Speak up for Transit-only Lanes

Regional Rider Safety 

Voters Want Progressive Transit Funding

Organizing for Transit

Transit News

Speak up for transit-only lanes

We can create miles of transit-only lanes across the city as part of SFMTA's Transportation Recovery Plan to ensure Muni has priority on the street. These transit-only lanes would be pilot projects, and would go a long way to achieve our 30x30 vision of fast, reliable trips for all riders. We need real community engagement and participation in these temporary projects to develop better final plans, but without pilot projects people don't get to experience the benefits of Muni service freed up from traffic delays. 

SFMTA is piloting car-free and slow streets around the city, which have proven very popular. These projects are popular in large part because people get to actually experience the car-free space, rather than just theorize about it. We need the same experience and benefits for people riding Muni.

However, the Muni pilot plan is lacking full-throated support and is already getting watered down. We need your help to show SFMTA and the Board of Supervisors that riders across the city demand transit-only lanes.

Please sign our petition, and please share it with your friends - this is how we can tell city leaders that there's broad-based support for keeping Muni out of traffic!

If you have a little more time to show up for Muni priority, we have two upcoming opportunities to call in and support a network of transit-only lanes across the city:

• SFCTA: Tuesday, June 23rd at 10am, support a presentation on the Transit Recovery Plan
• SFMTA: Tuesday, June 30th at 1pm, tell SFMTA to vote yes to pilot transit-only lanes

Decision-makers often hear from many of the same people at these meetings - we need new voices to speak up! Will you join us in speaking up for transit?

Sign up below and we'll send you details and talking points.

Regional Rider Safety

Thank you to everyone who wrote in to MTC about ensuring regional safety standards and rider participation on MTC's Blue Ribbon Recovery Task Force. As a result of our collective advocacy, the Blue Ribbon Task Force is now committed to establishing comprehensive shared protocols for rider safety!

The Blue Ribbon Task Force will also help create the Transformation Action Plan for a more understandable, connected, efficient, and rider-focused system in the Bay Area. We'll continue to monitor the work of MTC and the Blue Ribbon Task Force to make sure rider needs are well represented throughout the process. When riders are safe, and feel safe, transit will recover. 

Learn more about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and regional rider safety.

Voters want Progressive Transit Funding

As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that we invest in our public transportation system, starting with progressive transportation funding. In a recent poll, 87 percent of Bay Area voters supported investments to make the region’s transportation system more affordable, accessible, and connected. When it came to revenue, progressive sources such as a personal income tax, a head tax, or a business parking tax polled higher or equal to traditional regressive sales taxes.

Results of the poll make it clear that any future regional transportation funding measure should prioritize revenue sources that do not create an additional burden on those facing serious economic hardship. San Francisco Transit Riders is part of a regional coalition of organized labor and community-based organizations working toward progressive regional funding to create a better transportation system for all.

Community Organizing for Better Muni!

Missed our community organizer training series? Want to watch it again? 

Recordings of all three sessions of our transit organizer training series are now available online. We plan to offer the entire series again, but in the meantime, you can view all three sessions using this link.

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Transit news

Muni rolls back fare increases after pressure from SF supervisors (Chronicle)
Fear of public transit got ahead of the evidence (Atlantic)
Proposed California law would fast-track environmentally sustainable transit (Chronicle)
Safe Transit Policy Brief (Green for All)
Regional Round-up of Transit Service (KQED)
Pandemic Transit is Highlighting Inequality (Washington Post)
Muni Customer Survey (SFMTA)
Muni Rail Proposal (SFMTA)