today's special guest is jeff tomlin. >> hi. you are watching san francisco rising. to show that is focused on restarting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest today is the director transportation of the sfmta and he's with us to talk about the agency's 23-24 budget with the muni equity strategy and new projects across the city. welcome to the show. >> thank you it is good to be here. >> i see the sfmta's budget for 2023 and 2024 has been approved. how will it help provide a strong recovery during the next few years for our riders, operators and staff? >> it has been a challenging couple of years. covid wiped out the basic finances. our agency is funded primarily from transit fares, parking fees and a fixed set aside for a general fund and covid has meant we have lost more than half of our parking and transit for revenue. we are not expected to recover them until 2027. this budget takes a one-time federal release funding and spreads that out between now and 2025. and our task is to rebuild trust with the voters that sfmta can actually deliver on their goal

tomlin, head of the mta, thank you so much. >> thank you, city attorney david chu and thank you, chair and mayor and chairman del man. i want to offer gratitude and make a commitment to action. first of all, i want to thank all of you who are here with protest signs, who are here expressing your rightous rage! [applause] we can't do this work without strong community activism and i'm grateful for the time that you spend everyday helping us deliver on this work. you are right to be angry and to demand action. i want to thank those of you who have spent so much time walking the halls with us in sacramento, to legalize the basic tools that are available in ever advance country anywhere in the world except for here in california. thank you for helping us clear the path. i want to thank you for all the work that you do, educating our policy makers that there are solutions to these problems that zero is possible if we have the courage to do the hard work examine to make hard choices. the fighting and the worse catastrophe that this agency has faced. we're going to need real money to convert

tomlin, head of the mta, thank you so much. >> thank you, city attorney david chu and thank you, chairdel man. i want to offer gratitude and make a commitment to action. first of all, i want to thank all of you who are here with protest signs, who are here expressing your rightous rage! [applause] we can't do this work without strong community activism and i'm grateful for the time that you spend everyday helping us deliver on this work. you are right to be angry and to demand action. i want to thank those of you who have spent so much time walking the halls with us in sacramento, to legalize the basic tools that are available in ever advance country anywhere in the world except for here in california. thank you for helping us clear the path. i want to thank you for all the work that you do, educating our policy makers that there are solutions to these problems that zero is possible if we have the courage to do the hard work examine to make hard choices. the fighting and the worse catastrophe that this agency has faced. we're going to need real money to convert plastic straws to concre

today's special guest is jeff tomlin. >> hi. you are watching san francisco rising.t is focused on restarting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest today is the director transportation of the sfmta and he's with us to talk about the agency's 23-24 budget with the muni equity strategy and new projects across the city. welcome to the show. >> thank you it is good to be here. >> i see the sfmta's budget for 2023 and 2024 has been approved. how will it help provide a strong recovery during the next few years for our riders, operators and staff? >> it has been a challenging couple of years. covid wiped out the basic finances. our agency is funded primarily from transit fares, parking fees and a fixed set aside for a general fund and covid has meant we have lost more than half of our parking and transit for revenue. we are not expected to recover them until 2027. this budget takes a one-time federal release funding and spreads that out between now and 2025. and our task is to rebuild trust with the voters that sfmta can actually deliver on their goals and that i