Public Transit Revenue Measure District · Santa Clara County · November 3, 2026 California General Election
Measure RTM: Connect Bay Area Transit Initiative
The question on your ballot
To prevent major service cuts to BART and other transit, avoid increased traffic, and reduce pollution by: Preserving BART, Caltrain, VTA, SamTrans, AC Transit, Muni, other transit for everyone, including workers, students, seniors, persons with disabilities; Supporting transit safety, cleanliness, affordability, reliability; Repairing targeted roads/potholes; Requiring financial transparency, oversight, accountability; shall the measure enacting a 0.5% (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara counties) and 1% (San Francisco) sales tax for 14 years generating approximately $980,000,000 annually, be adopted? [1]
Vote YES or NO on the question exactly as printed. Majority Vote Required.
Official documents
The county publishes the impartial analysis and the arguments for and against as PDFs. ThinkBallot links them as published; it doesn't summarize them.
- Primary Argument In-Favo
- Rebuttal Argument to Primary Argument In-Favor
- Primary Argument Against
- Rebuttal Argument to Primary Argument Against
- Impartial Analysis
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