Transportation

When Senate Bill 1 (Beall) passed in 2017, it raised the gasoline excise tax for the first time in 20 years to generate tens of billions of dollars to restore aging transportation infrastructure. [...]

The San Francisco Bay Area is already crowded, ranked among the nation’s top ten most congested metropolitan regions, and soon it will be even more packed. Over the next two decades, our [...]

The Bay Area housing affordability crisis is changing single-family home ownership as residents explore variations on the dream, turning to creative solutions like cohousing that offer community [...]

What if it were possible to travel by bus, train, electric bike, or rideshare using a single account to pay for these transportation costs? It’s one of several fare policy strategies suggested to [...]

In many parts of the Bay Area driving is more like plodding, with heavy feet on the brakes because of record-level gridlock on roads and streets. Given no sign these conditions will let up, San [...]

In July of 2017, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) adopted Plan Bay Area 2040, a long-range blueprint to guide transportation [...]

The state is driving toward a future in which five million zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) will navigate California roads by 2030, a goal set nearly a year ago by outgoing Governor Jerry Brown as [...]

Last year, the California legislature enacted Senate Bill 1 (Beall), which increased the state’s base gasoline tax by 12 cents. The law also hiked diesel taxes, implemented a vehicle [...]

Transit-oriented development (TOD) is not a new idea, but Bay Area bus and rail operators are increasingly pushing the approach because land they own near stations is ripe for creating affordable [...]

While the Bay Area economy continues to hum, policymakers are exploring various “what ifs” to decide how the region should react when economic output, population, and employment abruptly busts. [...]