The Coalition will work to ensure these projects are fully funded and the recommended strategies are implemented. The Coalition will work to ensure that detail equity analyses for the RTP and County Transportation Plans are prepared, and that these plans are evaluated and changed to address social equity problems. Current economic incentive promote automobile use and inefficient land development. To clean the air, reduce congestion, and promote livable communities, the region needs to price transportation in a way that promotes alternatives to driving and that reflects the true costs of automobile use to society and the environment. FEES One of the most effective ways to promote alternative transportation is to reduce free parking.
Employees can instead walk, bike, carpool, or take public transit to work.
The Coalition will work to have the California Air Resources Board enforce existing cashout laws and will advocate for stronger cashout provisions from cities and counties. Cities should also reduce parking requirements for transit-oriented development projects. State legislation introduced in 1999 calls for increasing Bay Bridge tolls during rush hour. The Coalition will support such road price increases if equity impacts are taken into account and funds are use used to support non- automobile transportation options. The Coalition will work to develop a regional gas tax expenditure plan that significantly expands funding for public transit and non-automobile modes of transportation, and will only support a plan that is both environmentally sound and socially just.