Issue Position: Reducing Our Choking Traffic

Issue Position

We must be more aggressive and ambitious in solving our choking traffic problems. Both San Mateo County and Santa Clara County have taken important steps by approving new funding sources to create additional road, transit and traffic solutions. But we can and must do more at both the State and local levels. Public/private efforts are underway to create Dumbarton Rail and get cars off the streets and roads near the Dumbarton Bridge. We need a permanent source of funding for CalTrain to quickly double ridership from its current 65,000 and increase it fourfold in the near decade. Creating new housing near transit stations is important. I support an aggressive expansion of "ebikes" to connect commuters with bike options to mass transit hubs like CalTrain and VTA light rail. More can and will be done -- it has to get done.

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