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MORE FACTS AND FIGURES Local Ballot Measures Ballot Text of 1996 Measure A and B (will expire March 31, 2006) Ballot Text of 2000 Measure A (effective April 1, 2006) Bay Area Regional Level (Metropolitan Transportation Commission - MTC) Transportation 2030 State of the System 2004 2005 Reports to the California State Legislature (14.6 MB PDF) and to the U.S. Congress (11.1 MB PDF) California State Level Transit Funding Reference Guide From January 1998: Caltrans Performance Audit Guidebook  (853K PDF) Federal Level Federal Transit Administration (FTA) National Transit Database Monitor this page for changes         it's private by ChangeDetection Click to join our Yahoo! Group

This area of our web site deals with reports on how your tax dollars are spent - or misspent - on transportation in the Valley.  Here you will find current and historical information and analysis on Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) budgets, reports, short-term and long-term transportation plans.  Bay Area regional, state, and federal-level information and independent analysis (if available) is also here.

Some documents written in PDF format here require the Adobe Acrobat reader to view.  Such documents are noted as needed.

• Budgets and Other Reports
• Revenue and Ridership
• Historical Analysis
• Laws Affecting the Valley Transportation Authority and YOUR Tax Dollars 

Budgets and Other Reports 

Analysis and impact from VTA's "Comprehensive Operational Analysis" (COA) plan for restructuring bus service between 2007 and 2008 - and how to make YOUR voice heard!

Money For Nothing and its paratransit supplement - analysis of the VTA's long-range transportation plan, VTP2030. (ADA Text version of VTP 2030)

From 2004: Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury Report on the fiscal management and structure of the Valley Transportation Authority (206K Adobe Acrobat PDF)

Our analysis of VTA's 2004/2005 Fiscal Year Budget

VTA's 2003 Fiscal Year Budget (931K Adobe Acrobat PDF), and our analysis of the budget.

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Revenue and Ridership

March 2006 SamTrans Ridership Figures for SamTrans buses, Caltrain, and the BART extension to Millbrae/SFO (published May 10, 2006 - Adobe Acrobat PDF document)

What You Already Pay In Local and State Sales Taxes to VTA 

Analysis of VTA's 3rd Quarter Performance Report - Fiscal Year 2005 vs. Fiscal Year 2004 (courtesy of the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce)

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority fare structure as of January 2005

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Historical Analysis

VTA Fare Hike History - 1996 to Present

Public Transit Usage by City (from 2002 US Census Bureau statistics)

Public Transit Usage by County (from 2002 US Census Bureau statistics)

From the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Principal Means of Transportation To Work (data from 1985-2003)

May 2001 U.S. News and World Report: American Gridlock by Philip J. Longman

2001 VTA Bus and LRT Ridership Statistics - Total Passenger Ridership, Passengers Per Trip, and Passengers per Hour

2000 VTA Revenue Statistics from the National Transit Database 

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Laws Affecting the Valley Transportation Authority and YOUR Tax Dollars  

A 2004 State Law that allows the Valley Transportation Authority to set up special tax districts without a public vote to form a district

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