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MTA outlines Transit First, Vision Zero and parking management at redevelopment workshop
Summary
At an Oct. 6, 2015 workshop, MTA staff presented Transit First and Vision Zero policy goals and urged tying transit investments to redevelopment in areas such as Mission Bay and Hunters Point; commissioners pressed MTA on equity, tech-shuttle enforcement and resident parking policies.
At the Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure’s Oct. 6, 2015 meeting, Tom McGuire, director of the MTA’s sustainable streets program, told commissioners the city’s long-standing Transit First policy and the Vision Zero goal must shape redevelopment in project areas including Mission Bay, Hunters Point Shipyard and the Transbay corridor.
McGuire said Transit First — "the city's policy for over 40 years" — prioritizes public transit as the preferred mode for city trips, and described Vision Zero as a joint commitment by the mayor, Board of Supervisors and MTA to reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2024: "Currently we lose 30 San Franciscans every year on our streets," he said. He also highlighted cost and space trade-offs in building parking, saying in San Francisco "it can cost up to a $100,000 to build a single parking space."
Why it matters: Commissioners are asked to make project-level land-use decisions that will shape how thousands of new housing units connect to transit. The MTA presentation framed parking, transit service and developer-provided…
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