Transit & Safety

BART is threatening to close 10 stations as early as January 2027 and end service at 9 PM system-wide unless voters approve a half-cent to one-cent regional sales tax in November. The transit agency is using the "doomsday scenario"—which would gut half the yellow line and eventually kill the blue line entirely—to pressure taxpayers into a bailout despite spending $96 million on overtime in 2023 and refusing to address endemic waste and mismanagement.