Five years post-COVID, Bay Area transit agencies, including BART, Muni, and Caltrain, are grappling with significant budget deficits. With ridership still low and pandemic relief funds depleting, agencies risk deep service cuts unless new funding sources are identified. A meeting hosted by public policy nonprofit SPUR emphasized the urgency for legislative intervention, with discussions of a new sales tax measure to support transit. However, concerns about the risk of this funding approach were raised, urging the need for alternate strategies to avoid deteriorating public transport services.
There is not much fat left to cut I think is the most important take away here when you really get into the guts of the agency operations.
That would be horrific for the Bay Area. For the people who rely on transit, for drivers because it'll make traffic congestion dramatically worse.
I have said all along for the last really two years, three years, there needs to be a plan 'B'.
I recognize that BART and other agencies can't cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their budgets without decimating their own services.
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