Regional Funding: Bay Area

Fighting for Funds to Improve Our Quality of Life and Climate

TransForm is the Bay Area's Watchdog on Regional Transportation Spending

Since TransForm's founding, we have been the leading advocate for a better use of the nine-county Bay Area's transportation funds. 

Our work focuses on the Bay Area's Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), which is developed and approved every 3 - 4 years by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and is the blueprint for how $200+ billion in transportation funding will be spent over 25-years.  This makes the RTP a huge opportunity to determine the future of the nine-country region and our quality of life. 

TransForm has had a dramatic impact on the Regional Transportation Plan since our founding. We have shifted hundreds of millions of dollars towards transit routes that connect low-income communities with jobs and healthcare; bicycle/pedestrian safety programs and projects; and rewards for cities that build additional housing near transit.

Recent Victory for Fighting Climate Change

We recently won a major victory when $80 million in funding was designated for a first-in-the-nation regional grants program that will fight climate change by funding innovative strategies to reduce driving.

Learn More

Contact Carli Paine, TransForm's Transportation Program Director, with any questions about our work on regional transportation funding. 

Learn more about the 2009 Regional Transportation Plan and the next Regional Transportation Plan.