Transit advocates gathered in San Francisco Saturday to support Bay Area public transit with a different kind of march.
“So, we need a little more funding to one allow the recovery to continue and two, to get us to where we can pass a regional measure, a local measure to keep the bus running to keep the train running,” said transit advocate Cyrus Hall.State Senator Scott Wiener spoke to the crowd.
“We know how to solve this. We need about a billion dollars a year for five years that is absolutely doable in the state budget and we are going to keep fighting over the last week that we have to get this done,” he said.“I am now more optimistic than I was that we will get this solved,” he said. “Both houses of the legislature have said they want to solve this and we now need to work it out with the governor.
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