Member of district’s own board says transit agency prefers to play victim rather than addressing its money problems.
Today, four years after transit ridership across the country was gutted by the pandemic, most urban transit systems have managed to stabilize, in part by making hard choices about service levels and labor costs.
BART prefers to play victim and not address its money problems in part because a coalition of stakeholders stand to gain from the continuing crisis, including its labor-dominated board members, executive management, our enabling Bay Area elected officials, transit activists, non-profits and labor unions.
Rather than take practical steps to resolve its huge operating deficits, BART prefers to simply beg taxpayers, both locally and across America, for billions more in funding to keep expanding the system far beyond rider demand. Meanwhile, BART’s political network continues to lobby government leaders for cash, an effort that successfully brought in over $2 billion in state and federal funds just for operations since mid-2020. That was easy money when the pandemic was still fresh, but it runs out in early 2026.
To avoid a fiscal calamity, strong crisis management is needed. Normally, that involves a highly specialized team of experts who work independent of management, doing a deep analysis of the operations and developing both cost-containment and revenue plans. This usually includes streamlining processes, eliminating under-utilized services, consolidating redundant functions, renegotiating labor and vendor contracts, and plain old budget cuts. So far, little of that has happened at BART.
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