Bay Area Voice: Make public transit seamless as a condition of new funding

Despite our region’s long-standing support for public transit, it’s frustrating that Bay Area transit doesn’t work well for more people. Ridership was stagnant prior to the pandemic, and is now at about 70% of pre-pandemic levels — one of the weakest recoveries in the nation — creating a financial crisis for Bay Area transit agencies that threaten a future downward spiral of cuts.

The pandemic has forced us to confront two important truths about why more people don’t use transit: We don’t...