Posts Tagged ‘SFMTA’
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Here’s your San Francisco County Transit Authoritah in a nutshell:
“Created in 1989, the Authority is responsible for long-range transportation planning for the city, and it analyzes, designs and funds improvements for San Francisco’s roadway and public transportation networks.”
Well, the SFCTA is on the move in 2013, doing stuff like making new webpages, and, among other things, looking at Bus Rapid Transit for the 415.
So that means studying, like er mah Gah, monstrous buses like these rigs straight outta Mexico City:

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Now, would BRT be a good thing for those poor souls living out in the West Bay taking the wretched #38 Geary home every night? IDK. I’ll look into it.
Tags: 2013, 80-Foot .Bi-Articulated, bay area, bicycle, Big-Ass, bikes, brt, bus, bus rapid transit, buses, california, car, City, county, district, DPT, funding, geary, inner, Line, map, mexico, money, mta, Muni, my street, My Street SF, MyStreetSF, MyStreetSF.com, outer, pedestrian, project, San Francisco, san francisco County Transportation Authority, sfcta, SFMTA, St. patricks, street, taxpayers, transit, transportation
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Physical graffiti, the worst kind:

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Read all about it, from Joe Eskenazi
Tags: 2013, bay area, booth, california, central, district, fastpass, geary, graffiti, kiosk, masonic, Muni, Paul Rose, reporter, richmond, San Francisco, sf weekly, SFMTA, story, taggers, tagging, ticket, tickets, weekly, wrtier
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
That’s what they’re calling it, MyStreetSF.Com, but all that URL does now is point you to http://www.sfcta.org/mystreetsf-map, which is also new.
Check it, SFCTA is EV ERYWHERE:

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This image is just a snapshot. What you should do is click on over and then start tapping on the interactive map.
[Call and response, like when you were an activist before you became a typical selfish millionaire property-owning NIMBY-type] Whose streets? _MY_ STREETS!
Now you’re on the trolley. In fact, you’re paying for one, right…here. See?
All the deets:
[Click on this link to go directly to the MyStreetSF Projects Map.]
From signals to streetcars, bicycles to boulevards, from pedestrian safety to paving, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) provides funding for hundreds of transportation projects citywide. The MyStreetSF interactive map shows all projects currently underway that are funded by, or prioritized for funding by the SFCTA, as well as those for which the SFCTA provides some level of oversight, in our role as Congestion Management Agency for San Francisco.
Most of these projects are funded with Prop K sales tax funds matching other federal, state, or regional funds. We also provide funding through the Prop AA Vehicle Registration Fee and the Transportation Fund for Clean Air programs.
The MyStreetSF interactive map allows you to search for projects by location, Supervisorial District, project type (e.g., bicycle, pedestrian safety, transit rehabilitation), project sponsor, or timeline. Click on a project on the map to see key information (e.g., short description, schedule, cost) and a link to the project page and/or project sponsor’s main page. The map page also includes information on city-wide projects and programs like Bicycle Education and Outreach.
We’re still beta testing the map and continue to work on new features, such as displaying already-completed projects.
Please let us know what you think. Your comments are invaluable in helping us correct, refine, and improve the map.
Disclaimer This map only shows transportation projects funded or prioritized for funding by the SFCTA, as well as those for which SFCTA is responsible for some level of oversight, acting in its capacity as Congestion Management Agency for San Francisco. SFCTA does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information shown on the map.
Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle, bikes, bus, california, car, county, district, DPT, funding, Line, map, money, mta, Muni, my street, My Street SF, MyStreetSF, MyStreetSF.com, pedestrian, project, San Francisco, san francisco County Transportation Authority, SFMTA, street, taxpayers, transit, transportation
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Here’s what 6th and Stevenson is like today…

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…and here’s the vision for its future, below.
So, just as the horrible SFMTA recently conducted focus groups on the future of Polk, 6th Street is getting its turn.
I’ll tell you, if I were in charge of making 6th street safer, I don’t think I’d put “Slower Cars” at the top of the list.
How about “Less Untreated Mental Illness” instead?
Anyway, our blessed SFMTA will be hosting ”an interactive activation project on 6th Street (between Market and Stevenson)” on May 18th, 2013.
And Twitter will be there too, sort of.
In a better world, Twitter would participate because it wants to, not because it’s contractually obligated to do so.
(And Twitter would pay its fair share of taxes under the rules signed into law by that wild job-killing radical, Gavin Newsom, all the way back in 2004. Twitter, just give me your tax returns and I’ll figure how much more you should have paid and then you can write a check for the difference and send it in to the General Fund.)
NEWSFLASH: The people from the residential hotels you don’t like on 6th Street aren’t going anywhere.
By law.
Oh, and lots of people working at Twitter would still prefer to labor in northern San Mateo County, just saying.
Anyway, on with the show:
“Slower Cars. More sidewalk space. More mid-block crossings. Brighter lighting. Cleaner streets. These are among the ideas and desires recently expressed by the local community for a safer 6th Street.
Safer 6th Street is a collaboration between SFMTA, District 6 Supervisor’s Office, Twitter, Neighborland, SPUR, URBAN SPACEship and other community organizations to address the issue of safety in the 6th Street corridor, and gather further input from the local community as to what can be done to create a safer area for residents, workers and passersby alike.
There is an on-going community process to implement safety measures in the 6th Street corridor, including:
- Sixth Street Improvement Project led by SFMTA, for permanent traffic calming and pedestrian improvements in the corridor
- Supervisor Jane Kim’s District 6 Pedestrian Safety Workgroup, which has been advocating for traffic calming on Sixth Street for the past several years
- Activation projects led by the Mayor’s Office of Economic Workforce and Development
- The recent establishment of The Sixth Street Safety Hub, an SFPD sub-station
In alignment with this process, we ask – how can we, as a community, create a safer 6th Street?
On Saturday, May 18th, between 12-6pm we will be hosting an interactive activation project on 6th Street (between Market and Stevenson), to engage the community and gather ideas and feedback towards this question, with the aim of envisioning a vibrant area and helping to prioritize treatments to the 6th Street design.
Pick your medium – we’ll have a Neighborland board for you to freely write on, a Twitter photo booth, and a collaborative mural installed by ArtIsMobilus.
Until then, share your ideas and comment on others here or on Twitter using the hashtag #safer6th. Through a new integrated platform between Neighborland and Twitter, your tweets will display on the Question page. Any tweets that start with “I want …” and contain the hashtag will auto-magically become ideas on the Question page.
Come join and take part in creating action on the ground!”
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
All right, get up to speed here and then check out demiurgic Chris Roberts right here in the San Francisco Examiner.
From the back:

