California General Election
Measure H: Parcel Tax to Fund Public Muni Operations
Measure RTM: Regional Transit Measure
The situation will become dire if we don't take action.
BART would be forced to cut 70% of service. This would mean stopping service at 9pm, closing 15 stations, reducing frequencies to every 30 minutes, ending Blue line service, ending Yellow line service past Concord, increasing fares by 50%, and more.
Muni would be forced to cut 50% of all bus and Metro lines, including eliminating entire neighborhood routes, ending regular service at 9pm (with only bare-bones late-night service), and removing San Francisco's iconic historic cable cars and trolleys.
AC Transit would be forced to cut service by up to 31% of pre-2019 levels meaning less frequent buses, eliminating segments of bus routes, and ending early morning and late night service.
Caltrain would be forced to run service only once an hour, provide no weekend service, eliminate weekday service after 9pm, and close 10 stations.
VTA and SamTrans are also looking at significant upcoming budget deficits which would force similarly devastating cuts.
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, there is a way we can save families money on transportation, unsnarl traffic, grow the economy, clean our air, and create a more equitable and affordable Bay Area.
Proposition 43: California Two-Thirds Vote Requirement for Local Special Tax Initiatives and Property Tax Initiative Prohibition Amendment
Seamless Bay Area opposes Prop 43 since it would be harmful for future efforts to fund transit, affordable housing, and other valuable public investments. It would impact the Bay Area’s efforts to fund affordable housing using the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) if it was put on the ballot by a citizen's initiative, and it could harm efforts by AC Transit to renew the parcel tax that funds bus service, which expires in 2039, and other local self-help measures.
As reported in the SF Chronicle, if Prop 43 authorized by ACA-22 was already in effect, measures such as Alameda County’s 2025 Measure B funding healthcare, Sonoma County’s 2024 Measure H for fire protection and Santa Clara’s June 2026 Measure D for open space preservation would not have passed, since they all received less than a two-thirds vote.