If we don’t invest more, our existing roads and highways will have to serve us for the next couple of decades as we add 1.4 million more residents…the equivalent of almost two cities of Austin.  What is the impact of congestion on your life? What is your time worth to you? The average San Antonio resident wastes 38 hours per year sitting in congestion … This will rise to 110 hours (5 days of your life) by 2035… The average household in San Antonio spends $854 per year due to congestion and poorly maintained roads.  Local street, roads, major arterials, sidewalks, and transit systems are also underfunded. SAMCo supports additional investments by our local governments in our transportation infrastructure.  More than 110 vehicles are being added to the highway/roads in the San Antonio region every day. That’s 40,000 plus additional vehicles/drivers each year – the equivalent of a medium-sized city - each year.

What We Do

The San Antonio Mobility Coalition is a non-profit corporation organized in 2001 to advocate for highway, street, transit, freight, and aviation funding for the greater San Antonio region. SAMCo members include Bexar County, the City of San Antonio, VIA Metropolitan Transit, the Alamo Area MPO, the Alamo RMA, AACOG, neighboring cities, San Antonio headquartered corporations, chambers of commerce, the transportation construction and materials industry, the real estate development community, the financial sector, consulting engineers and other interested organizations.

The coalition was borne out of a need to remain competitive with other Texas cities and to address a significant transportation funding shortfall in the San Antonio region.

Since its inception, SAMCo has helped secure more than $9.6 billion in additional funding for transportation projects in the region.

Here is a link to a video which includes more background on SAMCo.

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