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About Transportation California
Civic leaders, businesses, and media throughout California agree: It's time to bring our long-neglected transportation infrastructure into the 21st Century to meet the demand for mobility. Transportation California is doing something about it.
Our efforts to create new funds for transportation and prevent state borrowing of those funds has put Transportation California in the forefront of transportation advocacy. We have:
- Taken the lead in working for stable new revenue sources to fund California's transportation needs
- Led the continuing effort to preserve transportation funding in the State Budget in the face of unprecedented fiscal crises in California
- Partnered with the California Alliance for Jobs in 2006 to win overwhelming approval of Proposition 1A to safeguard transportation funds and Proposition 1B
- Taken the lead in passing Proposition 42 (sales tax on gasoline) to increase funds for transportation projects and spearheaded the Fund. Prop. 42 Coalition in 2004 and 2005
- Helped pass Proposition 2, a measure which prevented diversion of gas tax funds
- Supported passage of AB1012 to expedite delivery of transportation projects
- Led the fight for Proposition 192 to support earthquake retrofitting
To learn about our current agenda: Click here.
To read more about what Transportation California has accomplished since inception: Click here.
What We Are
Transportation California is a diversified, non-partisan, non-profit coalition representing a broad spectrum of business, labor, and planning agencies which have united to create the state's leading transportation advocacy and public education group. The organization was founded in 1990. Today its member companies and groups account for more than 200,000 California jobs.
Our Mission
Our members are striving to ensure there will be adequate resources to maintain the state's roads and also to enhance the transportation system to meet growing needs in the years ahead.
Why This Matters
Wholesale trade and transportation is our state's largest economic sector. The Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach is the nation's largest shipping hub. Our roadways annually carry 1.3 billion tons of freight, more than 12 percent of the national volume, and Californians travel over 300 billion miles each year on the state's roads. Every $1 invested in transportation spending creates nearly $6 in economic benefits. California needs good roads. But our transportation infrastructure deteriorates over time and with growth and use. In the last 10 years, automobile travel has grown 10 times faster than new lane capacity. Pavement conditions are rated the worst in the nation, and our transportation investment shortfall is more than $100 billion. California ranks last in the nation in highway spending per capita. Click here for more transportation facts.
Our Members
Transportation California is a coalition of groups and individuals concerned about the future of California's transportation networks. Our members are highway contractors as well as trade associations and other groups. These include the Automobile Club of Southern California, Associated General Contractors of California, The Engineering and Utility Contractors Association, the Southern California Contractors Association, the California Alliance for Jobs, labor interests such as the Operating Engineers and Laborers unions, cement and aggregate suppliers, business groups, and regional transportation planning agencies.
Our Board of Directors
Officers
Chairperson: John Franich, Granite Construction Company
Vice Chairperson: Jose Mejia, California State Council of Laborers
Treasurer: Linda Clifford, C.C. Myers, Inc.
Secretary: Tim Cremins, California-Nevada Conference of Operating Engineers
Executive Committee Member: Robert Sears, Vulcan Materials
Board Members
David Ackerman, DGA Associates
Russ Burns, Operating Engineers
Lee Brown, California Dump Truck Owners Assn.
James Earp, California Alliance for Jobs
Tom Foss, Griffith Company
Emily Cohen, Engineering & Utility Contractors Assn.
Tom Holsman, AGC of California
Al Landes, Herzog Construction
Paul Meyer, CELSOC
Robert Sears, Vulcan Materials
Paul Von Berg, Brutoco Engineering & Construction
Vacancy, So. Calif. Contractors Assn.
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Bert Sandman, Executive Director
We invite you to surf our Website and learn more about California's transportation issues, population growth, regional pressures, recent research, current legislation and new ideas. An informed populace can make the best decisions for our future. Please join us in Building for the Future.
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