Transform Helps Kick Off Regional Transit Measure 

Last Friday, Transform and our partners at Connect the Bay kicked off the campaign to pass a regional transit measure with events in five counties throughout the Bay Area. 

From Pleasant Hill BART to Diridon Station, Redwood City to Oakland, and with an energy-filled kickoff in San Francisco, riders, elected officials, and advocates throughout the Bay Area gathered to rally and begin collecting signatures. The rallies marked the start of a campaign to place a new regional transit funding measure on the ballot this coming November. 

As the Alameda County lead for the measure, Transform led the kickoff event in Oakland, which included Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii and Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee. Mayor Lee gave an inspired speech, drawing connections between public transit, access to opportunity, and economic vitality for the region. Transform’s Abibat Rahman-Davies also spoke at the Oakland rally.

The ballot measure will ask voters to approve a half-cent sales tax in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties and a 1-cent sales tax in San Francisco County. The tax sunsets after 14 years. To get it on the ballot this November, we need to collect over 200,000 verified signatures across the five participating counties. 

Want to get involved? Learn more on our website or look for upcoming events here: https://luma.com/connectbayarea?k=c