Aaron Bialick

Muni still hasn't launched double loading of trains in its metro stations, a.k.a. "double berthing," but says it could finally happen in October -- a full year after the original launch date.

BeyondChron editor Randy Shaw, who gets funding from the Mayor Ed Lee's office for projects like the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, penned a predictable defense of Lee's recent attack on Supervisor Scott Wiener's transit funding ballot measure today. Shaw backed Lee's decision to drop support for the vehicle license fee increase, and argued that Muni's share of the city's general fund has increased enough in recent years, compared to other city services.

Ed Lee isn't the first San Francisco mayor to go to bat for free parking. But maybe he'll be the first to realize that this is no way to leave a lasting legacy -- the city will never build a monument to his crusade against parking meters.

From SF Planning:

Mayor Ed Lee, who has cut into transportation funding by nixing Sunday parking meters and abandoning a proposed vehicle license fee increase, now says that he will punish the six supervisors who voted to approve a ballot measure to increase transportation's share of the general fund. Supervisor Scott Wiener proposed the charter amendment as a stop-gap measure to fund the city's transportation needs, while SF waits two years for the mayor to support a vehicle license fee measure.

When it comes to effectively enforcing parking regulations to make San Francisco's streets work more efficiently, SF hasn't changed much since 1988.

The first segment of Market Street's transit-only lanes was colored red this weekend, on the eastbound side between Fifth and Sixth Streets.

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