Bay Area Legislators Suggest Sales Tax To Boost Public Transit Funding

CBS Bay Area

March 25, 2025

Bay Area lawmakers are proposing a regional sales tax to offset a potentially devastating budget deficit for public transportation agencies struggling to fill in the gaps.

Senator Scott Weiner's solution is a one-cent sales tax for San Francisco and a half-cent increase for other Bay Area counties plug holes in the budget.

"It is in everyone's interest to make sure that we have high functioning transit and devastating service cuts where we, for example, have hourly BART trains or no weekend BART service or reduction of Muni frequency by up to 50% and so forth," Wiener said during a press conference unveiling his plan. "That is not in anyone's interest."

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