Senior News Reporter

George Kelly

But BART and Muni are not out of the woods yet.

Fares will go up by 11% over the next two years to help offset the transit system’s post-pandemic deficits.


Boosting ridership is key as the system rushes headlong into a fiscal cliff as federal relief funds expire.

BART officials said the agency’s operating revenue remains hundreds of millions of dollars below pre-pandemic levels due to low ridership.

The transit agency’s future is complicated by San Francisco having one of the worst economic recoveries from the pandemic in North America.