Steyer sees California’s challenges as the product of captured systems, bad incentives, and powerful incumbents, not as inevitable facts of life. He and his organizations appear more willing than others to name the forces blocking transformational change on transportation, housing, and infrastructure: oil companies, utilities, corporate tax beneficiaries, freeway interests, and regulatory systems that make good projects too hard and bad projects too easy. 

Steyer is an outsider who appears willing to challenge the transportation status quo by tackling the highway lobby and fossil-fuel industry. He has a strong climate record and his takes on housing and transportation align with Streets For All’s values and policy goals.

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