Cali dumps $3.1 billion into public transit systems to keep them from bankruptcy

[T. A. Gardner]

Yep, Cali's state government, already in a big deficit, just plopped down $3.1 billion to save various state mass transit systems like BART from going under. Ridership is plummeting on these systems due to both people leaving the state and being afraid to use them out of fear of being mugged, etc.

California lawmakers reached a handshake deal late Sunday that would provide more than $3 billion for BART, AC Transit, Caltrain and other beleaguered transit agencies that say low ridership since the COVID-19 pandemic is sending them over a fiscal cliff and without state aid would lead to catastrophic service cuts.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06...ransit-bailout-deal-will-gov-newsom-go-along/

California’s $3.1 Billion Transit Bailout Forces Trade-Offs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth...transit-bailout-forces-trade-offs/ar-AA1cst41

So, on top of that endless black hole called high speed rail that's been sucking the state's budget dry for over 15 years now--and has never moved a single passenger--the state has to prop up failing mass transit systems people refuse to use.

Welcome to the third circle of Leftist Hell...

 

[Hawkeye10]

This will work only till the money trees give out. I was reading that almost no one rides the LA subway but vagrant anti-social types, and that people are abandoning BART for the same reason.

This is how cities die.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Do you really want to take the chance of being trapped on a bus with a mentally ill drug addict?

Increasingly people say no, forcing the cutting of the system, which has the effect of further cutting ridership as everything depends upon there being a bus going where you need it to go when you need to travel.