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Alexander Hirji retweeted
The bay's public transit will live to see another day. Voters in five Bay Area counties approved Prop RTM, a half-cent sales tax that would fund more than 20 transit agencies, including BART, Muni, and Caltrain.
SF voters also gave an overwhelming thumbs up to Prop H to fund Muni for 15 years.
Read more: sf.news/4eyLtHV
Alexander Hirji retweeted
Bay Area Regional Transit Measure Results as of 9:07pm in all 5 counties so far.
Officially called by the SF Chronicle!!!
sfchronicle.com/election/art…
Alexander Hirji retweeted
Moving SF - Because of the SFMTA's budget crisis, we're forced to cut 4% of Muni service this summer. These cuts are the last thing we want, but hard choices are needed to sustain the transportation services we provide. We want your feedback. Learn more⬇️ sfmta.com/blog/feb-4-hear-ab…
Alexander Hirji retweeted
Learn more about the #PotreroYard Modernization Project by joining a tour this Thursday (Dec. 19) to get a behind-the-scenes look at how a transit yard works and see why our 109-year-old yard needs to be rebuilt. Find more details & register for a tour via SFMTA.com/PotreroYard
Alexander Hirji retweeted
A new post-pandemic ridership record for #SFMuni! With over 524K average daily weekday trips, October was our highest ridership month since the start of the pandemic & the 3rd straight month with the highest recovery percentages in both weekday (75%) & weekend (92%) ridership.
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ALT Line graphs showing that Muni has recovered 75 percent of its weekday ridership and 92 percent of its weekend ridership.
Alexander Hirji retweeted
if everyone who takes muni switched to using Waymo this is what every street in sf would look like
For 20% of SF's public transit budget you could buy and run a fleet of 15,000 Waymos and let everyone ride for free. Thats enough to cover the entire ridership of SF's public bus system with much better service.
Assumptions:
-Conservative 12 year average life of the Waymo with zero value recouped at the end
- $120k purchase price per Waymo
-$8k/year/waymo in operating costs
-Finance purchase with 12 year loan at SF municipal bond rate of 4.85%
-$0 in fares!
Alexander Hirji retweeted
If you want to play a fun game, ask people in the know to describe the fiscal state of Muni.
You’ll get a sharp inhale. An “incredibly dire.” An “extremely concerning.” Maybe even a “clusterfuck” or two.
sfstandard.com/2024/11/22/mu…
Alexander Hirji retweeted
🚨 The Muni Store is LIVE! 🚨 We're thrilled to announce the launch of The Muni Store, bringing you all-new, officially branded Muni merch! Show your love for Muni with our fresh merch collections & show off your #SF pride on every ride —only at TheMuniStore.Com
Alexander Hirji retweeted
Based on Clipper data, riders have fully returned to transit, they are just taking fewer trips because of remote work.
Unique clipper cards used (note the 2024 numbers now match 2019):
ALT MTC data of unique clipper cards showing 2024 figures now matching 2019 numbers.
Good to see this 8-car @SFBART train pretty full on this 8:30 am yellow line. We need folks to get out of their cars and hop on transit again to relieve freeway blues and for the good of our fragile environment. @BevanDufty
Alexander Hirji retweeted
This is an appallingly ignorant, dangerous and vision-less view of the future. It ignores embodied carbon of building all these cars, the 25000 people killed or seriously injured on our roads every year, the social inequality this would embed...
Unlike cars, it's not yet clear what role public transport will play in decarbonisation.
Our take: buses and trains probably won't make a big dent in climate targets, but we should be worried that passengers may miss out on the big savings EVs bring.
tinyurl.com/2p4m2u89
Alexander Hirji retweeted
We're thrilled to announce a post-pandemic ridership record on #SFMuni with 521K average daily trips over September! It's the first time passing 500K average daily boardings since Feb. 2020. 📈
Ridership is 74% of pre-pandemic levels with 92% recovery on the weekends. 🤩🤩
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ALT A line graph titled September Weekday Ridership. The line takes a sharp drop in March 2020 before trending back up after January 2024. There is text that reads 521,000 Average Weekday Boardings to reflect September Muni ridership, which is where the graph ends.
Alexander Hirji retweeted
Moving SF - During this year’s Muni Heritage Weekend, we commemorated the life of one of the greatest ambassadors for Muni, vintage vehicles and the city: Mike Delia.
Click below to read about Mike and his legacy which we'll always carry in our hearts.
sfmta.com/blog/honoring-mr-b…
Alexander Hirji retweeted
The Oakland A’s were killed by greed. Do not allow the people responsible for this to spin it any other way. John Fisher did not have to move this team. Major League Baseball and its owners did not need to be complicit in it. This was a choice. A wrong one. History will sneer.