This strike is no longer about fair wages or working conditions. It’s about pay demands that would force route cuts, fare increases and layoffs.

The first three months of electric service saw a 41% in ridership over the same three months in 2023, with Sunday ridership doubling.

Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, said that without the state cash, BART and other big-city transit systems will have to make drastic service cuts.

Without additional revenue from fares, new taxes or some other source, BART is on track to run out of pandemic-era emergency relief funding by mid-2025.

Caltrain's board of directors agreed to delay planned fare increases in an effort to encourage more people to ride the trains, which serve the peninsula from Gilroy to San Francisco.