“This loan will avert a traffic catastrophe and save millions of Bay Area transit riders from losing their ride to work, family and school,” said Wiener, who helped negotiate for the loan alongside his colleague, state Sen. Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley. “After months at the bargaining table, ‘I’m immensely proud that we got it over the finish line,” Wiener said. Arreguín called Thursday’s development “a major victory.”

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