With the fate of a requested state transit bailout uncertain, the BART board of directors this week approved a $5.1 billion, two-year budget calling for fare and parking fee hikes — as a proj…
With the fate of a requested state transit bailout uncertain, the BART board of directors this week approved a $5.1 billion, two-year budget calling for fare and parking fee hikes — as a projected $93 million deficit looms in 2025.
“Compared to the rest of the world, BART is a little bit expensive,” Kim said. “If I have to pay more I would probably drive.” Late last month, several Democratic state lawmakers, led by Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, appealed to Newsom to bail out transit. They argued the transit agencies’ low ridership isn’t their fault and that dramatic service cutbacks would only undercut California’s efforts to combat pollution blamed for warming the climate.
“I’m open to solving every problem that exists, to the extent I can,” Newsom said last month. “But you can’t do everything.” Stepping down into the Montgomery Street station to head back home to Fremont, Noah Isibor, 32, said he isn’t too upset about paying more for BART, but that he wants to see something out of it. He said BART has to “be more like what it used to be.”
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