{"id":47761,"date":"2026-09-28T00:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47761"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:03:56","slug":"traffic-is-going-to-get-a-lot-worse-san-francisco-bay-area-faces-potential-death-spiral-of-transit-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47761","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Traffic is going to get a lot worse\u2019: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fe8916f69b707b9f4507f5b098e6949d350bc708\/0_0_4000_2662\/master\/4000.jpg?width=1900&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:228px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/26\/san-francisco-bay-area-public-transportation-bart\">\u2018Traffic is going to get a lot worse\u2019: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tl;dr: new 0.5% tax for 4 surrounding counties + 1.0% sales tax on SF to raise ~1B$\/year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayareacouncil.org\/transportation\/new-poll-shows-path-to-victory-for-regional-transit-measure-the-council-is-leading\/\">polling looks promising<\/a>, it is still within the margin of error, and he plans to be out canvassing until November in early El Ni\u00f1o rains if he has to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: \u2018Traffic is going to get a lot worse\u2019: San Francisco Bay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[551,170,1895],"class_list":["post-47761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-san-francisco","tag-trains","tag-transit","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47764,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47761\/revisions\/47764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}