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Posted on 05/09/2026 3:49:47 AM PDT by DFG
San Francisco's BART rail system is facing the possibility of sweeping station closures and potentially an even wider shutdown, as officials warn the cash-strapped transit agency is running out of money.
The Bay Area network, which operates 50 stations across five counties, is confronting a projected budget deficit of roughly $376 million next fiscal year as ridership remains far below pre-pandemic levels and federal relief funding expires.
The cash-strapped transit agency is hurtling toward a financial cliff as ridership remains far below pre-pandemic levels and emergency federal funding dries up.
Under a proposed emergency service plan, BART could eliminate rail lines, shut down up to 15 stations, slash operating hours, hike fares and lay off more than 1,000 workers if voters fail to approve a new tax measure later this year.
But transit officials have also acknowledged even those painful cuts may not be enough to save the network and stop what some board members have described as a financial 'death spiral' that could ultimately threaten the future of the entire system.
'If at any point BART determines that it can't safely or legally operate with available resources, a full shutdown is still on the table,' the agency's alternative service proposal states.
The looming meltdown comes as San Francisco continues battling deep post-pandemic problems that have battered the city's economic recovery, including empty office towers, struggling downtown retail corridors, rampant homelessness, open-air drug use and persistent concerns over crime and public safety.
Ridership on BART has never fully recovered after the pandemic emptied office buildings and accelerated remote work, leaving the transit agency dependent on a shrinking pool of commuters.
For hundreds of thousands of commuters, students and workers who built their lives around the train system, the warning has come as a huge shock.
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Liberals
. Ruin
. . Everything
I used BART in 1985. It was nice back then. I’ve heard it has become disgusting since then. Public transit tends to attract the worst kind of people to it.
Only rats and coffins go underground. I avoid tunnels, parking garages and subways.
Well said!!
Huh.
I bet they could easily find $500 million if they chose to end some of their “feel good” programs that the drug users and homeless only benefit by.
Of course the mass transit that so many depend on to get around isn’t nearly as important to the ones that crave the power of office there, but perhaps if the proletariat come together and demand it they will do it to protect their elected seat of power.
Throwing the common people a gnawed bone they are paying huge taxes for every once in a while so they can feel magnanimous for themselves by doing what they are put in office to do in the first place.
The map is not to scale.
Millbrae is not that far south.
https://ontheworldmap.com/usa/city/san-francisco/san-francisco-bay-area-map.html
Let mentally ill drug addicts and common violent street criminals run free, and people decide they don’t want to risk riding public transit. And retards wonder why ridership is down. This isn’t that hard.
Maybe if they insisted people pay to ride it
In Charlotte, we have a 3 billion dollar Light Rail that everyone is afraid to ride.
I was going to say California should divert that high-speed rail money to BART. But if BART is running a huge deficit year after year, even that won’t help in the long run.
What would help? Electing conservatives to run the state.
Good luck with that.
Wife and I rode the Elevated train once to go to a Cubs game and I swore never to do that again. That was one scary experience, the freaks on that train were ready to explode, oh and then there were the Cubs fans…🤣🤣🤣
Top priority of government spending - lavish employee salary and benefits. The job they actually are supposed to be accomplishing does not need to be done.
Just turn it into one giant homeless encampment......it’s halfway there anyway so WTF? 🤷♂️
My easy guess is none none none are paying their fares. First time I saw a silver color BART train roll into an outdoors station, I was mildly shocked. It was so gleaming and beautiful.
Arguably, the most beautiful city in the world destroyed, almost as if our enemies got together and planned its demise.
You noticed that too?
And if they were NOT trying to do that, what would they be doing differently?
The Bay Area has high taxes and some of the most valuable companies in the world. But, they want to pay for health care for illegals, etc, so taxes apparently aren’t high enough yet.
It’ll get much better once it’s free.
I’ve taken the BART and I was shocked at the homeless sleeping in the stations. They peed and pooped so much in one inside elevator that they put an “Out of Order” sign in it. Still, at least 50 homeless were lined up against the wall, opposite it, on a perfectly nice day. It was like a free campground.
The ride under the Bay from Oakland is incredibly loud. I don’t know what maintenance they need to perform to lubricate the screeching metal, but they didn’t seem to care.
San Francisco is a poop hole. Literally.
Liberals ruin everything.
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