As Muni strives to tighten its belt with the recently proposed San Francisco transit budget, BART aims to please with a daily $5 discount and decreased SFO surcharge fees for San Francisco Airport employees.
On Wednesday the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board adopted a $750 million budget for the next 15 months that would cut service 10 percent and eliminate 584 jobs. The Board of Supervisors, has yet to review the Muni budget. The supervisors have the power to reject the proposed budget and ask for a new one. If the current plan is rejected, the agency’s board has until May 1 to adopt it.
Nathaniel Ford, the Muni’s chief executive officer, told the Chronicle: “We are in a situation where we don’t have the money coming in to support the level of service we have. We can better handle and more safely manage a smaller system than we have today.”
On Friday the San Francisco Chronicle reported that San Francisco International Airport workers will get a daily $5 discount from BART for their commute. On top of that, SFO and BART made arrangements to change the one-way surcharge to use the SFO stop to $1.50, down from $4, for all employees. The discount would save a full-time worker $1,300 a year. There is a downside, though: BART is projected to lose $300,000 to $400,000 in yearly revenue because of the new discount.
