As Muni makes plans for the beginning of all-door boarding, the agency is warning its passengers that they better pay for their rides, or else face the consequences of a citation.
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s board of directors is expected to ask the Board of Supervisors to amend The City’s transportation code to allow for the new boarding policy on its bus fleet.
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Paying for motorcycle cops to manage traffic flow, ticket moving violations and oversee funeral processions might no longer be the responsibility of The City’s transportation department if some transit advocates get their wishes.
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Faced with upcoming budget deficits that exceed $53 million, the head of Muni acknowledged Tuesday that possible transit service reductions are “an honest option on the table.”Unless new revenue models are approved, such as extending parking meter enforcement to evenings and Sundays or eliminating discounts at downtown garages, the SFMTA will have to look at “right-sizing its service,” said director Ed Reiskin at the agency’s board of directors meeting on Tuesday.
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Local transportation advocates are terrified that the pending federal transportation bill could eliminate or drastically reduce funding levels for transit, cycling and pedestrian improvement projects.
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Pedestrian safety advocates are miffed that the director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency didn’t mention one accomplishment related to walking in his year-end list of department achievements.
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Increasing service on the F-Market line, submitting a nearly $1 billion application to the federal government for the Central Subway project, and introducing several new parking meter programs are some of the accomplishments made in 2011 by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, according to a year-end letter posted by executive director Ed Reiskin.
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By:
Ed Reiskin
12/08/11 11:33 PM
I want to thank The San Francisco Examiner editorial page for the consistent attention it’s paying to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
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No one is quite sure when it happened, but at some juncture in the past decade, transportation planners and officials in San Francisco started viewing cars not as transit vehicles but as roving cash machines.
Along the way, they developed strategies for seizing deposits at every stop, whether it was the sidewalk curb outside your home or the once-meter-free area near your workplace.
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Enforcing parking meters on Sunday, raising ticket citations by $3 and increasing single-ride fares by 25 cents are some of the ideas being considered by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to help make up its two-year budget deficit of $79.7 million.
The SFMTA, which operates Muni, released its budget projections for the next two fiscal years Thursday. Like years past, the agency is considering balancing its budget by passing on higher costs to its customers.
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San Francisco’s top lawyer might be out of a job representing The City’s proposed Central Subway.
City attorney and mayoral hopeful Dennis Herrera recently opposed the $1.6 billion project to extend Muni’s T-Third line from SoMA to Chinatown, saying it is overpriced and won’t serve enough people.
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