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"content": "\u003cp>On July 21, Janarden Dangi was working a dinner shift at Nepa Indian Cuisine, a restaurant near Divisadero and Fell streets in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood, when he saw flashing police lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, he joined a small crowd looking out at a gruesome scene — a crash between two pedestrians and a rider of an electric-powered vehicle — near the intersection around 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangi saw a “white-haired” man lying on the pavement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was half covered by his helmet,” Dangi said. “It was really bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its initial report, San Francisco Police stated that the person, identified as Matthias Mederer, 64, was riding an e-bike at the time of the crash, which also injured two people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca 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doesn’t require a special license to operate — or something else?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following multiple fatalities caused by electric devices in San Francisco, traffic safety advocates are pointing to a need for stronger regulation and classification for electric-powered or motorized modes of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes, said Christopher White, executive director of the San Francisco Bike Coalition, can be life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure that the public has the information that is true and accurate,” White said. “That is what should be guiding policies that develop to keep people safer on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent statement to KQED on Aug. 8, SFPD again reiterated that the crash involved an e-bike.[aside postID=news_12049286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-947735006-1020x682.jpg']The San Francisco Bike Coalition, however, said that based on eyewitness accounts and videos \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1m7mqdq/ebike_barrels_into_pedestrian_at_fell_and/\">circulating\u003c/a> online, they believe Mederer was riding a more powerful, faster vehicle, most likely an e-moped, which requires a motorcycle license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangi also told KQED that the vehicle in question appeared to be “a modified moped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a proper motorbike,” Dangi said. “It was modified with a big sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangi added that the corner is often busy and that “people have to be very careful in this intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tragedy unfolded against the backdrop of ongoing conversations among state legislators on the prevalence of e-bikes and motorized scooters, and a possible need for increased safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, the term “e-bike” can only apply to three classes of electric bicycles with pedals that are capped at 28 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said they’re commonly confused and misreported as e-mopeds and e-motorbikes: vehicles that go way above that speed and require a motorcycle license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can propagate narratives in the minds of the public that are not true about the safety or lack of safety of different devices,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White pointed to a fatal collision on Market and Sixth streets just days before the fatal accident on July 21 as a case study: an elderly pedestrian was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049286/77-year-old-pedestrian-dies-in-sf-after-being-struck-by-an-electric-scooter\">struck by an electric scooter\u003c/a> on July 18 while he crossed the intersection, later succumbing to his injuries at a local hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-03-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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The transit agency is currently projecting annual deficits above \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037653/sfmta-launches-major-reorganization-to-address-mounting-budget-shortfall\">$300 million \u003c/a>beginning in 2026, fueled by low post-pandemic ridership and decreased funding sources, as it makes cuts to staff and services.[aside postID=arts_13978193 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/0-2000x1333.jpg']The funky additions to the fleet may be a part of a push to reach younger residents, a strategy that has included the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://themunistore.com/\">merchandise\u003c/a> with its iconic worm logo earlier this year and partnering with the \u003ca href=\"https://shop.sfcityfc.com/collections/jerseys\">SF City FC soccer club\u003c/a> on a new line of jerseys with the signature emblem across the chest. 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The practice makes people crossing the street more visible to drivers — reducing the risk of someone getting hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their enforcement, San Francisco transportation officials have begun painting curbs red to indicate where parking is prohibited, with a plan to daylight all intersections by the end of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the city began enforcing the law earlier this year, some parents have reported seeing painted curbs extending to just 10 feet or less, even in areas considered high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Nossokoff, a mother of two who lives in the Inner Richmond, said she reached out to the city after she noticed that four of the eight no-parking “buffers” near her child’s elementary school were of insufficient length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A red curb designates a no-parking area at the intersection of Sutter and Leavenworth Streets in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a brief back-and-forth with the city’s traffic engineer, which Nossokoff said “was fruitless,” she and other parents formally requested that the SFMTA conduct a review of the curbs to determine whether they are in compliance with the daylighting law and next steps if they are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nossokoff, officials with the transportation agency said they would get the intersections under compliance, but made no mention of addressing curbs in other parts of the city. No changes have been made to the curbs near the school either, she said.[aside postID=news_12045959 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-06-BL_qed.jpg']“Nobody appears to be doing anything, and that’s where my frustration as a parent comes from,” Nossokoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SFMTA said daylighting lengths throughout the city’s high-collision areas vary based on engineering reviews that show how much space is necessary to maintain street safety. To be more consistent and “in compliance with state law,” the agency said it will move forward with 20-foot daylighting zones throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under AB 314, local authorities are allowed to establish a different distance for the approach if the change is marked by paint or a sign. An ordinance must also be passed that explicitly includes data proving that the shortened distance is justified by existing safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other community members have also said they have expressed concerns about the curbs to the SFMTA, and the dangers created by parked cars near intersections. Danielle Jezienicki, a mother of three who also lives in the Richmond, was waiting for her husband to pick their son up from school when she received news that the 6-year-old was involved in a life-threatening crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash, which happened in October, took place only 100 feet away from her child’s elementary school. The boy’s father had just picked him up on the family’s bike when a distracted driver struck the pair at the intersection of 7th Avenue and Balboa Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025207\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-1536x1064.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A curb at the intersection of 19th Avenue and Balboa Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The curb had previously been painted red by an unknown source, but was soon repainted by the city (as shown here). \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The curb where Jezienicki’s son was hit is one of the buffer zones that is painted to less than 20 feet, Nossokoff noted. The intersection is also part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041243/san-franciscos-streets-still-deadly-advocates-want-lurie-to-do-more\">San Francisco’s high-injury network\u003c/a>, a collection of streets with the highest percentage of serious injuries and fatalities caused by car crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jezienicki said she doesn’t know whether daylighting law enforcement would have prevented the driver from veering into her husband and son, but noted that it could have given the driver more time to see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city needs to enforce laws that protect pedestrians and cyclists, especially in areas that are already considered high-collision corridors, such as Balboa Street, she said.