Its response to plummeting ridership is increased spending, more train service and pleading for a taxpayer bailout
Critical for BART transbay ridership, there is no sign that workers will return to San Francisco offices in anywhere near pre-pandemic numbers. Remote and hybrid work is here to stay. Which is why the city’s office vacancy rate keeps reachingBART’s days of ridership glory are over. It’s time the transit agency’s leaders start scaling service accordingly. Yet, its leaders are making no attempts at a rational correction that would involve trimming budgets and rightsizing service levels.
It’s madness. It’s little wonder the district is staring at the $1 billion projected shortfall over the next five years, by far the worst of any Bay Area transit agency, according to data from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. General Manager Bob Powers is convinced that the money will come through from Sacramento because the transit agency is too big to let fail. “We are optimistic that we will secure this new source,” Powers wrote in an April 4 memo to staff. “BART is simply too valuable to the Bay Area to drastically reduce or stop operations.”
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