• Come to a campaign event and help out! See the calendar here

• Put together a flyering/postering event and add it to the community calendar here 

• Quarter Sheet Flyers to print at home and pass out in your community

• Posters to print at home and put up in your community

• An Instagram video you can share that explains the situation

• A beginner's guide to passing out flyers

• Guide for how to make a Social Media Video to help promote the regional measure

Looking for ideas of where and when to pass out flyers? Check out this analysis of foot traffic at BART stations and see this map of transit routes & voter turnout in the region

• Help build poster stands to distribute to signature gatherers. Instructions here. 

• Recommend groups for us to reach out to about the Bay Area Transit Funding Measures

• Volunteer to tell your transit rider story and help others tell theirs online

• Request a Presentation for your Organization about the Bay Area Transit Funding Measures

• Help fill in missing contact information for organizations we should reach out to 

People throughout the Bay Area take over a million trips on transit every day, but if the regional measure to fund transit does not pass:

Muni will be forced to eliminate entire routes, cut 50% of service on its major bus and metro lines, suspend historic cable car and train service

BART is looking at running trains just once an hour, eliminating two lines, closing nine stations, stopping service after 9pm, eliminating weekend service entirely, and laying off over 1,000 workers

Caltrain is looking at cutting service to one train an hour in each direction, stopping service after 9pm, and eliminating weekend service entirely

AC Transit would have to cut up to 37% of its overall service in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

VTA and SamTrans are also looking at significant upcoming budget deficits which would force similarly devastating cuts.

Paratransit waits would get longer and the service area it covers would shrink

County Connection, WestCAT, Tri-Valley Wheels, Union City Transit, and Tri Delta Transit  would continue to offer far less service than the communities need and deserve

These cuts means people would not be able to get where they need to go on transit.  car traffic, competition for parking, and air pollution would go up as  

Public transit is the lifeblood of the Bay Area. Without the bus, train, and ferry service our communities depend on, freeways would become clogged, our economy would stall, our air would be dirtier, and people would have to shell out thousands of dollars more each year on car payments, gas, and insurance.

However, if we pass the regional measure to fund transit, we can save families money on transportation, unsnarl traffic, grow the economy, clean our air, and create a more equitable and affordable Bay Area. 

About the measure: 

A 2026 regional transit ballot measure will raise nearly $1 billion per year and the funds would go directly to preventing transit cuts and improving service. 

To get the measure on the November 2026 ballot, we need to gather signatures from over 200,000 registered voters in the Bay Area's big 5 counties – Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and San Mateo by July. If we collect enough signatures, the measure would go on the November 2026 ballot in those counties. If the majority of the people across those counties vote for the measure, it passes and we save our transit! 

It will also make service easier, faster, more efficient, and affordable for all by funding rider-focused improvements like: 

Free/reduced priced transfers for people when they go between transit agencies

Standardized regional maps and signs to help people navigate transit more easily

Infrastructure upgrades to make transit faster and more reliable.

Fare discount programs for low-income communities and people with disabilities

Learn more at https://connectbayarea.com/