Measure RTM Landslide Win and Prop. 45 Defeated
We achieved HUGE decisive victories on Election Day!
Bay Area residents chose YES on Measure RTM in a landslide 63 percent win for new funding for many of the Bay Area’s largest transit agencies.
Over the next 14 years, this 0.5 percent sales tax in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties and 1 percent sales tax in San Francisco will generate about $1 billion annually for BART, AC Transit, Caltrain, Muni, and other transit agencies.
Had this vital measure failed, BART stations in north Concord, Pittsburg, Antioch and other places likely would have closed, train service would be reduced by up to 70 percent, and entire lines might have been eliminated.
Not to mention the big impacts that failure would have had on bus service throughout the Bay Area.
The passage of Measure RTM was a huge win for a better climate, less traffic, and the move towards transit-oriented development instead of sprawl housing in green open space. You can’t have transit-oriented development without transit!
Savvy voters also defeated Prop. 45, which would have gutted the California Environmental Quality Act throughout the whole state.
Thank you for using your vote to protect Mount Diablo’s landscapes! Photo by Scott Hein
At least 56 percent of California voters stood up and said
- NO to weakened public noticing and review of projects that impact our communities,
- NO to blanket exemptions for huge projects like freeways, housing subdivisions, reservoirs, and industrial parks, and
- NO to moving power away from local governments and to developers.
Save Mount Diablo supported RTM, opposed Prop. 45, and threaded this message throughout our communications to turn out the vote and have a big impact on these races!
Thank you to all our supporters and partners who got out the vote and made these big wins a reality! Our neighborhoods, climate, wildlife and beautiful Diablo Range landscapes thank you.
