San Francisco's Transit System Won't Survive Without a New Sales Tax

<![CDATA[We've been seeing this particular train wreck coming for at least a couple years now. The Bay Area Rapid Train system (BART) never recovered from the pandemic and the telecommuting that followed. The system got by on federal pandemic money for a few years but that is running out. Now the system is facing huge deficits that will require closing stations and cutting the number of trains unless a new source of revenue is found. The plan to save BART is a new sales tax for the counties where the trains run. Last October a plan was put in place to get the new sales tax on the ballot.]]>