.be/oDDYSLUCdpc?...

Very excited to say that the stars have aligned and NYU Marron/Transit Costs Project have landed a grant that will fund a second edition of Momentum, which will apply the high-throughput framework to major regional rail networks beyond the NY area. Our three big new cases: - NJT - SEPTA - METRA

At VTA board members are expressing frustration with the botched Clipper 2 rollout. Margaret Abe Koga asks about whether VTA should go off on its own to develop new technology, maybe working with Caltrain. This would be 30 year backwards to every agency with their own payment...

BART's newly released concepts for what they'll do if Connect Bay Area transit funding measure fails are terrifying. Phase 1: 63% train hours cut & 10 station closures Phase 2: Cumulative 70% train hours cut, 15 station closures Phase 3 (if required): END BART SERVICE We must pass the measure! 🧵

Transit officials and members of the public had some choice words for Cubic, the contractor responsible for Clipper, over the ongoing glitchy rollout of a new version of the fare payment system. www.kqed.org/news/12071026

> Structured Query Language (SQL) servers need to be clustered (currently standalone instances) (2/11) come on, man, people do that in their garage or closet for fun

This is a huge win for the Bay Area. Thanks to hard work and persistence with allies including @spur-urbanist.bsky.social @transbaycoalition.bsky.social @transformca.bsky.social, Bay Area transit will keep moving as we work on the Connect Bay Area ballot measure to keep transit moving and improving

utterly insane for Cubic to have a "we're still working on the most utterly basic scaling" slide a month and a half after launch

For people with tech background concerned about the Clipper 2 upgrade/migration, check out the Cubic slides being presented today at Clipper Executive Board. Many of the problems are failures of basic scaling and QA missing predictable corner cases. mtc.legistar.com/LegislationD...

Want to know what the looming Bay Area Transit cuts mean for people with disabilities & how we can fight back? Tune in to our webinar next week co-hosted by Community Resources for Independent Living! actionnetwork.org/events/what-...

The campaign to save Bay Area transit kicks off this Friday! Join events happening across the region as we start collecting the 200k signatures needed to get this initiative on the November ballot. luma.com/le1g7slf?tk=...

Missed yesterday's webinar? Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIka... @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social

THIS SATURDAY at 1:30pm, we’re putting on a South Bay vs. East Bay Postering Blitz Competition to see which team can put up posters at the most transit stations during a 1-hour period. Come out for an afternoon of fun, friendship, and putting up posters to help save transit! More details here:

The LOSSAN corridor is one of California's most important and iconic rail lines, but it faces major challenges. Reforms are needed to address fragmented governance, coordinate schedules and fares, and deliver infrastructure project more effectively. Read our recent blog by @shegabme.bsky.social.

Bay Area transit had some big wins in 2025 including: - 💵 The launch of free transfers - 🎉 Authorizing legislation for a 2026 regional ballot measure - 📞 Billions in state funding secured for transit - ✍️ Statewide recommendations to make delivering transit projects faster and cheaper

Happy New Year! Start the year off right with our webinar on how to better fund transit infrastructure for quicker, more cost-effective projects, next Thursday at 1 PM PST. @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social @publicenterprise.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/events/trans...

Join us @icgee.bsky.social @publicenterprise.bsky.social and @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social for a webinar about how transit funding holds back ambitious investments like electric rail that we need for climate action & affordable transportation. January 8th, 1-2 PST. actionnetwork.org/events/trans...

Speed safety cameras work. Track SF's program, initial results and evaluations here: www.sfmta.com/projects/spe...

Peninsula Car-Free Happy Hour in San Mateo this Sunday starting at 4:00pm!

Join us for a Transit and Housing Happy Hour in Mountain View! Most of the night will be for socializing, but we'll also be sharing how you can get plugged into efforts to pass the 2026 Bay Area transit funding measure and local efforts to build more housing near transit.

Calling young people 18-25 -apply for a student/youth seat on the Regional Network Management Customer Advisory Group advising MTC and agencies about regional transit coordination like integrated fares (including BayPass) and schedules. Deadline Friday 12/5 11:59pm www.surveymonkey.com/r/YC5TKVV

Reading Boris Lipkin's report on Lessons from California High Speed Rail. Good fodder for considering reforms to streamline projects. transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/defaul...

“Environmental review is not planning” is one of those statements that is so obviously true but nearly every thing about transportation institutions and environmental review in California/US pushes against it.

Investments in public transit have failed to provide the right incentives for infrastructure projects to get completed in an affordable and timely manner. Join this webinar to learn how reforms to the shape, type, and speed of investment can transform project delivery and service outcomes.

The Bay Area is at risk of massive transit service cuts if we don't pass a 2026 regional funding measure. It cannot be overstated how disastrous cuts would be for our entire region. Please read this thread for actions you can take to save Bay Area public transit. And share to spread the word! 🧵⬇️

Without a Bay Area transit measure, Caltrain would have to - run 1 train/hour - stop service at 9pm - stop weekend service - close 1/3rd of stations These cuts would be a disaster for riders and undermine the faster and more frequent service that boosted ridership 47% YoY since electrification.

Several BART board members mentioned wanting to have an all-agency transit pass for the Superbowl and the World Cup using new Clipper 2 capabilities..

Rebecca Long of MTC is reporting on the most recent poll relating to the regional transit measure... The vast majority (84%) of voters say public transit is important and 58% say it is very important...

Covering the @bart.gov meeting, ridership was up in October and open payment accounts for 10-11% of all riders.