‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system

A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic

Source: ‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system


tl;dr: new 0.5% tax for 4 surrounding counties + 1.0% sales tax on SF to raise ~1B$/year

fta:

Though polling looks promising, it is still within the margin of error, and he plans to be out canvassing until November in early El Niño rains if he has to.

wtf is up with elections being so close? why is everything seeminlgy 50/50? are there issues where there is overwelming support or dissapproval of?

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