Transit Funding

MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee today approved a three-point set of principles to guide the distribution to Bay Area transit agencies in the coming months of nearly $1.7 billion in federal...

MTC released a list of about 700 Bay Area transportation projects—a total of approximately $6.6 billion in committed federal, state and local funding for the four-year period through 2020.

The state Senate's Transportation Committee and Revenue and Taxation Committee this week voted to advance Senate Bill 1031, introduced earlier this year by Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Sen...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s newly proposed state budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year largely preserves funding commitments for public transit in California metro areas, though it would delay for one year $1...

MTC Executive Director Andrew Fremier and more than a dozen other Bay Area transportation leaders and policy advocates testified Monday afternoon at a hearing convened by the state Senate Select...

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission today voted unanimously to endorse a suite of recommendations to the Legislature for crafting a new state budget that provides operating funding on a multi...

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) this afternoon issued the following statement on the ruling issued today by the state Supreme Court dismissing...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s newly proposed state budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year includes major cuts to funding for transportation, climate and housing that were included in last year’s budget. The cuts to...

The 2022-23 state budget agreement announced Sunday by Gov. Newsom, state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon includes billions of new dollars to improve...

California's current fiscal strength is poised to pay big dividends for transportation and housing investments around the Bay Area and across the state. The $300 billion-plus budget agreement...