Save Muni and BART

One of the things I love about living in San Francisco is the public transportation. Muni and BART have been essential part of the city for decades and are key ingredients to building a thriving city for the next century. However, they both face massive budget deficits and devastating cuts to services are looming. This crisis here in San Francisco is unfortunately not unique, as public transportation across the country has been underfunded and neglected for decades.

We can fix this. In Congress, I will fight to repurpose funding from new highway projects to instead subsidize the day-to-day operations of transit agencies — something that has not been done since the 1990s. But more funding is not enough. I want to set Muni and BART on a path to thrive for decades to come. For example, I call for using federal incentives to build hundreds of units of affordable housing on Muni-owned land. This would allow Muni to generate more revenue and help solve our housing crisis.