Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Ross Mirkarimi

Supes Muni Reform Measure Nixed as Chiu Strikes Deal with Mayor

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 28, 2010 | 8 Comments

Photo: Myleen Hollero/Orange Photography Fearing a potential defeat by voters on a crowded November ballot, and saying he wants to see faster reform at the SFMTA, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu announced a compromise with Mayor Gavin Newsom late Tuesday night before casting the swing vote against a Muni charter amendment he had originally […]

Parking Tax Revenue Measure for Muni Makes Its Way to Supervisors

By Michael Rhodes | Jun 9, 2010 | 5 Comments

Photo: Myleen Hollero/Orange Photography A parking tax increase that could send $19.2 million to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency moved a step closer to the ballot Tuesday, as Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi introduced the measure before his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors. Mirkarimi made the move at the behest of the SFMTA Board, which […]

Two MTA Board Appointments to Come at Pivotal Time for Muni

By Michael Rhodes | Feb 4, 2010 | 5 Comments

From left: MTA Board Vice Chairman Rev. Dr. James McCray, Jr., Chairman Tom Nolan and Director Shirley Breyer Black. Photo: Michael Rhodes On March 1, the terms of the MTA Board’s two longest-serving directors will end, and a convergence of factors could make their reappointment or replacement more closely scrutinized than any in the agency’s […]

Plans for Muni Cuts Prompt Campos to Call for MTA Audit

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 20, 2010 | 4 Comments

Supervisor David Campos. Photo: Michael Rhodes The Board of Supervisors doesn’t get to vote on Muni service cuts or worker layoffs, but today Supervisor David Campos exercised one of the options the supervisors do have for influencing Muni by calling for an audit of some of the MTA’s practices. Campos’ call for an audit came […]

Mayor, MTA and Bike Activists Celebrate First New Bike Lane in Three Years

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 3, 2009 | 18 Comments

SFBC’s Leah Shahum, the MTA’s Oliver Gajda and SFBC Board Member Dan Nguyen-Tan in the freshly painted green bike box on Scott Street at Oak. Photo by Bryan Goebel. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, three members of the Board of Supervisors, MTA officials, SFBC staff and bicyclists — standing in the glaring fall sun amidst […]

Peak Fuel Report Offers Sober Assessment of San Francisco’s Energy Future

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 23, 2009 | 30 Comments

Somewhere amid the budget drama of the last several weeks, a peak oil and natural gas report (PDF) Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi called "a really big deal" got lost in the shuffle. So, when the Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force showed up before the Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee today, neither the committee’s […]

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