{"id":518386,"date":"2026-11-04T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518386\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:50:18","slug":"san-franciscos-bart-gets-lifeline-as-voters-approve-new-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518386\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s BART Gets Lifeline as Voters Approve New Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The struggling public-transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area received a financial lifeline Tuesday, with voters passing a proposed sales tax to fund the region\u2019s trains, buses and ferries. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793803818_836_.jpeg\" data-size=\"embedded\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>Commuters near a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train in San Francisco, on Sept. 5, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Photographer: David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>An unlikely alliance of labor unions, transit advocates and major tech companies \u2014 including Anthropic PBC and Google \u2014 supported the measure, as transit systems in the area face annual deficits of more than $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>Bay Area Rapid Transit, the area\u2019s major rail network known as BART, had warned that if the measure failed, it would be forced to reduce service and close many of its outlying stations. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The struggling public-transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area received a financial lifeline Tuesday, with voters passing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32646,74213,7689,101,103,102,104,106,105,168889],"class_list":["post-518386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-mass-transit","tag-municipal-tax","tag-sales-and-use-tax","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-transportation-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518386","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=518386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}