San Francisco transit workers took to Muni buses and trains Tuesday for SFMTA’s first “Fare Day Out,” an effort to encourage riders to pay their fares.<\/p>\n
Transit workers wearing brightly colored vests and carrying signs traveled along various transit lines to educate riders about fare options and the consequences of not paying.<\/p>\n
The effort comes as Muni ridership has increased 12% in recent months and fare revenue has surpassed the agency’s projections.<\/p>\n
SFMTA said fare revenue is $18 million above projections due to growing ridership and increased fare compliance.<\/p>\n
Despite the additional revenue, the agency continues to face financial challenges. SFMTA is reporting a budget deficit of more than $300 million for the 2026-27 fiscal year.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area’s Ginger Conejero Saab has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco transit workers took to Muni buses and trains Tuesday for SFMTA’s first “Fare Day Out,” an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3768,101,103,102,104,106,105,1967],"class_list":["post-429965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-muni","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}