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The '''San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency''' ('''SFMTA''' or '''San Francisco MTA''') is an agency created by consolidation of the [[San Francisco Municipal Railway]] (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission.
The '''San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency''' ('''SFMTA''' or '''San Francisco MTA''') is an agency created by consolidation of the [[San Francisco Municipal Railway]] (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission.

==Overview==

The SFMTA oversees the management of streets and ground transportation in the City and County of San Francisco. It handles rail, bus, and other public transportation under its Transit division (the San Francisco Municipal Railway, also known as "Muni"). The SFMTA handles over 700,000 weekday boardings on its public transit services and serves 90 routes.<ref name="fact-sheet">https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/reports/2015-transportation-fact-sheet (p. 5 of linked pdf)</ref>

Through its Sustainable Streets division, the SFMTA is responsible for the planning and design of the streets of San Francisco. This includes responsibility over automobile parking, [[bicycle infrastructure]], bus and transit lanes, sidewalks and so on.

The SFMTA's Taxi and Accessible Service division oversees the regulation of taxis and [[paratransit]] services in the city.


==History==
==History==
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In November 2016, The SFMTA was hit by [[hacker]]s, using [[ransomware]], demanding $70,000 in [[bitcoin]]s, with fare machines reading “OUT OF SERVICE”, resulting in passengers riding for free.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/11/28/san-franciscos-light-rail-system-was-held-hostage-by-hackers/|title=San Francisco’s light-rail system was held hostage by hackers|first=Andrea|last=Peterson|date=November 29, 2016|publisher=|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>
In November 2016, The SFMTA was hit by [[hacker]]s, using [[ransomware]], demanding $70,000 in [[bitcoin]]s, with fare machines reading “OUT OF SERVICE”, resulting in passengers riding for free.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/11/28/san-franciscos-light-rail-system-was-held-hostage-by-hackers/|title=San Francisco’s light-rail system was held hostage by hackers|first=Andrea|last=Peterson|date=November 29, 2016|publisher=|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>

==Muni Transit statistics==
The SFMTA Transportation Fact Sheet<ref>https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/reports/2015-transportation-fact-sheet (p. 5 of linked pdf)</ref> (2016) gives the following statistics about SFMTA service and equipment:

{|
|-
! Statistic
! Number
|-
| Avg. Weekday Boardings (FY 2009)
|700,000
|-
| Regular Weekday Transit Routes
|90
|-
Muni Ticket Prices:
| Regular Adult Fare paid by Farebox or Limited-Use Ticket)
| $2.75
|Regular Adult Fare paid by Clipper or MuniMobile
|$2.50
|Youth Fare (5-18) paid by Farebox or Limited-Use Ticket
|$1.35
|Youth Fare (5-18) paid by Clipper or MuniMobile
|$1.25
|Senior Fare* (65+), Disabled*, Medicare Recipient* paid by Farebox or Limited Use Ticket
|$1.35
|Senior Fare* (65+), Disabled*, Medicare Recipient* paid by Clipper or MuniMobile
|$1.25
|Children Ages 4 and under ride FREE!
|*indicates that valid ID is required
|-
| One-Way Cable Car Fare
| $7.00
|1-Day Visitor Passport (Unlimited rides on Muni cars only)
|$21.00
|3-Day Visitor Passport (Unlimited rides on Muni cars only)
|$32.00
|7-Day Visitor Passport (Unlimited rides on Muni cars only)
|$42.00
|
|Monthly Muni Passes
| Regular Adult (Muni ONLY)
| $75.00
|-
| Muni/BART (within San Francisco ONLY)
|$94.00
|Youth (5-18), Senior (65+), People with Disabilities, Medicare
|$38.00
|Adult Lifeline (Low Income)
|$38.00
|Children Ages 4 and under ride FREE!
|-
| Priority Bus Lanes
|{{convert|15.6|mi}}
|-
| No. of Diesel Buses
| 526
|-
| No. of Cable Cars
|40
|-
| No. of Historic Streetcars
|46
|-
| No. of Light Rail Vehicles (Subway)

| 151
|-
| No. of Trolley Buses
|333
|-
| Total Service Vehicles
|1096
|-
| Single Track – Light Rail Vehicles (gauge {{convert|4|ft|8.5|in|cm|0}})
|{{convert|71.5|mi}}
|-
| Cable Car (gauge {{convert|3|ft|6|in|cm|0}})
|{{convert|8.8|mi}}
|}


==SFMTA Board of Directors==
==SFMTA Board of Directors==

Revision as of 18:31, 9 June 2018

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
Agency overview
Formed1999
Preceding agencies
  • San Francisco Public Transportation Commission
  • San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic
JurisdictionCity and County of San Francisco
Headquarters1 South Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California
Employees4,800[1]
Annual budgetOperating: $1.063B (2016-2017)
Capital: $829M (2016-2017)[2]
Agency executives
  • Edward D. Reiskin, Director of Transportation
  • Cheryl Brinkman, Chairman, SFMTA Board of Directors
Child agency
Websitehttp://www.sfmta.com

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA or San Francisco MTA) is an agency created by consolidation of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission.