[aside postID=news_12041243 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“Daylighting costs almost nothing,” Jezienicki said. “Logic would lead you to believe that if they just implemented safety measures they know would work, you can reduce accidents and fatalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our son would have been killed if he wasn’t wearing a helmet,” she continued. “It’s very frustrating to hear that they can’t enforce things that have no reason not to be enforced, especially in school districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nossokoff said she and other parents are demanding that the Board of Supervisors step in if the SFMTA fails to fix the compliance issues with the curbs. She also wants to see education campaigns teaching residents and drivers about the daylighting law and why it’s important for pedestrian safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Jezienicki’s child has made what appears to be a full recovery, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her family has not used the bike since the crash, she said, and she feels paranoid every time she crosses the street. Jezienicki said she also struggles with crossing the intersection at Balboa Street when she picks her son up or drops him off at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just an unpleasant reminder of the worst day and moments of my life,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haunted by reminders of the accident, Jezienicki is now working with groups such as Walk San Francisco to advocate for safer streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the city began enforcing the law earlier this year, some parents have reported seeing painted curbs extending to just 10 feet or less, even in areas considered high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Nossokoff, a mother of two who lives in the Inner Richmond, said she reached out to the city after she noticed that four of the eight no-parking “buffers” near her child’s elementary school were of insufficient length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A red curb designates a no-parking area at the intersection of Sutter and Leavenworth Streets in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a brief back-and-forth with the city’s traffic engineer, which Nossokoff said “was fruitless,” she and other parents formally requested that the SFMTA conduct a review of the curbs to determine whether they are in compliance with the daylighting law and next steps if they are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nossokoff, officials with the transportation agency said they would get the intersections under compliance, but made no mention of addressing curbs in other parts of the city. No changes have been made to the curbs near the school either, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Nobody appears to be doing anything, and that’s where my frustration as a parent comes from,” Nossokoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SFMTA said daylighting lengths throughout the city’s high-collision areas vary based on engineering reviews that show how much space is necessary to maintain street safety. To be more consistent and “in compliance with state law,” the agency said it will move forward with 20-foot daylighting zones throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under AB 314, local authorities are allowed to establish a different distance for the approach if the change is marked by paint or a sign. An ordinance must also be passed that explicitly includes data proving that the shortened distance is justified by existing safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other community members have also said they have expressed concerns about the curbs to the SFMTA, and the dangers created by parked cars near intersections. Danielle Jezienicki, a mother of three who also lives in the Richmond, was waiting for her husband to pick their son up from school when she received news that the 6-year-old was involved in a life-threatening crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash, which happened in October, took place only 100 feet away from her child’s elementary school. The boy’s father had just picked him up on the family’s bike when a distracted driver struck the pair at the intersection of 7th Avenue and Balboa Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025207\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_5889-2-scaled-e1738366873752-1536x1064.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A curb at the intersection of 19th Avenue and Balboa Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The curb had previously been painted red by an unknown source, but was soon repainted by the city (as shown here). \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The curb where Jezienicki’s son was hit is one of the buffer zones that is painted to less than 20 feet, Nossokoff noted. The intersection is also part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041243/san-franciscos-streets-still-deadly-advocates-want-lurie-to-do-more\">San Francisco’s high-injury network\u003c/a>, a collection of streets with the highest percentage of serious injuries and fatalities caused by car crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jezienicki said she doesn’t know whether daylighting law enforcement would have prevented the driver from veering into her husband and son, but noted that it could have given the driver more time to see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city needs to enforce laws that protect pedestrians and cyclists, especially in areas that are already considered high-collision corridors, such as Balboa Street, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>An \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">El Tecolote investigation\u003c/a> reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, dozens of working-class families living in RVs along Winston Drive built a stable, self-reliant community on San Francisco’s west side. But in 2024, new city policies tore it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em> investigation — based on thousands of internal emails, city records and firsthand accounts — reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents even when safe alternatives didn’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind closed doors, staff warned the crackdown would likely fail and destabilize vulnerable residents. But officials moved forward anyway — citing political pressure, optics and infrastructure plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg']“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area transportation officials, advocates and elected leaders are expressing concern about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">budget proposal\u003c/a>, which they say could deepen the imminent financial crisis facing transit operators across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041217/cap-and-trade-debate-includes-controversial-proposals\">Newsom’s move\u003c/a> to shift $1.5 billion in revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade climate program to Cal Fire, while omitting funds that had been committed to both day-to-day transit operations and longer-term capital projects under previous budget agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, sounded the alarm on the proposal in \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/scottwiener.bsky.social/post/3lps2m3ezec2h\">a social media post\u003c/a>, warning that the state’s biggest transit agencies, including BART and San Francisco’s Muni, could each be big losers if the governor’s proposal stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Diverting this money will take hundreds of millions of dollars away from Muni, hundreds of millions of dollars away from BART, and it’ll take money away from transit systems around the state,” Wiener said in an interview. “And that is going in the opposite direction that we’ve been trying to go, which is to increase support for transit so that we avoid service cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Transit Association estimates $3 billion in transit funding could be at risk over the next five years. Most of that would have gone to a range of projects to improve service over the long run, including a program that pays for agencies to purchase zero-emission vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through Montgomery BART Station in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The potential loss of funds comes as the Bay Area’s largest transit agencies face deficits that, if unsolved, will result in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039394/last-ditch-effort-fund-bay-area-transit-tries-pick-up-support\">major service cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis presented to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission this week reported that five of the agencies — BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and Golden Gate Transit — face a combined $3.7 billion deficit between mid-2026 and mid-2030. Muni and BART account for the majority of that total, each forecasting total deficits of more than $1.4 billion during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deficits are a legacy of the pandemic, which triggered steep declines in ridership and fare revenue, and also lowered the sales tax revenue that flows to many transit operators.[aside postID=news_12040951 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-028_qed-1020x680.jpg']As part of a budget presentation last week, BART finance official Pamela Herhold said the cuts in Newsom’s proposal could involve funds that the agency is counting on to balance its budget in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART had been planning to use $350 million of the capital funding that’s now at risk for its core-capacity project. That’s a program that’s been years in the making to modernize its train-control system and significantly increase the frequency of trains. An additional $375 million that could now disappear had been committed to the BART-VTA extension through downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, a lot is up in the air right now, and we’re actively monitoring the situation,” Herhold said. “It’s concerning, but it’s not a done deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, serving this session as chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said, “There’s a lot of support for reversing this cut” through negotiations with the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s latest budget proposal also ignored \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026627/with-bay-area-transit-crisis-looming-lawmaker-pushes-for-urgent-state-funding\">an urgent request\u003c/a> from Bay Area lawmakers for an additional $2 billion in emergency funding that could be used by transit agencies facing hundreds of millions of dollars in deficits beginning in mid-2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Scott Wiener speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said that the proposal isn’t dead, though getting emergency aid will be a struggle given the state’s need to address crises in health care, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041926/newsom-local-leaders-scuffle-over-homelessness-solutions\">housing