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Governs the Municipal Transportation Agency, setting policy for Muni transit, streets, traffic, parking and taxis.
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Board authorized an RFP for armed and unarmed security services with a 3-year term and 2-year option, redesigned to boost competition and control costs.
Why it matters: The expiring contract cost about $65 million versus a $59 million estimate; it is the first of SFMTA's three highest-spend contracts rebuilt under its budget plan.
Mayor's Office and SFMTA outlined a multi-agency working group to recommend e-bike, e-scooter and e-moto safety measures by spring 2027.
Why it matters: Injury collisions involving stand-up powered devices doubled year over year, and one director openly floated scrapping the city's scooter-share program, as Paris did.
Directors retroactively accepted a Civic Joy Fund beautification gift already installed at an SFMTA property and questioned the process.
Why it matters: Raises how community groups can partner on beautification under the new Community Corners program and whether the $10,000 board-approval threshold should rise.
Directors unanimously turned a bus/taxi lane unused by Muni for about seven years into a general traffic lane to relieve Market Street gridlock.
Why it matters: Staff and a Muni operator say Bay Bridge queues from the lane pinch block Market Street buses and crosswalks; directors also demanded fixes to confusing Transit Center transfers.
Board unanimously converted a 2016 transit/commercial-only lane on Sansome to general traffic and added about 10 metered spaces in Jackson Square.
Why it matters: Transit advocates call it a retreat from red lanes and a signal the suspended 10 Townsend won't return; staff say 12 Folsom impacts will be negligible and monitored.
Consent items approved unanimously, including SFMTA payments to BART for rehabilitating four Embarcadero Station escalators.
Why it matters: Embarcadero is a first-impression station near the Ferry Building and Transbay where escalator outages burden riders with mobility limits.
Public commenters urged quick-build daylighting and bulb-outs and completion of the long-delayed Arguello safety project after an 80-year-old was killed.
Why it matters: The project was supposed to start in 2023 and has $1.2 million in designated funding, yet commenters say nothing has been built while pedestrian deaths reach 13 this year.
Kirschbaum honored retiring maintenance chief Charles Drain, reported West Portal safety and sales tax gains, and memorialized former directors Will Din and Leona Bridges.
Why it matters: Evaluation shows the contested West Portal red-lane project reduced crashes and illegal U-turns while local sales tax grew faster than the citywide average.
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E-Scooter Injuries Double as SFMTA Board Questions Scooter Share's Future Injury crashes involving stand-up powered devices have doubled in a year. At the SFMTA Board's Oct. 6 meeting, one director suggested San Francis...
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Board Approves CARB Bus Exemptions as $400M Electrification Gap Looms The SFMTA board voted unanimously to seek five years of exemptions from California's zero-emission bus mandate, acknowledging that even one of North...
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SFMTA Board Confronts July 4th Transit Meltdown, Greenlights Chinatown Improvements The SFMTA Board of Directors spent much of its July 21 meeting reckoning with the agency's worst transit failure in recent memory — a J...
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Hayes Valley Gets Metered Parking Overhaul as State Funding Cuts Loom Over Muni The SFMTA Board of Directors unanimously approved a sweeping expansion of pay-or-permit parking across 68 Hayes Valley blocks, piloting fir...
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Board Approves 29 Sunset Bus Upgrades, Orders Review of San Bruno Bike Lanes The SFMTA Board unanimously greenlit Phase 2 of the 29 Sunset Improvement Project — one of the city's most ambitious crosstown bus overhauls —...
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Board Approves $4.3B Budget That Hinges on Two November Ballot Measures The SFMTA Board of Directors unanimously approved a two-year operating and capital budget balanced only by assuming San Francisco voters will pass...
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Board Wrestles With Cable Car Fares as $1.56B Budget Takes Shape The SFMTA Board of Directors spent the bulk of its March 17 meeting hashing out the financial architecture of a two-year budget that must close a $307 mil...
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Board Greenlights $1.4B Potrero Yard Rebuild After Fierce Housing Fight The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board's March 3 meeting was defined by a single, wrenching question: Can San Francisco mo...
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SFMTA Board Wrestles With $2.3B Capital Plan as $307M Budget Gap Looms The SFMTA Board of Directors spent the bulk of its Feb. 17 meeting grappling with a five-year capital plan that has $250 million less revenue than t...
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SFMTA Confronts Record $307M Deficit, Warns of Gutting Muni if Voters Say No San Francisco's transit agency laid bare the stakes of its **deepest-ever fiscal crisis** at a marathon budget workshop Tuesday: without two n...
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