Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit is seeking to significantly boost ridership and ramp up work on delayed rail extension projects and paths.
SMART plans to release its proposed budget for public review at sonomamarintrain.org on Monday. Public comments are due on June 5. The board of directors is set to vote on the budget at its meeting at 1:30 p.m. June 21.
The $110 million that SMART plans to spend in the 2023-2024 fiscal year is a significant increase from the $77 million projected in this fiscal year.
Most of the increase would be allotted for $41.6 million of rail and path construction projects beginning this year. The projects include an extension of rail service from Santa Rosa to Windsor, a rail extension from Windsor to Healdsburg and construction of a northern Petaluma station. The agency is also working to complete several new path segments in Marin and Sonoma…