and homelessness\u003c/a> funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal to cancel transit funding from the cap-and-trade program “makes it more challenging, because now you’re digging out of a hole, because that was a cut to existing funds,” Wiener said. “But there is definitely a lot of support in California for making sure that we have strong public transportation systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a request for comment from the governor’s office, California State Transportation Agency spokesperson Kimberly Erickson acknowledged challenges facing transit and said the administration is committed to negotiations with the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transit ridership in California has been declining for many years, and the lingering impacts of COVID-19 have only heightened this challenge,” Erickson said in an emailed statement. “Despite substantial investments, increasing ridership remains the most pressing challenge for many transit agencies across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the goal of negotiations over cap-and-trade resources “is to align limited funding with shared statewide priorities while considering regional differences in need and fiscal capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature faces a June 15 deadline to approve a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area transportation officials, advocates and elected leaders are expressing concern about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">budget proposal\u003c/a>, which they say could deepen the imminent financial crisis facing transit operators across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041217/cap-and-trade-debate-includes-controversial-proposals\">Newsom’s move\u003c/a> to shift $1.5 billion in revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade climate program to Cal Fire, while omitting funds that had been committed to both day-to-day transit operations and longer-term capital projects under previous budget agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, sounded the alarm on the proposal in \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/scottwiener.bsky.social/post/3lps2m3ezec2h\">a social media post\u003c/a>, warning that the state’s biggest transit agencies, including BART and San Francisco’s Muni, could each be big losers if the governor’s proposal stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Diverting this money will take hundreds of millions of dollars away from Muni, hundreds of millions of dollars away from BART, and it’ll take money away from transit systems around the state,” Wiener said in an interview. “And that is going in the opposite direction that we’ve been trying to go, which is to increase support for transit so that we avoid service cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Transit Association estimates $3 billion in transit funding could be at risk over the next five years. Most of that would have gone to a range of projects to improve service over the long run, including a program that pays for agencies to purchase zero-emission vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through Montgomery BART Station in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The potential loss of funds comes as the Bay Area’s largest transit agencies face deficits that, if unsolved, will result in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039394/last-ditch-effort-fund-bay-area-transit-tries-pick-up-support\">major service cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis presented to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission this week reported that five of the agencies — BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and Golden Gate Transit — face a combined $3.7 billion deficit between mid-2026 and mid-2030. Muni and BART account for the majority of that total, each forecasting total deficits of more than $1.4 billion during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deficits are a legacy of the pandemic, which triggered steep declines in ridership and fare revenue, and also lowered the sales tax revenue that flows to many transit operators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As part of a budget presentation last week, BART finance official Pamela Herhold said the cuts in Newsom’s proposal could involve funds that the agency is counting on to balance its budget in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART had been planning to use $350 million of the capital funding that’s now at risk for its core-capacity project. That’s a program that’s been years in the making to modernize its train-control system and significantly increase the frequency of trains. An additional $375 million that could now disappear had been committed to the BART-VTA extension through downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, a lot is up in the air right now, and we’re actively monitoring the situation,” Herhold said. “It’s concerning, but it’s not a done deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, serving this session as chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said, “There’s a lot of support for reversing this cut” through negotiations with the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s latest budget proposal also ignored \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026627/with-bay-area-transit-crisis-looming-lawmaker-pushes-for-urgent-state-funding\">an urgent request\u003c/a> from Bay Area lawmakers for an additional $2 billion in emergency funding that could be used by transit agencies facing hundreds of millions of dollars in deficits beginning in mid-2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-04-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Scott Wiener speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said that the proposal isn’t dead, though getting emergency aid will be a struggle given the state’s need to address crises in health care, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041926/newsom-local-leaders-scuffle-over-homelessness-solutions\">housing and homelessness\u003c/a> funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal to cancel transit funding from the cap-and-trade program “makes it more challenging, because now you’re digging out of a hole, because that was a cut to existing funds,” Wiener said. “But there is definitely a lot of support in California for making sure that we have strong public transportation systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a request for comment from the governor’s office, California State Transportation Agency spokesperson Kimberly Erickson acknowledged challenges facing transit and said the administration is committed to negotiations with the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transit ridership in California has been declining for many years, and the lingering impacts of COVID-19 have only heightened this challenge,” Erickson said in an emailed statement. “Despite substantial investments, increasing ridership remains the most pressing challenge for many transit agencies across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the goal of negotiations over cap-and-trade resources “is to align limited funding with shared statewide priorities while considering regional differences in need and fiscal capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature faces a June 15 deadline to approve a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than seven years ago, Christian Rose was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cycling\">cycling\u003c/a> down his usual route in San Francisco’s Richmond District on his way to a tune-up when the day he had long feared became a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A car was barreling toward the bike lane on Arguello Boulevard. He yelled out, but the car hit him and sent him flying over its hood. His bike crushed and helmet scraped from the gravelly street, he landed on his right hip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose was freshly through his emergency medicine residency at UCSF, and he said he had an immediate and sinking feeling that the hip that took the brunt of the impact was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being an emergency physician training at San Francisco General, seeing tons of bike crashes, pedestrian crashes, car crashes, I used to leave those shifts sometimes joking … ‘Hopefully, today is not the day that I’ll come back to work before I’m supposed to,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, just at the time I remember the sort of collapsing world of being like, ‘I expected this, I knew this would come at some point, and I just can’t believe it’s today,’” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intersection where Rose was hit is on San Francisco’s high-injury network, which indicates streets that have the highest percentage of severe and fatal injuries from vehicle crashes, and where the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it should invest the majority of its resources to prevent future crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose’s crash occurred three years into the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vision-zero\">Vision Zero campaign\u003c/a>, a 10-year effort to end traffic fatalities by making changes to infrastructure and driver behavior. That campaign officially ended in December, far from its goal. Now, transportation safety advocates are pushing Mayor Daniel Lurie and city officials to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic safety advocates from Walk San Francisco, Families for Safe Streets and the Vision Zero Coalition gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eight years into Vision Zero, another cyclist was struck and killed less than half a mile north of where Rose was on Arguello Boulevard, at another intersection marked high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both crashes, the intersection at Cornwall and Arguello, Rose said, looked exactly the same when he rode past it Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed on the entire section,” he told KQED. “There’s only construction going on right now on the upper section, and the lower section hasn’t had any adjustments made either. There are no new traffic signs or anything in that intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A commitment to ending traffic deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-Supervisor Norman Yee, who had survived a crash himself in 2006, shepherded Vision Zero into San Francisco, promising to coordinate city agencies around creating safer intersections for pedestrians and cyclists, and redesigning city streets to curb crash deaths.