| Ride the Vote! Tonight: Environmental Justice Town Hall, D1 Candidates Regional Rider Forum Transit Week: Rider First Awards Show |
| |
|
| It's a cliche but it's true: public transit needs you now more than ever. Check out our Ride The Vote 2020 Guide for information on San Francisco Supervisor candidates, BART District 9 candidates, and two ballot measures that will generate millions to fund needed transit service. Vote YES on RR and Prop 15! Measure RR will save Caltrain, and Proposition 15 will fund local counties to provide needed services - including public transit! |
| |
|
| Phone/Text Bank For RR Sunday and Tuesday |
| We need to get Measure RR passed to save Caltrain, and to make sure Caltrain can actually roll out the equity plans for service and fares that have been in the works for a few years. To get it passed, we need to reach as many voters as possible. Let's do it together! |
|
|
| Sunday, October 18, 5:00PM: Phone bank for RR with our new Executive Director, Mark, in a friendly Zoom setting. BYO pizza and beer, and share the joys of reaching voters together! Tuesday, October 20, 5:00 PM: Can't make Sunday? Join the team Tuesday with Zack. Phone and text-banking over Zoom is a great way to keep the social aspect of getting out the vote. |
| |
|
| Environmental Justice Town Hall With D1 Candidates |
| Join us for a special town hall on environmental justice issues in district 1 and citywide. The panel will include candidates in the race for SF District 1 Board of Supervisors Marjan Philhour, Veronica Shinzato, and Connie Chan. We're excited to collaborate with the Citizens' Climate Lobby San Francisco (CCL-SF), XR SF Bay, Urban Environmentalists, and Climate Health Now to bring you this important discussion. |
|
|
| | |
|
| Thursday: Regional Rider Forum |
| How have all the service changes impacted your transit use? Do you need to make connections between agencies? Come talk with other riders and share your experiences at our 2nd Bay Area Transit Rider Forum, focusing on service cuts and how they've impacted connectivity. Your voice at this forum will inform policymakers, transit professionals, and advocates about the difficulties of riding on transit. Together we can lay the groundwork for better service in the future. Thursday, October 16, 6:00PM Live interpretation in Spanish will be provided. This rider forum is proudly co-hosted by: Seamless Bay Area, San Francisco Transit Riders, Friends of Caltrain, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County, Youth Leadership Institute, and East Bay Transit Riders Union |
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | If you missed the live show with the live chat, you can still kick back, relax, and check out our Rider First Awards & 10th anniversary celebration! Meet some of the people who made us what we are today, learn about challenges and visions for the future, and the amazing people who are working every day to make Muni better for all riders. As Muni Operator Shaun says, "we are the veins of San Francisco, you are the heart." |
| | For all their hard work and passion for awesome transit, we thank and congratulate: - Myra Phillips and the Car Cleaning Team. Myra led the growth of the team from 11 to almost 130 people making sure our buses are clean every run.
- Dickson Yee and the Disaster Service Workers, for making sure operators have their PPE kits.
- Felix Castillo, for community building and team leadership in getting our Masks for Muni to the operators who needed them.
- Sam Eversly, Perry Poole, Johnny Siu, Celso Abueg, and all the Land Ambassadors. Normally helping tourists on the Cable Cars, this team is now helping locals navigate service changes during this emergency.
- Shaun Reeves, for amazing and selfless service to primarily unhoused People Under Investigation (PUIs) for possible COVID-19 infection during the early days of the emergency.
- Enrique Aguilar, Public Information Officer. Enrique is developing video communications that clearly convey complex transit issues, even across language barriers.
- Adee Horn, Peer Resources Coordinator, for helping students link social justice with transit access, and develop their leadership around access and mobility.
- Jason Lee, Program Manager for the NextMuni 2.0 system and signage. He's incorporated rider feedback to make a better system, and ushered it through approvals during a difficult budget time.
Thank you all for your efforts to make Muni awesome! |
| | Thank you to our sponsors!  |
|
|
|
San Francisco Transit Riders
P.O. Box 193341, | San Francisco, California 94119 [email protected] |
| | |
|
| |
|
|
