The final chapter in a decade of improvements to the 5 and 5R delivers safer streets, faster Muni service, and enhanced reliability for 15,000 daily riders along one of San Francisco’s busiest corridors.
This summer, the San Francisco Municipal Railway is expected to cut service by 4%, due to a $50 million budget deficit, attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) claims that if these cuts are not implemented, by July the service will no longer be able to afford to replace operators and cleaning and maintenance staff.
Construction began on the L-Taraval streetcar line in 2019, a collaboration with the SFMTA, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Department of Public Works. The construction plan consists of replacing rail tracks, overhead power lines, water and sewer lines, repaving streets, updating landscaping and making the neighborhood safer for pedestrians.
Muni’s plan for adding “rapid” service to the 29-Sunset bus route is now in financial limbo, as the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) struggles with revenue shortfalls plus requests to bring back other lines eliminated during the pandemic.
I’ve been riding public transportation in San Francisco since childhood. As early as age 7, I took buses, street cars and cable cars by myself. For the most part, it was safe. Of course, there were a few dicey experiences, which caused me to grow up faster.
Muni bus service is slowly rolling away from the disaster of a recent pandemic and, judging by the information shared at a Jan. 18 meeting at the Richmond Recreation Center, all eyes now look toward its near and distant future.
In June, Proposition A, the Muni Reliability and Street Safety Bond, lost by just one and a half percentage points. As former San Francisco District 1 Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer wrote in these pages back in July, it was a “wake up call” for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). I agree with her. Moments like this are a good time to reflect on and adjust our approach.
SFMTA Weekend Transit and Traffic Advisory for
Weekend of Saturday, Aug, 6, 202
In response to changing trip patterns and subway improvements, service changes are scheduled for July 9 for the L Bus. The L Bus route will be shortened to run between the San Francisco Zoo and West Portal Station, with increased frequency of trips.
Officers arrived on scene and discovered the train left the station. Officers were informed that the train was headed to the Castro Muni Station. Officers responded to Castro Station where they located two victims on a Muni train. Officers rendered aid and summoned medical attention.
Fulton Street between Sixth and 11th avenues is part of the City’s Vision Zero “High Injury Network” where the most collisions occur — and each of the four locations where the crossing distance would be reduced is a pedestrian entrance to Golden Gate Park.
At the beginning of 2020, the SFMTA’s 29-Sunset Improvement Project was ready to kick-off a year-long outreach program. However, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the project and priorities were shifted …
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced in July that it has completed Segment A of its L-Taraval Improvement Project, a nearly two-year-long effort that aimed to improve transit and landscaping in the Sunset while replacing key sewer and rail infrastructure.
During a lengthy online meeting July 20, the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) approved a permanent change on Geary Boulevard.
The SFMTA is updating and expanding our next big service change targeted for August 14.
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