Leaders from transportation systems throughout the Bay Area came together to ask the state for help before they fall off a fiscal cliff.
"While our trains, our buses, our ferries are attracting more and more people, it's gradual and it's not happening fast enough," Metropolitan Commission Executive Director Andrew Fremier said.
During Friday's press conference, leaders from multiple agencies, including BART, Tri Delta Transit and others, collectively called on state lawmakers to factor a bigger piece of the budget for Bay Area transportation, while not giving a price tag.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
"We know the state is facing fiscal challenges," Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wonderland said."I guess everyone is, but we have to prioritize transportation." In BART's case, federal relief funding runs out in 2025. The agency said without help from the state, the system will quickly rack up a deficit of more than $310 million per year, a deficit that could require deep service cuts just to keep the trains on track.
"The fiscal cliff is real and we are in discussions right now with the state of California and Sacramento on providing operation money to keep transit moving," BART CEO Bob Powers said.
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