[aside postID=news_12039914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The policy’s first action plan the following year had lofty goals: implement safety treatments along at least 13 miles of roadways on the high-injury network each year; assess which speed humps or signage slowed traffic and prevented accidents most effectively; and slow road speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vision Zero was introduced in San Francisco, the city struggled with an average of about 20 pedestrian deaths and hundreds of critical injuries due to vehicle crashes each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The result of this collaborative, citywide effort will be safer, more livable streets as we work to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024,” the plan reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite high hopes, when the policy sunsetted in December, it came at the end of one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">deadliest years yet\u003c/a> on San Francisco streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vision Zero expires with little to celebrate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The biggest tragedy is that 2024 was the worst year for traffic violence, and particularly for pedestrians, it was the worst year for traffic deaths for pedestrians since 2007,” said Jodie Medeiros, the executive director of pedestrian advocacy group Walk SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the nonprofit, 24 people were killed in crashes while walking last year, including a family of four who were waiting at a bus stop when they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992918/san-francisco-driver-78-arrested-months-after-crash-that-killed-family-of-4\">hit by a vehicle\u003c/a> that veered off the road in West Portal and onto the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, 42 people died in vehicle crashes while walking, biking and driving in 2024, and hundreds were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Vc9hv/8/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros said that since 2014, the city has made progress redesigning streets and adding traffic-slowing measures, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032036/sf-speed-cameras-first-in-state-turn-on-today-heres-where-they-are\">speed cameras\u003c/a> that began to go online last month. But one of the reasons she believes San Francisco is continuing to have a high number of injuries and deaths is because policy change has moved at a glacial pace, and agencies aren’t collaborating the way they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to know that the city is not organized. The agencies haven’t been well coordinated,” Medeiros told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a street safety hearing in the city’s Land Use and Transportation Committee this month, the Department of Public Health presented traffic death and injury data from 2023 — the most recent the agency had completed, representatives told supervisors. Its most recent high-injury network map is from 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA also revealed that it is lagging on safety improvements that were supposed to be complete along those streets last December, Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next 10 years of Vision Zero\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the morning of the hearing, Medeiros and other traffic safety advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to place white sneakers, flats and boots in rows in a somber protest. The 10 pairs of “ghost shoes” represented 10 people who have already died in vehicle crashes in 2025, since Vision Zero expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group held signs calling out the lapse in street safety policy and urging Lurie to take up the task of reviving it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter Walk SF sent to Lurie the same day, advocates demanded that he finalize a new policy by July 30, and have an interagency traffic safety plan codified by the end of September for the five agencies responsible for carrying it out: SFMTA, the departments of public health and public works, and the police and fire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director of Walk San Francisco, places flowers on a memorial of white shoes during a rally with traffic safety advocates from Walk SF, Families for Safe Streets, and the Vision Zero Coalition on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. The white shoes symbolize the pedestrians who have lost their lives in traffic crashes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel like this is a fair amount of time for him to be in office, to understand the agencies, to understand the challenges, what’s worked, what’s not worked, and to really create and have a robust, thoughtful new Vision Zero,” Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also lays out what Walk SF and Bay Area Families for Safer Streets, another advocacy group made up of crash survivors, want to see prioritized in the new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their main focuses is speeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dangerous speeding is a risk factor,” said advocate Jenny Yu, whose mother was in a severe crash in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was crossing the street on Park Presidio and Anza in Golden Gate Park, and a driver was turning left, speeding,” she recalled. “The SUV struck her body and swung her body across the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City data shows that 1 in 5 crashes are related to excessive speed, and as speed increases, so does the risk of severe injury and death. If a car traveling 20 mph hits a pedestrian, the risk of a fatality is 10%. If that car is going 40 mph, the risk surges to 80%.[aside postID=news_12028444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS13995_5682289311_963280efff_o-1440x961.jpg']“Now, there’s people going more than 20 miles an hour over the speed limit,” Yu said. “So speeding is definitely a factor that [the new] traffic safety plan has to have elements to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this week, San Francisco released the data from its first month operating speed-monitoring cameras that are meant to ticket drivers traveling more than 10 mph above the speed limit on certain roads. About 20 cameras sent out a collective 31,000 warnings to drivers on high-injury network streets in April, SFMTA reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once all 33 of the city’s cameras have been active for 60 days, the cameras will start administering tickets, which Medeiros said she believed can have a real effect on driver behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the success of similar technology in New York: “The cameras have reduced crashes, reduced speeds, and have been part of their program for Vision Zero,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walk SF’s letter to Lurie also requests that the new Vision Zero policy lower the speed limits on all high-injury network and commercial streets by 5 mph by 2027 and pursue state legislation to reduce speed limits on residential streets across the city to 20 mph the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also reiterates the importance of redesigning high-injury network streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great example is to look at the Tenderloin,” Medeiros said. “In the current high-injury network map, every single street on the Tenderloin is considered a dangerous street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides in the street by parked cars and stores.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by the Tilted Brim in the Tenderloin neighborhood, a part of the 5th Supervisorial District, in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, she said, the Tenderloin saw speed limits reduced to 20 mph; added pedestrian safety zones and daylighting, which makes it illegal to park a car within 20 feet of a pedestrian crosswalk; and removed lanes from the widest streets with the worst speeding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were applied universally in the neighborhood. They were applied at scale. And what we’ve really seen is crash rates and close calls have dropped, and speeds have come down,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those results to be more widespread throughout the city, Medeiros said, there needs to be better collaboration and accountability between city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been missing so far, she said, is a mayoral administration that makes Vision Zero a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vision Zero cities are where the mayors have embraced it and held agencies accountable for citywide change,” she said. “We are really looking at Mayor Lurie for taking a stand, embracing Vision Zero and holding these agencies accountable to make citywide changes to intersections and bringing down dangerous speeds and designing our streets for the most vulnerable people that are using them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘In leading Vision Zero cities, it’s the mayors’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Vision Zero has plenty of promises that remain unrealized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles of the high-injury network remain dangerous. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039914/just-over-half-sfs-speed-cameras-operational-whats-with-slowdown\">21 of the city’s 33 speed cameras have been set up\u003c/a>, despite the original March launch date. And while safety advocates had championed taking cars off Market Street in 2020, earlier this year, Lurie announced that autonomous vehicle company Waymo would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035348/mayor-lurie-allows-waymo-on-sfs-car-free-market-street\">begin operating\u003c/a> on the downtown thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city also scrapped plans to begin enforcing daylighting in March, after California passed legislation requiring the buffer zones at all intersections in 2023. SFMTA said it would hold off issuing citations until it was able to paint red all of the curbs the daylighting law applies to, which it estimated will take 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who has been held accountable? I have no evidence that anyone has been held accountable for any of the safe street issues,” Rose said. “Someone has to ultimately be responsible for enacting the changes and making sure that they happen, otherwise it just falls on deaf ears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates hope that person will be Lurie, who assured them at the unveiling of the first speed cameras in April that pedestrian safety is part of his public safety agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a leadership void on this, to be frank,” Medeiros said. “We really did advocate for this with Mayor Breed, and we’re back advocating this for Mayor Lurie … the ingredient that is currently missing is Mayor Lurie holding these agencies accountable in getting the work done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, just at the time I remember the sort of collapsing world of being like, ‘I expected this, I knew this would come at some point, and I just can’t believe it’s today,’” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intersection where Rose was hit is on San Francisco’s high-injury network, which indicates streets that have the highest percentage of severe and fatal injuries from vehicle crashes, and where the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it should invest the majority of its resources to prevent future crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose’s crash occurred three years into the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vision-zero\">Vision Zero campaign\u003c/a>, a 10-year effort to end traffic fatalities by making changes to infrastructure and driver behavior. That campaign officially ended in December, far from its goal. Now, transportation safety advocates are pushing Mayor Daniel Lurie and city officials to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic safety advocates from Walk San Francisco, Families for Safe Streets and the Vision Zero Coalition gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eight years into Vision Zero, another cyclist was struck and killed less than half a mile north of where Rose was on Arguello Boulevard, at another intersection marked high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both crashes, the intersection at Cornwall and Arguello, Rose said, looked exactly the same when he rode past it Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed on the entire section,” he told KQED. “There’s only construction going on right now on the upper section, and the lower section hasn’t had any adjustments made either. There are no new traffic signs or anything in that intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A commitment to ending traffic deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-Supervisor Norman Yee, who had survived a crash himself in 2006, shepherded Vision Zero into San Francisco, promising to coordinate city agencies around creating safer intersections for pedestrians and cyclists, and redesigning city streets to curb crash deaths.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The policy’s first action plan the following year had lofty goals: implement safety treatments along at least 13 miles of roadways on the high-injury network each year; assess which speed humps or signage slowed traffic and prevented accidents most effectively; and slow road speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vision Zero was introduced in San Francisco, the city struggled with an average of about 20 pedestrian deaths and hundreds of critical injuries due to vehicle crashes each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The result of this collaborative, citywide effort will be safer, more livable streets as we work to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024,” the plan reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite high hopes, when the policy sunsetted in December, it came at the end of one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">deadliest years yet\u003c/a> on San Francisco streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vision Zero expires with little to celebrate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The biggest tragedy is that 2024 was the worst year for traffic violence, and particularly for pedestrians, it was the worst year for traffic deaths for pedestrians since 2007,” said Jodie Medeiros, the executive director of pedestrian advocacy group Walk SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the nonprofit, 24 people were killed in crashes while walking last year, including a family of four who were waiting at a bus stop when they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992918/san-francisco-driver-78-arrested-months-after-crash-that-killed-family-of-4\">hit by a vehicle\u003c/a> that veered off the road in West Portal and onto the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, 42 people died in vehicle crashes while walking, biking and driving in 2024, and hundreds were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Vc9hv/8/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros said that since 2014, the city has made progress redesigning streets and adding traffic-slowing measures, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032036/sf-speed-cameras-first-in-state-turn-on-today-heres-where-they-are\">speed cameras\u003c/a> that began to go online last month. But one of the reasons she believes San Francisco is continuing to have a high number of injuries and deaths is because policy change has moved at a glacial pace, and agencies aren’t collaborating the way they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to know that the city is not organized. The agencies haven’t been well coordinated,” Medeiros told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a street safety hearing in the city’s Land Use and Transportation Committee this month, the Department of Public Health presented traffic death and injury data from 2023 — the most recent the agency had completed, representatives told supervisors. Its most recent high-injury network map is from 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA also revealed that it is lagging on safety improvements that were supposed to be complete along those streets last December, Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next 10 years of Vision Zero\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the morning of the hearing, Medeiros and other traffic safety advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to place white sneakers, flats and boots in rows in a somber protest. The 10 pairs of “ghost shoes” represented 10 people who have already died in vehicle crashes in 2025, since Vision Zero expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group held signs calling out the lapse in street safety policy and urging Lurie to take up the task of reviving it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter Walk SF sent to Lurie the same day, advocates demanded that he finalize a new policy by July 30, and have an interagency traffic safety plan codified by the end of September for the five agencies responsible for carrying it out: SFMTA, the departments of public health and public works, and the police and fire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director of Walk San Francisco, places flowers on a memorial of white shoes during a rally with traffic safety advocates from Walk SF, Families for Safe Streets, and the Vision Zero Coalition on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. The white shoes symbolize the pedestrians who have lost their lives in traffic crashes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel like this is a fair amount of time for him to be in office, to understand the agencies, to understand the challenges, what’s worked, what’s not worked, and to really create and have a robust, thoughtful new Vision Zero,” Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also lays out what Walk SF and Bay Area Families for Safer Streets, another advocacy group made up of crash survivors, want to see prioritized in the new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their main focuses is speeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dangerous speeding is a risk factor,” said advocate Jenny Yu, whose mother was in a severe crash in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was crossing the street on Park Presidio and Anza in Golden Gate Park, and a driver was turning left, speeding,” she recalled. “The SUV struck her body and swung her body across the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City data shows that 1 in 5 crashes are related to excessive speed, and as speed increases, so does the risk of severe injury and death. If a car traveling 20 mph hits a pedestrian, the risk of a fatality is 10%. If that car is going 40 mph, the risk surges to 80%.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Now, there’s people going more than 20 miles an hour over the speed limit,” Yu said. “So speeding is definitely a factor that [the new] traffic safety plan has to have elements to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this week, San Francisco released the data from its first month operating speed-monitoring cameras that are meant to ticket drivers traveling more than 10 mph above the speed limit on certain roads. About 20 cameras sent out a collective 31,000 warnings to drivers on high-injury network streets in April, SFMTA reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once all 33 of the city’s cameras have been active for 60 days, the cameras will start administering tickets, which Medeiros said she believed can have a real effect on driver behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the success of similar technology in New York: “The cameras have reduced crashes, reduced speeds, and have been part of their program for Vision Zero,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walk SF’s letter to Lurie also requests that the new Vision Zero policy lower the speed limits on all high-injury network and commercial streets by 5 mph by 2027 and pursue state legislation to reduce speed limits on residential streets across the city to 20 mph the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also reiterates the importance of redesigning high-injury network streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great example is to look at the Tenderloin,” Medeiros said. “In the current high-injury network map, every single street on the Tenderloin is considered a dangerous street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides in the street by parked cars and stores.