A pair of Bay Area state lawmakers along with various transit advocates are calling for more investment in public transportation systems after BART suffered a regionwide service meltdown Friday.

In a joint statement, Democratic state Sens. Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Jesse Arreguín of Berkeley said BART’s roughly four-hour systemwide service outage Friday morning was “a window into what life in the Bay Area will be like without robust BART service.”

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.