Program Advisory: SFMTA as Political Football
Up now at The Voice of San Francisco: redesigning the city's streets to save lives takes too long and has too many obstacles. Meanwhile, the agency responsible is facing an existential crisis.
In 2014, the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees the city’s Muni transit, streets, and parking, set a goal to eliminate traffic deaths in 10 years. It’s now 2024, and the agency has failed to do that. Traffic safety is now the most visible of several challenges providing a rough ride for the agency, coinciding with the stewardship of its current director of transportation, Jeffrey Tumlin.
Now in the premiere issue of The Voice of San Francisco!
https://thevoicesf.org/2024/04/13/vision-zero-lays-out-a-rocky-road-for-transit-agency/