The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration announced Thursday that it is issuing a grant of nearly $331 million to BART to help the transit agency recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $330.8 million grant is coming from the American Rescue Plan, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and is intended to help BART maintain its staffing and service levels in future fiscal years, as the agency’s ridership is expected to slowly return toward pre-pandemic levels by the end of the decade.
“Public transportation has been a lifeline for communities and the American people throughout this pandemic,” Buttigieg said in a statement. “This funding from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan will help protect transit employees from layoffs, keep transit service running and ensure people can get where they need to go.”
BART is also expected to receive federal funding from the infrastructure bills Congress is currently considering. The agency could potentially receive the funding it needs to complete its extension into downtown San Jose.
Here come the wage increases and benefit enhancements.
Only after the board members skim their take off the top
Great. This will fix BART like the lottery fixed the school system.
Cool!! More money for the unions.
Riders? Get outta here.
..it won’t go into infrastructure improvements – it will go straight into the pockets of the already overpaid BART management & employees…. any bets?
That ought to cover management and their perks.
My first reaction is that I’m glad that some of that covid money will come to us locally. That spending bill was tremendous debt that were all going to have to pay off in the future. I hear most of it’s not being spent…. My worry is that will go into some kind of democrat pet projects, So I hope Bart makes good use of it, considers the warnings in the postings above, and does right. Let’s hold them to the task.
Only $330 million? Why did they stop there? It ain’t their money, they will not have to sacrifice a single thing, and look good to the few that truly support government largesse, with absolutely no consideration of the current and far future producers of our country (tax payers). They can gloat about how much they have and we can watch our hard earned money fall into the politician’s endless clown car of free (other people’s) money. Truly disgusting
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Call it what it is….
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…..a BAILOUT!!!!!
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what a surprise. Someone parroting a conspiracy theory circulating on Fakebook and other social media Testing is sponsored by drug makers and goes through clinical trials and testing by research institutes, universities, etc. The information and data is submitted to the FDA for approval consideration.
@dlo & @me
You two should really coordinate your responses better.
@me you haven’t done anything to disprove me. Typical lib, you say something so it becomes real in your head. This is how pathological liars think. The board knows I post facts not propaganda. Cry more
To others, notice how our both our resident disinformation agents completely ignored the actual conflict of interest about anthony faucis wife? This is a perfect example of how they do things. I really like how they both jumped in like they are trying to put out a fire. This is what is called PANIC!
Christine Grady is faucis wife. Christine Grady is faucis wife.
How much of it will go to fully enclosed turnstiles to stop fare evaders? How much of it will got to having an officer at each and every station from opening to closing? How much of that will go to having staff open a station on time each day?
Or is this just for pay raises and their new office in downtown Oakland?
Here’s an idea; why not adjust (reduce) BART’s trains and employees to accommodate the demand.
Or we could just blow 331 mil on another dem stupid idea.
Whose set to become wealthy in this insane deal?
I don’t take layoffs lightly (the pandemic has hit part of our household income hard), but if there is an organization that could use some layoffs, it is BART.
Implement a program to secure the system, only paying customers can ride. The system will get much better in a hurry.
all government is theft.