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Cost-Effective Transit Solutions: Bridging Equity for All Riders

Learn how to enhance transit systems to meet the needs of both choice and transit-dependent riders. Discover cost-effective strategies, supportive land-use policies, and key recommendations to improve transportation equity. Get involved with the Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition and make a difference in promoting accessible transit options for all.

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Cost-Effective Transit Solutions: Bridging Equity for All Riders

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  1. Jeff Hobson,Policy Director Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition World Class Transit:How Cost-Effective Transit Can Meet the Needs of Both Choice and Transit-Dependent Riders

  2. Overview • Coalition success bringing together social justice and environmental advocates • Current planning does not adequately address equity, favors choice riders • Common ground: • Restore & Expand Local Transit • Cost-Effective Transit for Choice Riders: Express Buses and Improved Efficiency on Existing Rail Lines • Supportive Land Use Policies • Recommendations for Elected Officials and Agencies

  3. Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition 80+ member and affiliate groups Steering Committee: • BayRail Alliance • Greenbelt Alliance • Latino Issues Forum • Non-Profit Housing Association • Sierra Club • Surface Transportation Policy Project • Urban Ecology • Urban Habitat Program

  4. 1998: $375 million for transit maintenance in Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) 1999-2000: $186 million more for transit operations, bike-ped safety & paratransit in Alameda County Measure B. Result: 81.5% YES on B! 2001: Growing Coalition addresses new RTP Coalition Successes

  5. No Real Commitment to “Equity”

  6. Bus Riders’ Union calls LA’s Red Line “Transit Racism” BART to San Jose: Stress to existing BART system Incomplete cost estimates Potential service cuts and fare hikes for minority and low-income bus riders (See “Overextended” on Coalition website) Choice vs. Transit-Dependent

  7. Needs Frequent Affordable 24-hour/7-day Solutions Lifeline Transit Network (LTN) Transit Operations Funding (See “Clearing the Road to Work” for detailed analysis for one county) How to Serve the Transit-Dependent: Restore & Expand Local Transit

  8. Bus Rapid Transit and Express Buses – see www.projectexpress.org Vastly Improve the Efficiency of Existing Rail Lines Commuter Rail + BRT = 3 times as many new riders at half the cost of BART-San Jose Rein in sprawl-inducing highway expansions How to Serve Choice Riders:Faster, Sooner, Cheaper, Better

  9. Invest in Communities with Transportation Choices: Transportation for Livable Communities (TLC) Housing Incentives Program (HIP) Community Transportation Plans (CTP) Supportive Land-Use Policies

  10. Recommendations • Initiate targeted programs (MTC examples: LTN, TLC, HIP, CTP, affordability, children’s transportation) • Apply project-level equity safeguards: • Require full disclosure of true costs • Transit expansions must not compromise existing service • Demand & Use Funding Flexibility • Increase Transit Operations Funds • county sales taxes, ACA 4 & state initiatives, federal support

  11. Contact Information: Jeff Hobson, Policy Director Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition ph 510-740-3150 jeff@transcoalition.org www.transcoalition.org

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