Funding Local Transit Service

November 23, 2020 – Will Houston of the Marin Independent Journal reports on a call by nearly 60 labor unions and supporters that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) postpone [...]

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 27, 2017   CONTACT: Isabel Alegría, 510- 541-5428,  ialegria@publicadvocates.org or David Zisser, 415-828-8722, dzisser@publicadvocates.org   [...]

By Richard Marcantonio, Managing Attorney Public Advocates. SB 1 (Beall) won two-thirds approval and went to the Governor’s desk late Thursday night. What does this multi-billion dollar a year [...]

Read the letter in its entirety here: Coalition Letter to Lawmakers on Mass Transit Funding

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2017 Contact: Isabel Alegría, 415-431-7434, ialegria@publicadvocates.org   On Tuesday of this week, Governor Jerry Brown released his state budget proposal [...]

San Jose Mercury News reporter Erin Baldassari on why BART’s Oakland Airport Connector is losing money 2 years after it began operating. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article as [...]

It’s official! Our Equity, Environment and Jobs Scenario for the Bay Area’s future is the “environmentally superior alternative,” performing better than four other alternative plans on a broad [...]

In the Bay Area, countywide transportation agencies wield significant power over the use of billions of dollars in transportation funding. These “Congestion Management Agencies,” or CMAs, have [...]