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SFMTA Board Delays Budget Vote to Refine Free Muni for Youth Proposal
The SFMTA Board of Directors postponed a vote on a two-year budget yesterday in order to refine a proposal to provide free Muni for all youth. The board seemed to favor the rest of the budget, including enforcing parking meters on Sunday afternoons.
April 4, 2012
Half of SF’s Traffic Signals to Get Transit Priority Within Two Years
Two years from now, Muni buses will have traffic signal priority at 600 intersections throughout the city, SFMTA Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP) Manager Julie Kirschbaum told the agency's board of directors today.
March 20, 2012
Muni to Switch to All-Door Boarding on July 1
Streetfilms documented the benefits of all-door boarding in March 2010.
March 16, 2012
Tell SFMTA How You’d Improve Eight Muni Routes at Upcoming Workshops
The SFMTA is aiming to implement its plans to speed up Muni service under the Transit Effectiveness Project by 2017, beginning with eight priority routes.
March 8, 2012
SFMTA Leaning Toward Extended Meter Hours, Away From Fare Hikes
A picture is forming of how the SFMTA might address its budget shortfalls over the next two years. The SFMTA Board of Directors and an advisory panel of community leaders seem to oppose any further fare hikes or service cuts for Muni riders while mostly favoring extending parking meter hours to nights and Sundays -- a politically challenging yet long-overdue measure.
March 7, 2012
SFMTA Increases Fines for Double Parking and Sidewalk Riding
Yesterday the SFMTA Board of Directors signed off on raising fines for double parking, obstructing traffic, and riding bikes on sidewalks to $100. The fines were previously $80, $50, and $50 respectively -- "substantially lower than the penalties for similar violations" set in 2010, according to the SFMTA [PDF].
February 22, 2012
Stockton Bus Riders Take a Back Seat to Central Subway Construction
As if squeezing onto the 30-Stockton wasn't already undignifying enough, Muni riders on Stockton Street soon face a four-year detour to make room for the construction of the Central Subway project.
January 12, 2012
Slow Progress in Curbing SFMTA’s Costly Overtime and Work Orders
As the SFMTA struggles to provide reliable Muni service, little headway has been made in curbing the amount it spends on staff overtime and work orders issued to other departments.
December 9, 2011
What’s the Hold Up for Van Ness BRT?
For what's intended to be a relatively quick, cost-effective transportation solution, San Francisco's first Bus Rapid Transit route on Van Ness Avenue has been a long time coming. Planners first conceived the project in 2004, and as late as two years ago, it was scheduled to open in 2012. Since then, construction has been pushed back to 2016.
December 2, 2011