Vote YES on San Francisco's Prop C - get the Transbay Terminal back on track

The redevelopment of the Transbay Terminal is too important to San Francisco (and the whole Bay Area) to continue to be jeopardized by bureaucratic infighting. That's why San Francisco's Proposition C is so important.

The Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) was established to redevelop the Transbay Terminal into a Grand Central Station West, serving Muni, AC Transit, SamTrans, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, an extended Caltrain, and future High Speed Rail from Los Angeles and beyond. The terminal will facilitate travel by public transportation throughout the Bay area, offering connections that do not now exist.

San Francisco has three representatives on the TJPA. The other members of the TJPA board are an elected member of AC Transit's board and a member of the Caltrain board. Up till now the city's reps have been a supervisor, the head of the Municipal Transportation Agency, and a representative of the mayor. Prop C would reassign the city's representation to be the mayor, the District 6 supervisor (the Terminal is in District 6), and the supervisor appointed to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Instead of one elected official and two staffers, we would be represented by three elected officials, all directly responsible to the voters.

The Sierra Club believes that this change will facilitate TJPA Board cooperation to complete the project. Failure to complete the transit center on time could force the city to return the land under the freeway ramps to Caltrans, thus sacrificing the planned development of 3,400 new homes, 35% of them affordable to working San Franciscans. The planned development would help create a pedestrian- and transit-friendly neighborhood around the terminal.

Please vote Yes on Prop C.