Don’t be surprised if you’re asked in two years to approve a sales-tax hike and possibly an increase in property taxes.
And don’t be surprised if the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ups the price of parking even sooner than that.
With Muni and other local transit systems facing huge budget shortfalls starting in the summer of 2026, local leaders and activists are trying to figure out how to close those gaps. Their work to shore up funding got even more difficult thanks to the recent election.
Proposition L, which would have provided an extra $25 million a year in revenue to Muni operations, failed. Meanwhile, business-tax overhaul Prop. M passed . Among other things, the latter measure will cut revenue in the short term, putting greater stress on The City’s general fund, which provides the lion’s share of Muni and SFMTA funding.
“Our primary work is looking for new sources of revenue,” Jeffrey Tumlin, the agency’s director of transportation, said at a press event Thursday outside its offices.