BART supporters need 186K signatures by June. Will Hunky Jesus and $7-a-gallon gas get them there?

Advocates gather signatures for sales tax to fund Bay Area transit

A lapse in emergency federal funds is soon to cause massive budget deficits for Bay Area transit agencies. This is in part because ridership has not fully recovered from pre-COVID-19 levels, according to the nonprofit San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Caltrain, Alameda Contra-Costa (AC) Transit, and Muni, transit agencies serving significant parts of the Bay Area, are now collec…

BART supporters need 186K signatures by June. Will Hunky Jesus and $7-a-gallon gas get them there?

Last week’s BART column elicited a fair few arguments against a transit rescue measure. They made as much sense as carpeting on a train.