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SFMTA outlines Transit Effectiveness Project to boost reliability, service and sustainability
Summary
SFMTA presented the Transit Effectiveness Project to the San Francisco Commission on the Environment, describing a data-driven plan to increase service by 12%, replace buses, reduce vehicle miles traveled and pursue a November bond that would allocate $150 million for implementation.
Julie Kirschbaum, operations planning and scheduling manager at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, presented the agency’s Transit Effectiveness Project to the San Francisco Commission on the Environment during a regular commission meeting. The agency said the project combines a policy framework, service and route changes, and targeted capital investments to make transit more reliable and to shift more trips to sustainable modes.
"As an agency, SFMTA is very committed to a sustainable San Francisco," Kirschbaum said, describing an agency strategic-plan goal to have sustainable modes account for 50 percent of all trips. She said the program is data-driven and grounded in extensive community outreach and that implementation planning and environmental review are complete and phased implementation is planned over the next two to three years.
SFMTA said it has…
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