Overview

The SFMTA oversees the management of streets and ground transportation in the City and County of San Francisco. It handles rail, bus, and other public transportation under its Transit division (the San Francisco Municipal Railway, also known as "Muni"). The SFMTA handles over 700,000 weekday boardings on its public transit services and serves 90 routes.[3]

Through its Sustainable Streets division, the SFMTA is responsible for the planning and design of the streets of San Francisco. This includes responsibility over automobile parking, bicycle infrastructure, bus and transit lanes, sidewalks and so on.

The SFMTA's Taxi and Accessible Service division oversees the regulation of taxis and paratransit services in the city.

History

SFMTA was established by the passage of Proposition E in November 1999, a measure which amended San Francisco's charter and established the semi-independent agency to combine and run Muni and DPT. The measure, promoted by the transit riders' group Rescue Muni, among others, established service standards for the agency and made a number of changes to the laws governing it.

Prior to the passage of Proposition E, the Muni was governed by the Public Transportation Commission and the Department of Parking and Traffic was governed by the Parking and Traffic Commission. Both bodies were dissolved upon the full implementation of Proposition E.

Proposition E established a seven-member board to govern the agency, its members appointed for fixed, staggered terms by the Mayor of San Francisco and subject to confirmation by the city and county's Board of Supervisors. Board members are limited to three terms.[4] The SFMTA Board of Directors is responsible for, among other things, hiring the agency's executive director.

At its inception, the SFMTA's Director of Transportation (a position referred to, at various times, in practice and by SFMTA Board policy, as "Executive Director" or "Executive Director/CEO") was Michael T. Burns. On July 15, 2005 he left the SFMTA for a position with Santa Clara VTA. Deputy Executive Director Stuart Sunshine, a former aide to Mayor Frank Jordan and Mayor Willie Brown, and a former head of the Department of Parking and Traffic, served as acting executive director until January 17, 2006, when Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., previously the general manager and CEO of MARTA in Atlanta, took over as the new executive director. On June 15, 2011, the SFMTA announced Ford would be leaving the agency effective June 30, 2011; shortly thereafter the SFMTA Board decided that Director of Administration, Taxis, and Accessible Services Debra A. Johnson would take over as acting executive director until a permanent replacement was selected by the SFMTA Board.[5][6] The board selected Edward D. Reiskin, the head of the San Francisco Department of Public Works, as the permanent executive director, effective August 15, 2011.[7]

The first chair of the SFMTA Board of Directors was H. Welton Flynn; he was succeeded by Cleopatra Vaughns. When Vaughns left the board, James McCray, Jr. was elected chairman. Like two of his then-colleagues, McCray previously served on the Parking and Traffic Commission, which was abolished when the department merged into the SFMTA. A majority of the current SFMTA Board was first appointed by Mayor Ed Lee; Tom Nolan, Cheryl Brinkman, and Malcolm Heinecke were initially appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom and later reappointed by Lee.[8][9]

Only once has the Board of Supervisors exercised its prerogative, under the charter, to reject the mayor's appointees to the SFMTA Board, when then-Mayor Newsom appointed Hunter Stern to a vacant seat. The Board of Supervisors rejected Stern by a 7–4 vote on September 27, 2005. Stern was an official with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Proposition E also established a 15-member SFMTA Citizens Advisory Council which must review the agency's budget and which makes recommendations on agency policy. The mayor appoints four members of the SFMTA Citizens Advisory Council and each member of the Board of Supervisors appoints one.

Proposition E allowed for the SFMTA to take over the functions of the Taxicab Commission. In 2009, the agency did so, as a result of legislation passed by the Board of Supervisors and signed by the mayor.

In November 2005, the voters of San Francisco rejected, by a margin of 35%–65%, a ballot measure which would have allowed the Board of Supervisors to appoint three of the SFMTA Board's seven members. In November 2007, the voters of San Francisco approved, by a vote of 55% to 45%, a charter amendment further expanding the power of the SFMTA Board, granting the agency more flexibility in its labor relations, providing more funding for the agency, and imposing new limits on downtown parking.[10] In November 2016 San Francisco voters rejected by 45%–55%[11] a second ballot measure that would have split appointments between the mayor and the Board of Supervisors. The measure would also have made it easier for the supervisors to reject the SFMTA budget.[12]

In November 2016, The SFMTA was hit by hackers, using ransomware, demanding $70,000 in bitcoins, with fare machines reading “OUT OF SERVICE”, resulting in passengers riding for free.[13]

