Bay Area public transportation systems grappling with massive budget shortfalls caused by the coronavirus found out how much money they will get in a first round of emergency funding from last month’s $2 trillion federal stimulus package.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission approved a plan Wednesday to distribute $780 million — 60 percent of $1.3 billion earmarked for the Bay Area — to the operators of transit systems big and small, from BART to the city of Rio Vista.
BART will get the largest slice from the first round of funding: $251.6 million. Muni’s share is next-highest at $197.2 million.
The commission plans to distribute the rest of the funding in the future, once the longer-term impacts of the virus and shelter orders become clearer.
Here’s how much other key local transit operators got from the commission:
- AC Transit: $80.4 million
- Valley Transportation Authority: $73 million
- Caltrain: $49.3 million
- Golden Gate Transit: 30.2 million
- SamTrans: $28.5 million
- San Francisco Bay Ferry: $12.5 million
- County Connection: $7.1 million
- LAVTA: $3.5 million
- Western Contra Costa Transit Authority (WestCat): $2.2 million
- Eastern Contra Costa Transit Authority (Tri-Delta Transit): $3.9 million
