Fellow Democrats push Newsom for transit bailout.
California lawmakers Tuesday pushed back on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget for trimming transit funding and declining to bail out transit agencies like BART, which are threatening deep service cutbacks as they struggle to rebound from a pandemic plummet in ridership.
Newsom’s office hinted at a willingness to compromise Tuesday but noted how the state is scrambling to balance a projected $31.5 billion deficit, just a year after enjoying an unprecedented $97.5 billion budget surplus.closes that budget gap with trims to climate programs, no bailouts for beleaguered mass transit systems and no new taxes. The legislature must pass a budget bill by June 15.
“I’m open to solving every problem that exists, to the extent I can, but you can’t do everything,” Newsom said May 12. “It’s about balancing other priorities. . . I don’t want to over-promise that we’re in a position to offset ongoing subsidies to transit agencies all across the state of California within the confines and constructs of our current obligations within the state.”
Wiener was joined by Democratic senators Dave Cortese of San Jose and Ben Allen of Santa Monica, and Assembly Members Buffy Wicks of Oakland and Damon Connolly of San Rafael, as well as representatives of environmental and transit groups, who argued the transit agencies need a bailout. Craig Segall, former deputy executive officer with the California Air Resources Board, said that “there’s no way California meets its climate goals or cleans up its air if we let public transportation collapse.”
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