Bay Area transit agencies face annual deficits nearing $800 million, leading to calls for increased revenue through a proposed sales tax, which may disproportionately impact lower-income residents.
Whether you sent an email, called your elected representatives, put up flyers, donated, shared the alerts, or did something else to help speak out for transit, this victory wouldn't have been possible without the work you and everyone else put in.
In Illinois, the legislators that were fighting for transit were desperately trying to find new money to fill RTA's budget chasm. A tax on deliveries, tolls, reallocating other sales takes...all of these fixes were proposed and shot-down.
