Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Board of Supervisors

Campos Sets Sights on MTA Reform through Ballot Box, Audit

By Michael Rhodes | Feb 10, 2010 | 6 Comments

Supervisor David Campos at a recent gathering outside City Hall. Supervisor David Campos will find himself front and center this month in a multiple-front struggle to answer an age-old conundrum: Why doesn’t Muni work better and how can we fix it? Campos has inserted himself into the debate by leading the charge on a charter […]

Supes Committee to Vote Tomorrow on Muni Operator Wage Proposal

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 27, 2010 | 9 Comments

Flickr photo: Thomas Hawk. A Board of Supervisors committee is set to vote on a proposed ballot initiative that would end a decades-old policy of guaranteeing Muni operators the second-highest transit operator wages in the country. The Rules Committee will take up the proposal at its 10 a.m. meeting tomorrow, after a week in which […]

Plans for Muni Cuts Prompt Campos to Call for MTA Audit

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 20, 2010 | 4 Comments

Supervisor David Campos. Photo: Michael Rhodes The Board of Supervisors doesn’t get to vote on Muni service cuts or worker layoffs, but today Supervisor David Campos exercised one of the options the supervisors do have for influencing Muni by calling for an audit of some of the MTA’s practices. Campos’ call for an audit came […]

San Francisco Struggles to Finance and Build Livable Streets

By Matthew Roth | Jan 14, 2010 | 7 Comments

Folsom Street simulation with elements of the Better Streets Plan. Photo: SF Planning Department As San Francisco’s Better Streets Plan (BSP) street design manual nears environmental certification, many questions remain about financing street maintenance and how all of the agencies responsible for the city’s streets will work together to improve conditions for transit, walking, and […]

Dufty Encourages Riders to Speak at Monday Hearing on Muni Safety

By Michael Rhodes | Nov 20, 2009 | No Comments

Flickr photo: Jeremy Brooks Amid growing concerns that Muni hasn’t gotten safer along with the rest of the city, and widespread reports that police officers rarely ride Muni though they’re required to do so, the SFPD and MTA will update the public on Muni security efforts at a Board of Supervisors committee meeting on Monday. […]

SFPD and MTA to Update Public on Program to Track Officers on Muni

By Michael Rhodes | Oct 20, 2009 | 4 Comments

Flickr photo: AgentAkit Supervisor Bevan Dufty has called for the MTA and the SFPD to provide an update to the public on SFPD’s Bus Inspection Program, and the agencies have agreed to do so at a November 9 Board of Supervisors committee meeting. The presentation will include an update on the trial program to track […]

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