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SFMTA Considers Service Restoration, Counts on Labor Savings
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency continues to work with Mayor Gavin Newsom and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu to identify strategies for restoring the remaining 40 percent of service that was cut in May, part of a political negotiation that is expected to cost the agency $20 million. Though only one piece of […]
SFMTA Engineering, Maintenance and Safety Committee
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Agenda On the agenda: Strategic Plan updates from Operations & Customer Service Committee meeting Muni+ application presentation/discussion Subway platform display and public announcement system design presentation/discussion
Geary BRT Advisor Resigns in Frustration at Snail’s Pace of SFCTA
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Bus Rapid Transit on Geary Boulevard was originally slated to open last year. But today, planners are looking at a launch in 2020 — an eight-year setback for a project that was supposed to take advantage of low costs to get off the ground quickly. For Kieran Farr, the cycle of delays, studies, and outreach campaigns […]
Should San Francisco Regulate Chariot?
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Last week, members of the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee were “shocked” to hear that a hugely disproportionate number of traffic violations in downtown San Francisco are committed by Transportation Network Companies (TNC), mainly, Uber and Lyft. The rub is that Uber and Lyft, since the cars are owned by private citizens, […]
SF Transit Riders Union Holds First Meeting, Debates Priorities
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Photo: Troy Holden Roughly two dozen attendees came out to the inaugural meeting of the San Francisco Transit Riders Union (SFTRU) on Thursday evening and had a spirited — at times heated — debate about how to make the fledgling organization a vocal constituency representing the diverse interests of Muni riders. Billed as an opportunity […]