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. Read More
Revenue bonds totaling $170 million were authorized by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency on Tuesday, the first such act since a 2007 ballot initiative paved the way for their creation. Read More
Extending parking meter hours and enforcing meters on Sundays — proposals that received strong backlashes when they were first broached last year — are once again gaining support from the body that governs the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Read More
Some 48 Muni operators are still without commercial driver’s licenses — but Muni says it is just weeks away from a plan to fire them.
Last fall, The San Francisco Examiner reported that more than 50 operators lacked driver’s licenses, and three had gone without since 2008. Read More
Credit card fees for taxi drivers, an issue that has led to protests and threats of strikes, might be lessened or eliminated.
On Monday, the Taxi Advisory Council recommended ending a pilot program allowing cab companies to charge drivers a 5 percent credit card transaction fee. In place since October, the program grants companies a waiver from San Francisco’s transportation code protecting drivers from such fees. Read More
The successor to departing Muni chief Nathaniel Ford will almost certainly be a local hire, and there is a chance the agency’s next executive director will no longer be The City’s highest-paid employee.
Ford will be stepping down on June 30 after 5½ years as the executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which is responsible for overseeing transit, traffic, pedestrian, bike and cab operations in The City. Read More
Seeking to derail the voter initiative that gave Muni more leverage in contract negotiations with operators, a union has jeopardized $2 billion in federal funding for projects including bus and light-rail replacement and the Central Subway.
By targeting the funding, the union hopes to force Muni to seek the repeal of Proposition G, thus strengthening the hand of the Transport Workers Union Local 250-A in ongoing bargaining talks. Read More
Five months after the plan was originally unveiled, a promised crackdown on parking enforcement has finally begun, although the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency insists the project isn’t intended to milk motorists for cash.
In January, the SFMTA, which manages parking in The City, revealed a redeployment plan for its parking control officers, a strategy included in the agency’s plan to make up a budget shortfall of $21.2 million. Read More
Under a proposal being recommended by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, residential homebuilders could be slapped with new fees that opponents say would discourage development in The City.
The SFMTA is considering imposing Transit Impact Development Fees — a revenue-generating program that is currently only applied to commercial projects — on residential builders. Read More
Nothing stokes populist rage like talking about Muni in San Francisco.
And if you are talking about Muni dumping its riders off before the end of the line, then you may end up with people yelling. Read More
