AC Transit is considering the purchase of 47 Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Electric Buses (FCEB) costing over $1.7M per vehicle! We are concerned this will worsen service for riders because 2018 and 2022 FCEBs have proven to be unreliable and expensive to operate actransit.legistar.com/LegislationD...

In 2024, AC Transit's hydrogen bus fleet achieved an availability rate of 43% (for the 2018 variety) and 64% (for the 2022 variety). Essentially you need twice as many hydrogen buses as service you want to run actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

As Mayor of Berkeley—and as someone who regularly relies on public transit—I urge Governor Newsom to approve the $750 million state loan to stabilize Bay Area transit agency budgets and prevent devastating service cuts. Read the full statement: www.mayoradenaishii.com/from-the-may...

Call in and speak out!

Want to help save Bay Area transit and got time tomorrow (or tonight!) to hit the streets to spread the word? You can download & print the flyer to pass out to folks here www.transbaycoalition.org/wp-content/u...

Most of your fellow transit riders DO NOT know that the transit services they rely on are on the chopping block and that they can take meaningful action to help prevent the cuts. Help get the word out to your neighbors, friends, family and fellow transit riders!

Want to help prevent massive cuts to BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain? Got time this weekend & access to a printer? The pdf for the flyer for Monday morning's Emergency Rally is here www.transbaycoalition.org/wp-content/u... Please print out and put up in your community.

BART service wouldn't meltdown if California funded transit. In July @governor.ca.gov promised an emergency loan to stop Bay Area transit cuts. But with just a few days left to issue the loan and Newsoms hasn't made good on his promise. Please call and remind him! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A very special Transit Month Car Free Happy Hour will be at… Temescal Brewing Tuesday, September 9 starting at 5:30pm 4115 Telegraph Ave, Oakland AC Transit lines 6, 18, 57, BayWheels bike share, MacArthur BART @tvrr.bsky.social @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @walkoakbikeoak.bsky.social

For #TransitMonth2025 join us for a lovely outing via bus in Hayward for "Sunday in the Park Without Having to Park." Details are here actionnetwork.org/events/sunda...

Transit Month starts in 10 days The Bay Area and SoCal are putting on over 60 events My biggest question: who is gonna do "Dress To Impress on Transit" better? #BeatLA www.socaltransitmonth.org/dress_to_imp...

Legendary AC Transit Board Director and transit advocate H.E. Christian Peeples passed away yesterday. He passionately and compassionately served the East Bay for decades, making our community a far better place. He will be sorely missed www.actransit.org/press-releas...

Apply to be on the "MTC ABAG Community Advisory Council" and help shape the agencies approach on issues related to housing and land use, transportation and the environment. throughout the Nine-County Bay Area Applications due before midnight on August 3 : abag.ca.gov/about-abag/w...

TONIGHT tune in to learn how to make your city's bus system better as we host a book talk with the author of "Better Buses, Better Cities" @stevenhigashide.com actionnetwork.org/events/bette...

Bay Area and SoCal Transit Month are coming up this September and we're here to help you (and/or your organization) put on a fun & interesting transit-related event sometime that month. Learn more about how we can help you out at our upcoming office hours actionnetwork.org/events/trans...

Excited to host a virtual book talk with the author of "Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" @stevenhigashide.com. Register today! actionnetwork.org/events/bette... Get your book through @islandpress.bsky.social at islandpress.org/books/better...

We need stable funding for local transit & high speed rail in California, write to your reps and tell them to strengthen the Cap-and-Trade program. Make polluters pay their fair share so we can build and run the transit service needed to tackle climate change! transformca.org/cap-and-trad...

We WON! Huge collective victory thanks to the tens of thousands of people & 120+ coalition partners who spoke out, rallied, dropped banners, and everything else to make this happen. Big ups to Sen. Wiener & Arreguin & Asm. Gonzalez for leading the charge in Sacramento.

Good news! California legislators are: -REJECTING Gov Newsom's proposed transit cuts -Proposing a $750M in loans to Bay Area transit agencies to prevent immediate service cuts Call Newsom & tell him to take the deal! Let's save transit! www.movecalifornia.org/state-funding

There is, umm, a lot going on in California right now. But the state budget waits for no one, and public transit funding is still at risk. Activate your fellow riders this week with flyers. Let them know that the service they depend on may not exist next year without restoration of state funds.

There's over a million people in California who use transit and over 30,000 people work in transit... how many of them do you think know that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is trying to CUT funding for transit service by 30%? How many have called their reps? ahttps://www.movecalifornia.org/state-funding

🚨We need to get the word out as fast and as far as possible so we flood Sacramento with calls before thiey slash transit service funding by 30%. Can you help get this alert to your networks? To reddit groups? To big transit-friendly social media accounts? All hands on deck!

📣ALERT📣 Bus and train service in California is under threat as the state is DAYS AWAY from finalizing its budget with Governor Newsom's MASSIVE CUTS to transit service funding. Call your reps and tell them to REJECT Newsom's cuts and instead FUND TRANSIT! www.movecalifornia.org/state-funding

Fun times at our little picnic today in Palo Alto, plus got to see the tree that the city is named after (with @caltrain.com in the background)!