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And from the side:

See how that balances out?
Actually, I don’t think these ads are necessarily pro or anti semitic.
But I didn’t see how the prior ads were “anti-gay.”
On It Goes…
Tags: 2013, acceptance, ad, anti, apartheid, bay area, bus, california, chris roberts, destination, DPT, end, Examiner, full of hope, gardens, green, israel, jewish, jumps hurdles, june2, leaps fences, logo, love, Love recognizes no barriers, mark, mark twain, market, Maya Angelou, Muni, penetrates walls, poet, poetess, pro, quote, San Francisco, semitic, sfbc, SFMTA, street, twain, UNI, yerba bueana
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
What have we here, a big old Chevron chevron at an SFMTA bus stop?

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Tags: 2013, ad, bay area, big oil, bus stop, california, chevron, clear channel, divest, divestment, fulton, grocery, lucky, market, mta, Muni, oil, retirement, safeway, San Francisco, save at the pump, SFMTA, shell, stock, store, stores, street
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
I guess I know why the SFMTA, America’s worst and slowest large transit agency, wants to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to improve its image. So it will then be able to obtain and spend even more of our money, of course.
But I’m mystified as to the thought process behind its marketing.
For example, here’s a happy meter maid saying, ”I am a single mom working to send my child to private school. I am SFMTA.”

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So the San Francisco Unified School District is that bad, huh?
OK fine.
(TRIGGER WARNING, Lookism: And she’s not a model, she’s a Real Person, an actual DPT Parking Control Officer? Latina/a, just a guess. Very attractive/appealing, huh? How did she get selected? Does someone at at the SFMTA’s in-house agency thumb through a bunch of PCO headshots saying, ” …pooch, dog, I-don’t-think-so, oh-now-here-we-go?” Is that how it works, something along those lines? Funny that, SFMTA.)
If I were the SFMTA, I’d take this ad down and never run it again.
If I were the SFMTA…
Actually, if I were the SFMTA, I’d stop lying to people.
I’d say, “The Central Subway is mostly about pork barrel spending.”
If I were the SFMTA…
Tags: 2013, ad, bay area, bus, california, campaign, central subway, child, citations, count on us to get you there, i am sfmta, latina, latino, logo, Lookism, marketing, meter maid, mta, Muni, muni death spiral, parking control officer, pco, private, public, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Unified School District, school, sfgov, SFMTA, sfusd, side, slogan, teacher's, tickets, TRIGGER ALERT:, union, wherever you're going, wOMAN
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
Are you up to speed on this one?
Laird Harrison of KQED has the deets on the original “My Jihad” campaign.
Then some lady spent money on ads making fun of that campaign. An example can be found here.
But then the SFMTA responded by quoting Maya Angelou since it couldn’t figure out any different way of responding to pressure.
Which, at the time, wasn’t clear to me because Maya Angelou is still alive, right?
So now, I see this ad and now I understand:

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OK fine, a mystery solved…
Tags: 2013, acceptance, ad, bay area, bus, california, destination, DPT, full of hope, green, jumps hurdles, leaps fences, logo, love, Love recognizes no barriers, mark, mark twain, market, Maya Angelou, Muni, penetrates walls, poet, poetess, quote, San Francisco, sfbc, SFMTA, street, twain, UNI
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Figure one of these cams is constantly scanning license plates and the other is used on accident investigations:

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And there are other cameras on this bus as well. For MUNI fights ‘n stuff.
Anyway, if the SFPD is looking for you and you park your ride on a bus line street or, really, if you just drive it around the 415, this bus-mounted camera scanner is how they found you.
And if you park illegally in a bus stop, SFMTA employees will read your plate from the video and use that to issue you a ticket.
Cameras, cameras everywhere…
Tags: arrested, bay area, bus, california, camera, cameras, cops, DPT, license, Muni, plate, sasn francisco, scanner, scannerscanner, SFMTA, sfmta muni, SFPD, Video
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
This wasn’t a sidelined bus waiting for help to get back on the road. No no, this was an operating #6 Parnassus heading inbound on Market just the other day.
San Francisco’s infamous jaywalking* peds will now need to keep an eye out for this kind of thing:

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*Uh, jaywalking isn’t illegal because of Big Oil. No no, jaywalking is illegal because Big Government wants to protect you from killing yourself. Yet another conspiracy theory debunked…
Tags: 2013, 6, access, bay area, bus, california, driver, driving, illegal, jaywalkers, jaywalking, market, mta, Muni, open, panel, parnassus, propped, safety, San Francisco, SFMTA, unsafe, up
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