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by the Tilted Brim in the Tenderloin neighborhood, a part of the 5th Supervisorial District, in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, she said, the Tenderloin saw speed limits reduced to 20 mph; added pedestrian safety zones and daylighting, which makes it illegal to park a car within 20 feet of a pedestrian crosswalk; and removed lanes from the widest streets with the worst speeding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were applied universally in the neighborhood. They were applied at scale. And what we’ve really seen is crash rates and close calls have dropped, and speeds have come down,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those results to be more widespread throughout the city, Medeiros said, there needs to be better collaboration and accountability between city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been missing so far, she said, is a mayoral administration that makes Vision Zero a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vision Zero cities are where the mayors have embraced it and held agencies accountable for citywide change,” she said. “We are really looking at Mayor Lurie for taking a stand, embracing Vision Zero and holding these agencies accountable to make citywide changes to intersections and bringing down dangerous speeds and designing our streets for the most vulnerable people that are using them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘In leading Vision Zero cities, it’s the mayors’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Vision Zero has plenty of promises that remain unrealized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles of the high-injury network remain dangerous. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039914/just-over-half-sfs-speed-cameras-operational-whats-with-slowdown\">21 of the city’s 33 speed cameras have been set up\u003c/a>, despite the original March launch date. And while safety advocates had championed taking cars off Market Street in 2020, earlier this year, Lurie announced that autonomous vehicle company Waymo would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035348/mayor-lurie-allows-waymo-on-sfs-car-free-market-street\">begin operating\u003c/a> on the downtown thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city also scrapped plans to begin enforcing daylighting in March, after California passed legislation requiring the buffer zones at all intersections in 2023. 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"content": "\u003cp>As Bay Area transit systems ride on the edge of financial catastrophe, some state leaders and transit advocates were disappointed to see that Gov. Gavin Newsom did not include a funding boost in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">revised budget proposal\u003c/a> on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley, had asked for $2 billion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039394/last-ditch-effort-fund-bay-area-transit-tries-pick-up-support\">emergency funding\u003c/a> for transit agencies, a stopgap solution ahead of their proposed sales tax measure for the November 2026 ballot that would raise much-needed money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area transit agencies, including BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain, face a combined budget deficit of more than $800 million in the next fiscal year. Without immediate funding, some supporters are worried that the agencies may be forced to reduce operations before a sales tax measure can be voted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that we include in the adopted budget funding to keep transit agencies in operation in California,” Arreguín said. “We’re at the edge of a fiscal cliff, and the impact this will have on our state and particularly the Bay Area, will be significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, however, that Newsom’s decision not to include transit funds in the revised state budget was not surprising. California now faces a $12 billion budget deficit in the coming fiscal year, according to the governor’s revised proposal, and the Trump administration’s hostilities threaten to further exacerbate the state’s economic uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1533px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMAGE-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1533\" height=\"1154\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMAGE-6-KQED.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMAGE-6-KQED-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMAGE-6-KQED-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMAGE-6-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1533px) 100vw, 1533px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banner reading “Gavin: Fund Transit” hangs from the pedestrian bridge over US-101 at Utah and 18th streets in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Public transit advocates in 12 cities across California dropped banners over highway overpasses to demand that Gov. Newsom include $2 billion in the upcoming state budget revision to keep transit systems running over the next two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fund California Public Transit.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We knew when we submitted our budget request that it would be challenging,” Arreguín said. “We’re not going to expect that the federal government’s going to save us here, so it’s up to the state. We’re going to work harder over the next few weeks to make our case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom’s revised budget proposal does not include the emergency transit funding, the state Legislature may decide to add it before the budget is finalized in June, Arreguín noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the money doesn’t come through, Arreguín warned that problems like last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039472/bart-shuts-down-entire-train-service-due-to-computer-networking-problem\">hourslong BART outage\u003c/a> that resulted in massive traffic jams and frustrated commuters could become more common.[aside postID=news_12040025 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg']Cyrus Hall, a transportation activist, urged state legislators to reconsider the emergency funding. Without the $2 billion requested by Wiener and Arreguín, transit agencies are going to struggle to survive, he said. Many of them, such as BART and Muni, will have to drastically reduce services, which could mean slashing weekend operations and running fewer trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, transit agencies could also decide to sustain themselves by reallocating funds, Hall said, adding that money typically spent on upkeep may be moved around in order to keep buses running, which could lead to unexpected failures. It’s not sustainable, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public transit is that linchpin that allows people to get to work, to get to school. 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We’re excited, but that also means there’s no clear process for how to do this,” Hake said. “We’ve been working with PG&E very closely for months now to develop a process that makes sure that our cameras won’t overload their system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/006_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8373_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/006_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8373_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/006_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8373_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/006_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8373_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/006_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8373_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/006_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8373_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/006_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8373_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting in March, speed cameras will be installed at different locations around San Francisco. 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PG&E agreed to provide SFPUC with an exception to the wholesale tariff and allow SFPUC to apply for wholesale service for the speed cameras — while PG&E negotiates an agreement to expedite this process in the future,” McFarland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to McFarland, PG&E has provided the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission with a list of requirements for the safe installation of cameras, including “submitting requests through their online portal and providing a badge number for which speed cameras will be installed on which assets.”[aside postID=news_12032036 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“Once we have this information, PG&E looks forward to proceeding with this project safely and efficiently,” McFarland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 645 mandates that newly installed cameras must give out $0 warning citations for at least 60 days before they begin to issue citations. Currently, just 18 of the system’s total 33 cameras are operational. The system launched on March 20 with 12 cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hake said the agency will wait until all 33 of the cameras pass the 60-day warning period before issuing citations to avoid potential confusion among drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Our intent from the beginning of the program has always been to have one moment when every camera switches from the warning period to the citation period,” Hake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA has said that speed is the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/media/39052/download?inline\"> leading cause of death\u003c/a> and serious injury on San Francisco’s streets, and that speed safety cameras are a “proven tool to address excessive speeding and reduce severe and fatal injury traffic collisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians have been killed in San Francisco so far this year. 