Report Cover with Title, 'All Aboard: How California Can Increase Investments in Public Transit' with an image of a train hall and trains. Including Bank of America, CLEE, and UCLA Law logos

All Aboard: How California Can Increase Investments in Public Transit

Author(s)

Ethan Elkind, Steven Weissman

Publication Date

July 2011

Keyword(s)

Archive, Climate Finance, Energy Systems, California, Convening

Overview

The buses, passenger rail cars, and shuttle vans that serve California’s communities provide critical benefits to the state’s environment, economy, and quality of life. Current levels of funding for public transit, however, are insufficient to support the extensive system needed to achieve these economic and environmental benefits. Stabilizing and improving funds for transit will be necessary for California to improve its transit system and achieve the resulting benefits.