With plummeting ridership yet budget increases, BART has transformed from a transit system into an employment agency
, so-called gut-and-amend legislation in which Wiener took a bill on an unrelated topic and rewrote it last week to provide for the $1.50 toll hike. That increase would be adjusted annually to account for inflation.
This attempt to push through without voter approval a bridge toll increase to subsidize transit breaks from the traditional approval process.
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