Things aren’t going well for California transit agencies. Most still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic ridership. New electric buses are breaking down. And they’re in a funding crisis since the diesel fuel tax is bringing in less money as people switch to electric vehicles.
To get a grip on how to react, state legislators in 2023 created a task force to find ‘transformative’ solutions to all their problems.
That task force released its final report last year, which landed with a thud. In the end, it just asked the same questions it was supposed to answer…