TRANSDEF

The Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund, known as TRANSDEF, is a non-profit environmental organization created by transit activists to advocate for better solutions to transportation, land use and air quality problems in the San Francisco Bay Area... TRANSDEF offers a repository of ideas on how to achieve a better and more sustainable future by shifting where transportation funding goes. We start with our highest-priority project, fighting the current high-speed rail project. We then go to Bay Area Basics and the need to plan transportation in the context of climate change... TRANSDEF promotes cost-effective transit, Smart Growth, and market-based pricing as fiscally and environmentally preferable responses to traffic congestion. These strategies represent a major departure from the prevailing policy climate of suburban sprawl, ever-widening highways and overwhelming dependence on the private automobile. We are especially focused on transportation solutions that..

Primary location: San Rafael United States