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SFMTA: Church Street Colored Transit Lanes Coming This Weekend

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 21, 2013 | 83 Comments

After months of apparent weather delays, the SF Muncipal Transportation Agency said today that it will implement red-colored transit-only lanes on Church Street between Duboce Avenue and 16th Street this Saturday and Sunday. The project, a pilot in the Muni Transit Effectiveness Project, is expected to reduce delays on Muni’s J-Church and 22-Fillmore lines by […]

All Muni Buses to Get Cameras for Transit Lane Enforcement by Spring 2014

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 12, 2013 | 19 Comments

Every Muni bus will be fitted with a front-facing camera to enforce transit-only lanes by spring of next year, according to the SF Municipal Transportation Agency [PDF]. Three hundred of the 800 buses in the system will receive them by this fall, and all of the new buses being purchased by the SFMTA will get them […]

Muni: All-Door Boarding Continues to Increase Bus Speeds, Fare Payment

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 11, 2013 | 4 Comments

Seven months since Muni changed its policy to allow all-door boarding on all of its vehicles, the agency is reporting continued improvements in service and a drop in fare evasion. On average, all-door boarding has saved buses up to four seconds of “dwell time” per stop, according to the SFMTA [PDF]. While that amount may […]

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Survey: SF’s Top Transpo Priorities Are Fixing Muni, Safer Walking and Biking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 23, 2013 | 6 Comments

San Francisco’s scarce transportation funds should be used to make streets safer for walking and biking, and to make existing Muni service more reliable before expanding it, according to city residents who were asked to choose how to prioritize public spending. The findings come from the “Budget Czar” game, an online budgeting simulator recently used […]

POWER: Mobility for Low-Income San Franciscans Means Putting Transit First

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 18, 2013 | 8 Comments

Advocates for San Francisco’s low-income communities have issued a new report calling for policy changes intended to improve Muni service, increase mobility for transit-dependent San Franciscans, reduce pollution from driving, and improve the city’s economy. “Next Stop: Justice” was released last month by People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), a group that made headlines […]

Will CPMC Pick Up the Slack for Street Safety in the Neglected Tenderloin?

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 9, 2013 | 5 Comments

Despite living in one of the city’s densest residential neighborhoods with one of the lowest rates of car ownership, Tenderloin residents have endured some of San Francisco’s most dangerous streets for walking since traffic engineers turned most of them into one-way, high-speed motorways in the 1960s. In a BeyondChron article yesterday, editor and Tenderloin Housing […]

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