Victory! More Bus Stop Benches Coming Soon to the East Bay www.transbaycoalition.org/victory-more...

Richmond City Council PASSES the policy & directs stuff to establish a permitting process for community-led bus stop bench installations!!! Huge thank you to Councilmember Jamelia Brown & Vice Mayor Cesar Zepeda for bringing this to council & championing the policy. Excited to work with city staff!

Gavin Newsom’s May budget revise not only failed to include the $2b necessary to keep public transit alive but revoked previously won funding, including for maintenance. Now, BART’s literally on fire. The crisis couldn’t be more blatantly spelled out. Take action at www.movecalifornia.org

Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to weigh in on these resolutions in support of transit funding! And huge thanks to Senators @jessearreguin.bsky.social and @scottwiener.bsky.social for their ongoing leadership to secure state and regional transit funding.

West Contra Costa Transportation Commission will vote on my transit funding resolution on Friday, meeting at 8 am. Item 11: www.westcontracostatc.gov/documents/vi... You can comment on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/7321058840... Or email comments by Thursday at 5pm to [email protected]

El Cerrito City Council will vote on my transit funding resolution tomorrow (Tuesday), meeting at 6pm. Item number 7F: elcerritoca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/580/fi... We don't take Zoom comments (I'm working on changing that!) so email comments by 2 pm Tuesday to [email protected]

I've introduced resolutions supporting state and regional transit funding that will be voted on by the El Cerrito City Council and West Contra Costa Transportation Commission this week. El Cerrito and West County need robust public transit service to thrive. 🧵with meeting/public comment details:

“It is great to see transit supporters all around this large state raising up the need to keep transit running and demanding that Governor Newsom lead,” said Adina Levin, Executive Director, Seamless Bay Area. cal.streetsblog.org/2025/05/14/b...

WHOA! So today, Californians in: Arcata Davis Napa Martinez San Francisco Berkeley Hayward San Mateo San Jose Santa Cruz and two spots in LA Dropped banners calling on @governor.ca.gov to fund transit. Wow. Transit is key to just communities, economic growth, and a stable climate. FUND IT!

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Napa, Hayward, Martinez, Santa Cruz, San Carlos, and Berkeley! You can write to your state rep urging them to fund transit here actionnetwork.org/letters/fund...

Round up of the banners we've seen so far telling @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to fund transit.

Reminder -- without state funding, Bay Area freeways are going to clog even worse. actionnetwork.org/letters/fund...

A member texted this in -- spotted in Martinez! A @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: Fund Transit banner

A day before Gov. Newsom releases the May budget revision, transit advocates across the state have hung banners on freeway overpasses, urging him to fund public transit. A banner over the S.F. pedestrian bridge crossing at Utah/18th streets, via Fund California Public Transit.

My home town making me proud! Even in the peninsula suburbs people demand funding for public transit. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, are you listening?

Advocates from “Fund California Public Transit" in the Bay Area are putting up signs on overpasses urging the Governor to well... fund transit!

👀 It looks like there were banner drops all over the state this morning calling on @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to properly fund public transit. I am here for it. Newsom announced the May state budget revise drops tomorrow. That would be a good time make it clear he intends to, indeed, fund transit.

Hah, nice-- got word that a "@gavinnewsom.bsky.social fund transit" went up in Berkeley this morning

That's great! Glad to see LA is speaking out for transit

TOMORROW learn more about the people who make AC Transit work. Tune in to "The History of ATU 192" with Kafui Attoh and LaTrina Meredith www.eastbaydsa.org/events/3159/...

A @bart.gov outage for a few hours is terrible -- a permanent 85% cut to service would be a catastrophe and unless @governor.ca.gov & our state reps step up and funds transit this year, we're looking at major service cuts to BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain + more actionnetwork.org/letters/fund...

This morning, the Bay Area got a glimpse of what life will be like without BART. But if the California State Legislature and @governor.ca.gov don't fund public transit in this year's budget, the situation will get much, much worse. #fundtransit @scottwiener.bsky.social @caspeakerrivas.bsky.social

May 1 is International Workers Day! As transit riders, we are united in solidarity with our allies who operate the transit systems we depend on & cherish. Read on here www.transbaycoalition.org/may-day-spec...

Big thanks to Berkeley Councilmember @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social for introducing and getting passed a city resolution last night that calls for: - $2 Billion in state funds for transit - A funding measure for transit in the Bay Area that comes from progressive funding sources!

Yes! It's up to all of us to get the word out. Want to help educate your fellow transit riders about what's going on? Come flyer with us! Or we can get you flyers so you can go wherever you want in the East Bay to spread the word. DM for details

If you haven't ridden transit in the Bay Area in the past few years it's time to get reacquainted. May 6th join the fun with All Aboard for Transit Day and take @sfbayferry.com @bart.gov @rideact.bsky.social @sfmta.bsky.social @vta.org @caltrain.com & more! allaboardbayarea.com/transit-day-...