Muni directors give grim budget outlook, say service may take years to recover

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency directors and other city officials at a workshop on Tuesday outlined the necessity of outside funding to help the agency and its public transit services because of lost revenue resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

SFMTA has already made cuts to overtime, bus and rail service, and supply purchases, but officials at the workshop expressed concern that their financial situation could get worse before it gets better. SFMTA’s Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin said that Muni is more financially devastated now than it was during the Great Depression.