SFMTA Board of Directors

  • Cheryl Brinkman, Chairman
  • Malcolm Heinecke, Vice Chairman
  • Cristina Rubke
  • Gwyneth Borden
  • Lee Hsu
  • Art Torres

(1 vacancy)

Board Secretary: Roberta Boomer

  • Policy and Governance Committee: Brinkman, Borden (1 vacancy)

SFMTA Citizens Advisory Council

  • Daniel Weaver, Chair
  • Frank Zepeda, Vice Chair
  • Joan Downey
  • Daniel Murphy
  • Dorris Vincent
  • Susan Vaughan
  • Mark Ballew
  • Stephen L. Taber
  • Stephen Cornell
  • Neil Ballard
  • Cesar Magdaleno
  • Barbara Bocci
  • Michael Eshleman
  • Jarie Bolander

(1 vacancy)

Council Secretary: Keka Robinson-Luqman

  • Engineering, Maintenance, & Safety Committee: Zepeda (chair), Vincent
  • Finance & Administration Committee: Murphy, Vaughan, Ballard
  • Operations & Customer Service Committee: Ballew (chair), Downey, Murphy

List of Directors of Transportation* of the SFMTA

Name Service Began Service Ended
Michael T. Burns March 7, 2000 July 15, 2005
Stuart Sunshine (acting) July 15, 2005 January 17, 2006
Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr. January 17, 2006 June 30, 2011
Debra A. Johnson (acting) July 1, 2011 August 14, 2011
Edward D. Reiskin August 15, 2011

* The city charter refers to this office as the Director of Transportation, though the alternate title "Executive Director" was more commonly used during the first decade of the agency's existence. In February 2006, the MTA Board adopted a resolution adding "CEO" to the title.[14] When Edward D. Reiskin took office in 2011, he opted to use only the position's official title.[15]

List of Chairmen* of the SFMTA Board of Directors

Name Service Began Service Ended
H. Welton Flynn March 7, 2000 January 20, 2004
Cleopatra Vaughns January 20, 2004 May 2, 2006
Michael Kasolas (acting) May 2, 2006 May 16, 2006
James McCray, Jr. May 16, 2006 February 3, 2009
Tom Nolan February 3, 2009 January 17, 2017
Cheryl Brinkman January 17, 2017

* Although the city charter specifies that the SFMTA Board shall have a "chair",[16] Flynn, Vaughns, McCray, Nolan, and Brinkman[17] all opted for the style "chairman".

List of Vice Chairmen of the SFMTA Board of Directors

Name Service Began Service Ended
Enid Ng Lim March 7, 2000 July 1, 2003
vacant July 1, 2003 January 20, 2004
Michael Kasolas January 20, 2004 March 1, 2007
vacant March 1, 2007 April 3, 2007
Tom Nolan April 3, 2007 February 3, 2009
James McCray, Jr. February 3, 2009 April 30, 2010
vacant April 30, 2010 May 4, 2010
Jerry Lee May 4, 2010 January 17, 2012
Cheryl Brinkman January 17, 2012 January 17, 2017
Malcolm Heinecke January 17, 2017

List of Chairs of the SFMTA Citizens Advisory Council

Name Service Began Service Ended
David Pilpel (acting) July 6, 2000 August 3, 2000
Linton H. Stables III August 3, 2000 July 11, 2002
Daniel Murphy July 11, 2002 July 11, 2013
Daniel Weaver July 11, 2013

References

  1. ^ Padilla, Cristina (August 16, 2017). "Jobs with the SFMTA".
  2. ^ San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (2017). "Streets for All Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Annual Report" (PDF). Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  3. ^ https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/reports/2015-transportation-fact-sheet (p. 5 of linked pdf)
  4. ^ "JUNE 18TH DRAFT". www.rescuemuni.org.
  5. ^ "Debra Johnson picked to serve as Muni's acting chief". June 28, 2011.
  6. ^ fpadmin (January 18, 2013). "Ed Reiskin".
  7. ^ "Ed Reiskin, new transit chief,".
  8. ^ http://www.sfmta.com/cms/chome/bordindx.htm#aboutsfmtaboard
  9. ^ "Mayor Lee Swears in New Appointments and Reappointments to City Boards and Commissions - Office of the Mayor". www.sfmayor.org.
  10. ^ "November 2007 Proposition A" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 15, 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "SFDOE Results". www.sfelections.org.
  12. ^ "Information pamphlet" (PDF). sfgov.org.
  13. ^ Peterson, Andrea (November 29, 2016). "San Francisco's light-rail system was held hostage by hackers" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  14. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 27, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ [1][dead link‍]
  16. ^ "American Legal Publishing - Online Library". library.amlegal.com.
  17. ^ fpadmin (March 28, 2013). "Cheryl Brinkman".

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