Taxpayer money to fill $5.75M Metro Transit budget shortfall

The city of Madison will use more than half of its 2025 budget surplus to cover $5.75 million for Metro Transit due to an increase in salaries and benefits, as well as fare revenue that did not meet fiscal predictions, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.  

Madison originally budgeted $18.4 million on Metro Transit for 2025, but did not expect a rise in costs from the new transit line and an updated contract with union bus drivers. 

Madison is ending the year with more than $10.62 million in surplus, of which the $5.75 million will come from...

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RSK: Seems ridiculous to me. Cut the hours, raise the fares for those who use it I don`t think taxpayers should foot the whole $5.75 mil.