A San Francisco Muni train and a truck collided in the city's Mission Bay neighborhood Tuesday morning, a Muni spokesman said.
The accident, which involved a K/T-Third line train, was reported at 8:40 a.m. at Third and Channel streets, Muni spokesman Paul Rose said.
The truck apparently made a left turn in front of the train and was struck, Rose said.
A person inside the truck was taken to a hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries, he said.
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A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over more than 100 workers in The City’s now-defunct Redevelopment Agency, which was eliminated late last year by state legislation and subsequent legal wrangling.Under the legislation that killed about 400 agencies statewide, cities and counties are allowed to appoint oversight boards to continue work that was already under contract, but projects not far enough along — and the staff that oversaw them — will be scrapped.
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The City’s biotech industry got a boost Tuesday, as Mayor Ed Lee joined the Canadian ambassador to the United States in announcing a new startup incubator in UCSF’s growing hub for such companies.
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Despite protests from residents in neighboring communities, The City is moving forward with plans to install parking meters in Mission Bay.In January, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which regulates traffic in The City, pulled back on a proposal to install 5,000 meters, mostly in eastern neighborhoods near Mission Bay, after hearing hundreds of residents speak out against the plan.
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A plan to build 2 million square feet of office and retail space in Mission Bay as a headquarters for tech giant Salesforce has been suspended, a company spokesman said Monday.Rapid growth within the company was said to be the main reason for the delay.Salesforce, a cloud computing company, said in a statement it added 500 more employees in the past year, far exceeding expectations.
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The massive new Salesforce.com campus at Mission Bay will continue unperturbed, despite the elimination of agency that oversees such projects.Although the plans are expected to survive the death of the Redevelopment Agency, it remains unclear exactly how The City will find traction for massive projects in the future.
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Despite the outraged protests of neighborhood residents, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency plans to install 5,000 new parking meters in the Dogpatch, Mission Bay and Mission neighborhoods.
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With the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency on its last legs, Mayor Ed Lee is moving quickly on doing damage control before investors turn a cold shoulder to big project plans that have already been years in the making.
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Although the University of California regents canceled a meeting scheduled to begin in Mission Bay this morning, thousands of students did not cancel their plans to protest.
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Laying blame on the state while searching for solutions, UC regents and other officials discussed a doomsday scenario of skyrocketing tuition Thursday as funding shortfalls continue to mount.
Tuition at University of California campuses could rise 16 percent a year for four years if the state does not provide adequate funding, administrators said during the Board of Regents’ September meeting at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus.
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