BART logs 5.4 million riders in March, highest monthly total since pandemic

BART recorded its highest monthly ridership levels since 2019 in March, advancing a slow, years-long comeback from reduced commuter traffic that evaporated during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. 

The transit agency is facing an ongoing yearly budget deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars and has pinned its hopes on a regional ballot measure this fall that would raise the sales tax in the five counties that carry BART trains.