Although San Francisco voters approved a bond measure for $3.5bn, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system is getting set to ask for another $1.5bn to fund projects.
BART suggests the money be raised by increasing tolls on the seven bridges in the Bay Area owned by the state (the Golden Gate is not included). The increase would be between $1 and $3, which could bring the most expensive toll to $9.
BART plans to use the $3.5bn that was approved three months ago for routine improvements to the system, which is now almost 50 years old. The new request will be known as Regional Measure 3, and would be presented to voters in all nine counties in the Bay Area in 2018.
According to Randy Rentschler, who is with the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that would oversee how the money raised by the passage of Regional Measure 3 would be spent, says maintaining Bay Area transportation systems is like owning a house, in that the maintenance is never finished. For its part, BART says what it needs most is new rolling stock to the tune of 306 railcars, which would cost $1.6bn. Other projects include retrofitting the Berkeley hills tunnel, and modernizing the trains' control and traction power systems.
Efforts like this can benefit if officials work with a flyer printing company to create a mailer for voters explaining the issues.
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