{"id":61303,"date":"2025-10-30T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/bay-area-transit-sales-tax-measure-clears-state-hurdle\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:30:15","slug":"bay-area-transit-sales-tax-measure-clears-state-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/bay-area-transit-sales-tax-measure-clears-state-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area transit sales tax measure clears state hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates are gearing up for a regional outreach effort now that the door is open for a Bay Area public transit funding measure on the November 2026 ballot. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 63, also known as the Connect Bay Area Transit Act, on Oct. 13 \u2014 clearing the way for a voter initiative to put a 14-year sales tax measure supporting Bay Area transit agencies on next year\u2019s ballot. A coalition of transit supporters across advocacy, labor and business groups formed soon after to spearhead outreach and signature gathering efforts. The coalition \u2014 Connect Bay Area Transit Committee&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/bay-area-transit-sales-tax-measure-clears-state-hurdle\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates are gearing up for a regional outreach effort now that the door is open for a Bay Area public transit funding measure on the November 2026 ballot. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 63, also known as the Connect Bay Area Transit Act, on Oct. 13 \u2014 clearing the way for a voter initiative &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}