"2026 is going to be our year,"
"service resumed before the peak commute."
"Right now, our public transit agencies are facing a fiscal cliff,"
"It would basically become a much less reliable service for people who need it every day to get around, people who don't have cars,"
Early Wednesday, a third-rail power loss halted BART Yellow Line service between Concord and Orinda just before 5 a.m., disrupting riders until service resumed around 6:40 a.m. Passengers scrambled during the outage and the transit agency said service resumed before the peak commute. Connect Bay Area launched a campaign to place a five-county sales tax transportation funding measure on the November 2026 ballot to support transit across Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Without new operations funding, agencies face a fiscal cliff that could force BART to cut two lines and reduce weekly trains from 4,500 to 500, with hourly service and no weekends; Caltrain, Muni and AC Transit would also face reductions.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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