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City officials cite large TNC trip volumes and enforcement findings as congestion rises; committee seeks more regulatory tools
Summary
Data presented to the committee showed declining travel speeds, an estimated 170,000 daily TNC trips that start and end in San Francisco, and enforcement results finding a majority of targeted violations involved TNCs; supervisors pressed for more enforcement options and urged state action on regulatory authority.
A committee hearing on citywide traffic congestion centered on data the Transportation Authority and SFMTA presented showing slower corridor speeds, large numbers of trips by transportation‑network companies (TNCs), and enforcement operations that found TNC vehicles were disproportionately represented among violations in congested corridors.
Jeff Hobson, Deputy Director for Planning at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, said preliminary congestion monitoring over the last eight years shows declining speeds on major streets (recent May measures showed average speeds of just over 12 mph in the afternoon and about 14 mph in the morning) and noted the city has added more than 50,000 residents and roughly 120,000 jobs since 2009. Hobson…
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