
Enhancing Quality of Life in the Bay Area by Providing Equitable, Healthy Trail Access for People of All Ages and Abilities
Fort Mason | Photo by Cindy Barks
Our Priorities
The Bay Area Trails Collaborative is harnessing the coalition’s collective impact to create a world-class regional trail system in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our partners are committed to completing the network by 2030.
By working together as a powerful multisector coalition, RTC and the Bay Area Trails Collaborative are leveraging the group’s collective influence and expertise to:advance policy and environmental change; promote equity in active transportation and recreation; share best practices; grow public and private support for trails; accelerate trail development; and build a more diverse, robust trail movement in the Bay Area. Learn more about how it’s getting done!
Accomplishments
Since 2014, the Collaborative has moved its vision forward through a number of successful initiatives related to partner engagement, advocacy and trail development. These efforts include:
- Mapping the regional trail network, and compiling crucial data to conduct connectivity and equity analyses and prioritize key gaps for completion
- Authoring the Trails Count! report (2016), documenting best practices in collecting trail use data and outlining recommendations for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to create a program model for measuring regional trail use
- Securing MTC support to begin development of a regional bike/ped count program and web portal to share data across the region
- Engaging members and supporters across the coalition in successful advocacy campaigns to: improve application guidelines in key funding programs, including California’s Active Transportation Program; and increase funding for Priority Conservation Areas in California by 60%
Current Priorities
The Bay Area Trails Collaborative speaks with a unified voice for trails in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our current priorities include:
- Strengthening policies and expanding funding to support trails in key regional and state funding programs, including park bonds and the California Active Transportation Program
- Accelerating completion of the regional trail network through best practices, including establishing a regional bike/ped count program and web portal to share data across the region
- Building partnerships and cultivating champions (key influencers)
- Promoting trail use, and publicizing and marketing the Bay Area trail network vision to the public
- Expanding and diversifying the coalition’s membership, and securing new resources to support the work
- Advancing the Bay Area trail network’s 13 priority trail projects through planning, education and marketing strategies that elevate their importance as part of a complete, connected regionwide trail network:
- Bay Skyway
- Bay to Sea Trail
- East Bay Greenway
- Guadalupe River Trail
- Highway 17 Wildlife and Regional Trail Crossings
- Highway 37 Trail
- Napa Valley Vine Trail
- Richmond Greenway-Bay Trail Connector
- Richmond-San Rafael Bridge – Bay Trail Connections (Marin)
- SMART Pathway
- South Vallejo Riverwalk and Bay Trail
- Stevens Creek Trail
- West Oakland Link
Get Involved
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