Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, said that without the state cash, BART and other big-city transit systems will have to make drastic service cuts.

Without additional revenue from fares, new taxes or some other source, BART is on track to run out of pandemic-era emergency relief funding by mid-2025.

Caltrain's board of directors agreed to delay planned fare increases in an effort to encourage more people to ride the trains, which serve the peninsula from Gilroy to San Francisco.