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We desperately need speed cameras to start doing their job in reducing dangerous driver behavior and saving lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hake said the cameras are currently recording about 1,000 warnings a day.[aside postID=news_12020559 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-26-1020x680.jpg']“ The overall goal here is changing behavior. We’re not trying to issue citations,” Hake said. “So we see this warning period as an opportunity to just continue to spread the word,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once all cameras begin issuing citations, motorists caught driving 11 miles per hour to 15 miles per hour over the posted speed limit will receive a $50 citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citations can reach up to $500 if a motorist is caught driving over 100 mph. In October of last year, SFMTA contracted Verra Mobility, a smart transportation company based in Mesa, Arizona, to install and maintain the cameras, as well as process the tickets issued by the cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hake said SFMTA is making progress towards getting all the cameras online. She said over the past week, the agency installed four additional cameras, and that they have preliminary approvals for eight more. Those should be up by the end of May, leaving the remaining cameras left to be installed in the single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We know that this is life-saving technology and that every time we have a speed camera activated, it’s making the street around it much safer,” Hake said. “So we want all of our cameras to be online as quickly as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Afternoon rush hour brought the sounds of hundreds, if not thousands, of people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997857/barts-new-evasion-resistant-gates-arrive-in-san-francisco-for-the-first-time\">tagging their Clipper cards\u003c/a> and pushing their way through turnstiles on a recent Thursday at Embarcadero station in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the crowds was Anna Kondolf, from the town of Fairfax in Marin County, who was on her way to a dinner date in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought, why don’t we do this more? Because it was just so great to take the ferry here and then take BART,” Kondolf said. “It all kind of works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works, for now, but that interconnected network of transit could soon be severely reduced. Transit agencies across the Bay Area are forecasting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021178/sf-muni-reducing-bus-light-rail-service-amid-fiscal-crisis-more-cuts-loom\">drastic service cuts\u003c/a> if nothing is done to alleviate multimillion-dollar budget deficits set to begin in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley, earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032607/first-look-at-2026-tax-proposal-to-keep-bay-area-transit-running\">introduced a bill\u003c/a>, set to be heard Monday in the state Senate Appropriations Committee, that would put a sales tax on the ballot in some Bay Area counties next year in order to help fund these agencies and save the region’s public transit network as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need to work together and lock arms and understand that if our transit systems collapse, if we see catastrophic service cuts at Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain, that’s terrible for the entire region,” Wiener told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A slimmed-down tax proposal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it is currently written, Wiener and Arreguín’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63\">SB 63\u003c/a> would put a measure on the November 2026 ballot to impose a 0.5% sales tax in Alameda and Contra counties, and a 0.5% to 1% sales tax in San Francisco County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the tax would primarily go toward funding San Francisco’s Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain. Smaller transit agencies in the East Bay would also be eligible to receive funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11254007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11254007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\" alt=\"The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain cars at San José’s Diridon Station, December 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission found that the tax could generate between roughly $440 million and $550 million a year, depending on the tax rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener pulled a similar but farther-reaching bill from consideration last year in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now\">widespread opposition\u003c/a>. That effort would have covered all nine Bay Area counties and aimed to raise $1.5 billion for a wide variety of transit, street and highway improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the bill was narrowed down to just three counties, though it also includes a provision for San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to opt in by a July 31 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m cautiously optimistic about the bill’s prospects, but it ain’t over until it’s over,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Service cuts with deep implications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all the Bay Area’s main transit agencies, BART has the biggest deficit and is forecasting the most severe cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in fiscal year 2026, BART said its budget deficit will balloon to around $385 million. If SB 63 fails, the agency is considering cost-saving scenarios, including cutting two lines entirely, closing on weekends and shutting down the system at 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1976px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039661 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1976\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed.jpg 1976w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1920x1295.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1976px) 100vw, 1976px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train sits idle at the Millbrae station on July 3, 2013, in Millbrae, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not talking about their ability to continue to sustain the service that they have today by any stretch,” said Rebecca Long, director of legislation and public affairs at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of those cuts would not only be isolated to people who take public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If BART runs out of funding, drivers will sit in traffic for an extra 12 or more hours per week on average,” Laura Tolkoff, transportation policy director at the planning and urban research nonprofit SPUR, said at a media briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shades of that were seen Friday morning when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039472/bart-shuts-down-entire-train-service-due-to-computer-networking-problem\">computer networking problem\u003c/a> completely shut down BART for hours. Traffic on roads and bridges was snarled, with hundreds more Bay Bridge crossings recorded than the Friday before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of activists who support SB 63 took it as an opportunity to remind drivers what’s at stake if transit funding dries up, gathering at the backed-up Interstate 80 westbound off-ramp on Fremont Street in San Francisco with signs in support of BART and Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without sufficient funding, these kinds of problems are going to get worse,” transportation activist Cyrus Hall said. “BART’s been running on a shoestring for years, and we need to fix that now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1695px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1695\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS.png 1695w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-1020x697.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-1536x1049.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1695px) 100vw, 1695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area lawmakers are pushing for a regional sales tax measure to stave off drastic transit service cuts, as agencies across the region face mounting budget shortfalls starting in 2026. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muni, which is facing a deficit of around $320 million beginning July 2026, has discussed the need to cut up to 20 bus lines and reduce service on up to 28 bus and train routes if SB 63 fails, according to a Senate analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit and Caltrain have smaller deficits (around $30 million and $80 million, respectively) but are still forecasting service cuts without help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the four agencies represent around 80% of all Bay Area public transit trips, according to Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most transit agencies, but BART and Caltrain in particular, have historically relied on fares to fund operations, these agencies saw ridership plummet by 70% to 98% due to the pandemic, Long said. And although ridership is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news20250421#:~:text=Larger%20systems%20also%20saw%20significant,while%20Muni%20increased%20by%204%25.