The Outlook for Bay Area Transit Post-Election

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bay Area transit agencies have struggled to recover ever since the pandemic decimated ridership and revenue. Several measures on the ballot aimed to shore up public transportation. In San Francisco, Prop. L, which would have provided more funding for Muni, failed. But in Napa, voters approved Measure U to bring $25 million a year to improve transit. With a Republican administration and Congress set to take power in January, local transit agencies, concerned there may be a lack of federal support, are thinking about long term solutions to their funding shortfalls and looking to the state to do more. We’ll talk about the future of Bay Area transit funding and what it means for you. Guests: Dan Brekke, editor and reporter, KQED News Rebecca Long, Director of Legislation and Public Affairs, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Sebastian Petty, Senior Advisor, Transportation Policy| SPUR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.7	Music From KQED in San Francisco. I'm Guy Marzarati in for Alexis Madrigal. What did this year's
1:24.4	election mean for Bay Area Transit? Ever since the pandemic, local transit
1:29.0	agencies have struggled to recover ridership and revenue. In San Francisco and Napa, transportation
1:35.0	advocates asked voters for help this November. We'll discuss how those measures turned out and why
1:40.6	some transit planners are already looking ahead to 2026.
1:44.8	Plus, we'll talk about the results of elections for the leadership of BART
1:48.2	and what the Republican control of the White House and Congress
1:51.8	will mean for the Bay Area's big transit projects.
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2:15.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Guy Marzarati in for Alexis Madrigal. The bill for public transit in the Bay area is coming due. The pandemic changed everything. More people
2:19.1	working at home, fewer riding buses and trains, and the federal aid money that propped up
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