How Bay Area Transit Plans to Recover Post-Pandemic

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Public transit ridership is slowly rising after the pandemic forced transit agencies to cut services. But few other agencies across the nation decreased service as much as Muni and BART, and San Francisco ridership was at 39 percent of pre-pandemic levels in May, according to a recent San Francisco Chronicle analysis. San Francisco is also experiencing tension between the Board of Supervisors and Mayor London Breed over a proposal to eliminate Muni fares for this summer. We’ll check in with SFMTA, BART, AC Transit and VTA about their announced service increases, capacity requirements and plans to entice riders back. And we want to hear from you: What should these agencies prioritize as they re-expand services? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.7	In the grand scheme of climate change, the expansion of public transit is an inescapable environmental need.
0:58.0	And yet the systems of trains and buses that run throughout the Bay Area carry enormous burdens from the past.
1:03.5	Their budgets are constrained and new projects difficult to complete.
1:07.3	Then the pandemic cratered their ridership and finances.
1:10.8	Things are slowly creeping back, but there are major political disputes about how exactly
1:15.5	to return to service.
1:17.4	We speak with leaders from four of the area's transit agencies about re-emerging from COVID,
1:22.5	their future plans, and why the Bay Area Service has been cut so drastically.
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