\">slowly recovering\u003c/a>, it still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we need to rebuild the business model for transit,” Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Different needs, different desires’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he is focused on “trying to build as much regional support as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s complicated because all the different counties have different needs, different desires,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit agencies’ boards have been meeting in recent weeks to discuss whether to back the measure. The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which oversees Caltrain, voted May 1 to endorse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a press conference in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, is still weighing whether to endorse Santa Clara County joining the regional sales tax measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a May 1 board meeting, some members expressed concern that Santa Clara County will not get a fair amount of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, polling commissioned by AC Transit showed that 54% of voters surveyed support a possible future parcel tax, separate from SB 63, to fund operations in the East Bay agency’s district alone.[aside postID=news_12039472 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250509-BARTOUTAGE-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The bill must be approved by the Senate by June 6 to make it to the Assembly floor. If it survives the Legislature and makes it onto the November 2026 ballot, it would need a simple majority from voters to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/news/new-poll-indicates-majority-support-transit-revenue-and-reform-measure\">poll of voters\u003c/a> in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties, commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and released in February, found that 54% of voters would vote yes on a half-cent sales tax to avoid major transit cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he is working with other lawmakers on a budget request worth $2 billion to fund public transit statewide in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the regional measure is successful, the cash will start coming in in 2027,” Wiener said, “The idea is to make sure that we don’t have to have service cuts before then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are stressing the importance of public transit for the overall health of the Bay Area economy, as the region continues to struggle to recover from the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the scaffolding for our economy,” said Tolkoff of SPUR. “When we think of how many organizations are trying to mandate people coming back into the office four or five days a week, we’re hearing that just won’t be possible if people can’t get to work on transit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works, for now, but that interconnected network of transit could soon be severely reduced. Transit agencies across the Bay Area are forecasting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021178/sf-muni-reducing-bus-light-rail-service-amid-fiscal-crisis-more-cuts-loom\">drastic service cuts\u003c/a> if nothing is done to alleviate multimillion-dollar budget deficits set to begin in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley, earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032607/first-look-at-2026-tax-proposal-to-keep-bay-area-transit-running\">introduced a bill\u003c/a>, set to be heard Monday in the state Senate Appropriations Committee, that would put a sales tax on the ballot in some Bay Area counties next year in order to help fund these agencies and save the region’s public transit network as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need to work together and lock arms and understand that if our transit systems collapse, if we see catastrophic service cuts at Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain, that’s terrible for the entire region,” Wiener told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A slimmed-down tax proposal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it is currently written, Wiener and Arreguín’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63\">SB 63\u003c/a> would put a measure on the November 2026 ballot to impose a 0.5% sales tax in Alameda and Contra counties, and a 0.5% to 1% sales tax in San Francisco County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the tax would primarily go toward funding San Francisco’s Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain. Smaller transit agencies in the East Bay would also be eligible to receive funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11254007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11254007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\" alt=\"The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain cars at San José’s Diridon Station, December 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission found that the tax could generate between roughly $440 million and $550 million a year, depending on the tax rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener pulled a similar but farther-reaching bill from consideration last year in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now\">widespread opposition\u003c/a>. That effort would have covered all nine Bay Area counties and aimed to raise $1.5 billion for a wide variety of transit, street and highway improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the bill was narrowed down to just three counties, though it also includes a provision for San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to opt in by a July 31 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m cautiously optimistic about the bill’s prospects, but it ain’t over until it’s over,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Service cuts with deep implications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all the Bay Area’s main transit agencies, BART has the biggest deficit and is forecasting the most severe cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in fiscal year 2026, BART said its budget deficit will balloon to around $385 million. If SB 63 fails, the agency is considering cost-saving scenarios, including cutting two lines entirely, closing on weekends and shutting down the system at 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1976px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039661 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1976\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed.jpg 1976w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1920x1295.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1976px) 100vw, 1976px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train sits idle at the Millbrae station on July 3, 2013, in Millbrae, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not talking about their ability to continue to sustain the service that they have today by any stretch,” said Rebecca Long, director of legislation and public affairs at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of those cuts would not only be isolated to people who take public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If BART runs out of funding, drivers will sit in traffic for an extra 12 or more hours per week on average,” Laura Tolkoff, transportation policy director at the planning and urban research nonprofit SPUR, said at a media briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shades of that were seen Friday morning when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039472/bart-shuts-down-entire-train-service-due-to-computer-networking-problem\">computer networking problem\u003c/a> completely shut down BART for hours. Traffic on roads and bridges was snarled, with hundreds more Bay Bridge crossings recorded than the Friday before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of activists who support SB 63 took it as an opportunity to remind drivers what’s at stake if transit funding dries up, gathering at the backed-up Interstate 80 westbound off-ramp on Fremont Street in San Francisco with signs in support of BART and Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without sufficient funding, these kinds of problems are going to get worse,” transportation activist Cyrus Hall said. “BART’s been running on a shoestring for years, and we need to fix that now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1695px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1695\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS.png 1695w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-1020x697.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-1536x1049.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1695px) 100vw, 1695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area lawmakers are pushing for a regional sales tax measure to stave off drastic transit service cuts, as agencies across the region face mounting budget shortfalls starting in 2026. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muni, which is facing a deficit of around $320 million beginning July 2026, has discussed the need to cut up to 20 bus lines and reduce service on up to 28 bus and train routes if SB 63 fails, according to a Senate analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit and Caltrain have smaller deficits (around $30 million and $80 million, respectively) but are still forecasting service cuts without help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the four agencies represent around 80% of all Bay Area public transit trips, according to Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most transit agencies, but BART and Caltrain in particular, have historically relied on fares to fund operations, these agencies saw ridership plummet by 70% to 98% due to the pandemic, Long said. And although ridership is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news20250421#:~:text=Larger%20systems%20also%20saw%20significant,while%20Muni%20increased%20by%204%25.\">slowly recovering\u003c/a>, it still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we need to rebuild the business model for transit,” Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Different needs, different desires’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he is focused on “trying to build as much regional support as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s complicated because all the different counties have different needs, different desires,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit agencies’ boards have been meeting in recent weeks to discuss whether to back the measure. 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