Posted on 11/22/2022 11:03:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bay Area’s largest transit agency is considering drastic measures to replace its funding model — such as cutting weekend service — as it attempts to resolve the financial instability spurred by the pandemic.
BART is looking ahead to 2025, when the agency is expected to fully exhaust the $1.6 billion in federal assistance it received to remain afloat during the pandemic. The funding model for BART before the pandemic relied mostly on farebox recovery, which amounted to about 70% of its overall funding.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the agency responsible for regional transportation planning and financing, ordered BART and the other regional transit agencies to prepare a five-year transit plan.
MTC asked the agencies to create three scenarios for the near future: what would happen if ridership returned to its pre-pandemic levels, what would happen if there was “some progress” for ridership, and what would happen if ridership remained stagnant and the federal funds run out.
The worst-case scenario describes a future where BART needs to close a $233 million average annual gap.
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Who wants to visit a downtown station with a hundred homeless sitting along the walls and the elevators turned off, due to those homeless using them as toilets?
That, coupled with some very loud sections when beginning to go into under water tunnels, is likely just the start of issues.
How’s that high speed train coming that America paid for?
The lefties will just turn it over to the homeless in less than 3 years....
The urban rats are tired of being urban rats.
Its the USA in a microcosm - particularly, urban/blue/leftist.
Without massive Fed.gov debt, and Federal Reserve money printing and QE to buy that debt, America's progressives would have died off years ago
GREAT-—SHOVE people OUT of their vehicles & then shut down MASS TRANSIT.
Could it be rising crime ?
“high speed train”
They gave up on the Fresno to Modesto route—decided to go big—Moon to Mars!
;-)
Maybe these jerks should consider: Crime and filth on the BART train, on your way into crime and filth in San Francisco.
Ridership and revenues are way down in almost all urban transportation systems in Democrat run areas Fare beating and the fact that decent,rational people prefer to utilize the new technologies, work from home and avoid going to crime ridden cities. These transportation systems have all been losing huge amounts of money and have been subsidized by Biden bucks approved by the Democrat controlled Congress. If a Republican House refuses to fund these money losers, things will really get interesting.
Does BART use electric trains? I have heard that is a great way to face the future.
I’ve used public transportation in the Bay area.
BART, Buses, and Shuttles. And of course POV, rental car, or walking.
I would not ride a bike in the bay area.
BART SUX!
It is just a very high priced jobs program for Black people.
Much like Amtrak.
It's coming along great. 30 years after the first public bonds were sold, they finally decided on which route it will take.
BART was getting very crappy when I used to ride it into the City from Walnut Creek every day fifteen years ago - I can only imagine how much worse it is today. There seems to be almost no way for the system to make money if the nearly insatiable commuter demand of two decades ago is becoming a thing of the past. It will just be another permanent government giveaway like Phoenix light rail - a rolling homeless shelter offering nice contractor kickbacks to Democrat politicians.
People won’t willingly blow hours of their day wasting time on a train or in traffic if they aren’t required to by their jobs. It’s a total ripoff.
Whatever.
They were touting how ridership had increased to some 70% prepandemic just 6 months ago and I called “BS!”
Go to any BART parking lot and they are largely, mostly or completely empty....
Further, ain’t no one going to downtown San Francisco, which only has a 31% daily occupancy rate and of the people I know who are still going: They use to ride BART but, it is too dangerous and the routes are inconvenient as they are only in the office part of the day.
Kind of like riding around Jurassic Park with Jeff Goldblum, hoping the muggersauruses aren’t on the loose.
Like NYC subway, why would I want to get on mass transit when there are punks riding who could rob or kill me??
The first of the pure HSR segments, the Initial Operating Segment (IOS), is planned to begin operations in the southern-part of the Central Valley in 2029. Maximum train speeds will be about 220 miles per hour (350 km/h) in the dedicated HSR segments and about 110 miles per hour (180 km/h) in the blended segments. Extending the IOS to connect to the north and south metropolitan segments is dependent on future funding, so its timing is uncertain.
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