June 2022: YES on Prop A: Muni Reliability and Street Safety Bond

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Yes on A campaign logo showing muni bus in front of a rising sun.

The San Francisco League of Conservation Voters urges a YES vote on Proposition A. 

This bond measure will provide crucially needed funding for transportation-related capital projects such as: 

  • repairing and improving Muni’s light rail system, including with a new train control system; 

  • improving the speed and reliability of Muni’s bus system through improved traffic control and street networks;

  • modernizing Muni’s antiquated bus facilities that are unsafe, inefficient, and unable to accommodate new generations of zero-emission electric buses;

  • enhancing the safety, attractiveness, and convenience of sidewalks, crosswalks, and the bike line network;

  • replacing and enhancing traffic signals to enhance pedestrian and vehicular safety;

  • repairing and enhancing San Francisco’s streets.

In addition to funding these efforts directly, passing Prop A is even more important because by providing local funds, we are eligible to receive critical state and Federal matching funds.  

Transportation is San Francisco’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and also harms the Bay Area’s air, water, soil and natural habitat in numerous other ways. In order to meet our transit-first goal of completing 80 percent of all trips by sustainable forms of transportation such as walking, bicycling, and public transit, San Francisco must dramatically improve the safety, attractiveness, speed, and reliability of those sustainable modes. Unfortunately, we are falling short, especially as the pandemic has dramatically reduced ridership on Muni. This measure is one crucial step in reaching that important goal and to getting the City back on track.

Under the terms of this measure, the new bonds to pay for these transportation improvements will be issued only as older, previously approved bonds are paid off. That means that Measure A will not result in increased property taxes.

Please vote YES on Measure A.