A new transportation tax intended to prop up Bay Area transit systems just went down in flames. Though this isn’t completely dead yet, it’s another sign that some of the city’s doom loop worst case scenarios are in danger of coming true.
Bay Area transit agencies had been praying for a new transit tax that promised to save them from dire financial straits. But lawmakers pulled the plug on the bill BART and Muni had been banking on—amid growing opposition.
Now, the transit operators will have to wait at least another year before a new effort to save the cash-strapped systems can be launched.
State Sens. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) and Aisha Wahab (D-Hayward), the bill’s authors, promised to introduce new legislation in 2025. The bill would’ve gone to voters on the 2026 ballot.
I wrote about this new tax proposal when it was introduced in March. The underlying problem is that…
