Faced with a massive budget shortfall, BART has been warning riders severe cuts to service could be inevitable. But now, lawmakers are throwing it a lifeline.
She relies on BART to get just about everywhere. She doesn’t have a car so BART’s her ticket to get where she needs to go.
“It matters a huge deal to me without BART,” she said. “I barely have a portion of the Bay available to me.”Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. Last month, the company warned if the state doesn’t step up to help fill its massive budget void, BART could have to close stations and eliminate weekend and night service. Now lawmakers are answering that call.
“The legislature has agreed on a lifeline for transit agencies, where that will probably address about half of the problem,” said Sen. Scott Wiener. He said that lifeline includes $1.1 billion to help fund the state’s transit operations, about $400 million of that earmarked for the Bay Area.
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