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Members of the San Francisco Bay Area congressional delegation have asked their colleagues in the U.S. Senate and House transportation committees to provide funding for Bay Area Rapid Transit’s (BART) “Fleet of the Future” rail-car replacement project.

In a recent letter, all nine Bay Area members of the delegation requested that any surface transportation legislation authorization include $300 million in funding for the purchase of new cars.

“In addition to this federal support, in order to pay for our Fleet of the Future, we will also need strong local and state support to replace our cars after 40 years of service in this region,” BART President Bob Franklin said in a prepared statement.

BART’s existing fleet is the oldest among large domestic transit agencies, according to BART.

During the next decade, the cars will “continue to degrade and become more obsolete technologically,” so the agency is working on replacing the entire fleet at a total cost of $3.4 billion, BART officials said.