More Bay Area residents and affordable housing options would be within a reasonable transit commute from the region’s major job centers

Currently, many of the Bay Area’s largest job centers are not accessible with a reasonable transit commute time due to lack of service and connectivity; as a result, 75% of Bay Area residents drive to work, and only 12% use transit. The Bay Area’s lower-cost housing is increasingly in the outlying parts of the region. Building a seamless transit network would put millions more people within a 60 minute transit commute of the region’s major job centers, reducing reliance on cars and relieving traffic. Implementing the Seamless Bay Area Vision Map would result in, for example, almost 2.5 times more people in the Bay Area would be able to access job opportunities in Downtown Palo Alto by transit than today.