Bay Area Transit Tax Measure Clinches November Ballot Spot, Setting Up $980MM Funding Fight

Connect Bay Area submitted more than 305,000 signatures for SB 63's five-county sales tax, but business and taxpayer groups are already mobilizing against what they describe as a transit-agency bailout. A regional sales tax that would pour roughly $980 million a year into Bay Area transit operations has cleared the toughest procedural hurdle on its […]