Welcome to the San Francisco County Transportation Authority

BART Perks is a six-month test program being offered by BART and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority to explore new ways to reduce crowding.

Riders earn points for every trip on BART. Those points can be exchanged for small cash rewards or used to play a Spin to Win game for the chance to pick up additional points or random cash rewards from $1 to $100.

Sign up or learn more at the BART Perks website.

This program complements BART’s long-term efforts to reduce crowding and congestion on trains and in stations including upgrading train controls and other major system infrastructure, adding more trains to the fleet, and running trains closer together.

The program is funded primarily through a grant from the Federal Highway Administration, and the program design is based on successful implementation of similar programs around the world. READ MORE

Photo by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Commons: https://flic.kr/p/gUAHfj

San Francisco has been making real improvements in transit reliability, pedestrian and bike safety and the pavement condition of our streets.

But we need significant increased investment to bring our transportation network into a better state of repair and reliability, and to address rapid growth that has led to significant crowding on Muni, BART, and Caltrain and increased congestion.

The Mayor and San Francisco Board of Supervisors have placed on the November 2016 ballot Proposition J, which creates a fund for Homelessness and Transportation. If approved, Proposition J would direct additional funds to critical transit services and transportation improvements in every neighborhood, including safer, well-maintained streets, transit maintenance and expansion, and Muni equity and affordability programs. It would also fund priorities that received little or no funding from 2014 Proposition A and Proposition B, such as repaving our streets, and new BART and Muni cars.

A separate measure, Proposition K, would raise the city’s general sales tax by 0.75%. Proposition K would generate roughly the same amount of funding in new annual revenues as is identified in Proposition J for Transportation ($100M) and Homelessness programs ($50M). 

Both Proposition J and K require a simple majority of voters to approve them in November 2016 in order for them to take effect. READ MORE

The Alemany Interchange—where U.S. 101, I-280, Alemany Boulevard, Bayshore Boulevard, San Bruno Avenue and local streets intersect—presents challenges to pedestrian and bicycle safety.

At Commissioner David Campos' request, the Transportation Authority is working with neighboring communities, led by the Portola Neighborhood Association, to make the area safer and more accessible to all travelers.

Transportation Authority staff are coordinating with SFMTA planners and engineers and Caltrans staff to develop potential circulation and safety enhancement projects for the area. Community outreach is also underway to obtain input on the various improvement options.

The Alemany Interchange Improvement Study is just one of several efforts under the Transportation Authority’s Neighborhood Transportation Improvement Program (NTIP), which funds neighborhood transportation planning efforts and capital projects in every district in San Francisco. The program was developed through the Transportation Authority’s 2013 Countywide Transportation Plan to strengthen the pipeline of projects at the neighborhood level, particularly in underserved areas and Communities of Concern.

See where else NTIP work is taking place across San Francisco and let us know your ideas for the next update of the San Francisco Transportation Plan, now underway.

In collaboration with transit riders and residents, the Transportation Authority has issued a study aimed at creating better, faster transit connections throughout the city’s west side neighborhoods.

The Strategic Analysis Report on West Side Transit Access, initiated by Commissioner Katy Tang, explores several options to make transit more competitive with driving and to improve access to local and regional transit hubs such as Daly City and West Portal.

Download the report from the Strategic Analysis Reports website.

Among the options highlighted include exploring a rapid service for Muni’s 29-Sunset line; modifying underutilized bus routes, such as the 66-Quintara, piloting methods to encourage carpooling and ridesharing to hubs and providing secure bicycle parking and reducing conflicts at West Portal Station.

Key study recommendations already moving forward include Commissioner Tang’s request for Neighborhood Transportation Improvement Program (NTIP) planning funds for Muni to conduct service planning on the 66-Quintara and the programming of Prop AA vehicle registration funds to create more space at the Daly City BART station to accommodate planned local bus service increases including for the 14R-Mission.

The study area encompasses the area south of Golden Gate Park and north of the city line and includes the Sunset, Parkside, West Portal and Golden Gate Heights neighborhoods as well as the areas around Stonestown Mall, Lake Merced and San Francisco State University.

Photo: James_A_Castañeda via Flickr Commons

The Neighborhood Transportation Improvement Program (NTIP) funds community-based neighborhood-scale planning efforts, especially in underserved neighborhoods and areas with vulnerable populations (e.g. seniors, children, and/or people with disabilities).

The NTIP was developed in response to mobility and equity analysis findings from the San Francisco Transportation Plan (SFTP), the city’s 30-year blueprint guiding transportation investment in San Francisco, and the Transportation Authority Board's desire for more focus on neighborhoods, especially on Communities of Concern and other underserved neighborhoods.

The SFTP found that walking, biking and transit reliability initiatives are important ways to address socio-economic and geographic inequities.

The NTIP is made possible by the Transportation Authority through grants from San Francisco's half-cent sales tax for transportation.

Current NTIP Projects

For more information on the NTIP program see our NTIP pages. For information on individual projects, see below. READ MORE

District 1. Improving Connections from Golden Gate Park to the Presido District 1. Arguello Boulevard Near-Term Improvements District 2. Lombard Study: Managing Access to the "Crooked Street" District 2. Lombard Street/US-101 Corridor Pedestrian Safety District 3. Kearny Street Multimodal Implementation District 4. 66-Quintara Reconfiguration Study District 5. Western Addition Community-Based Transportation Plan District 6. Golden Gate Avenue Buffered Bike Lane Photo courtesy Lynn Friedman via flickr Commons.

District 6. Bessie Carmichael Crosswalk District 6. South Park Traffic Calming District 6. Vision Zero Ramp Intersection Study District 6. Folsom-Howard Streetscape Project District 7. Balboa Area Transportation Demand Management Study District 9. Alemany Interchange Improvement Study District 10. Cesar Chavez/ Bayshore/Potrero Intersection Improvement Project District 10. Potrero Hill Pedestrian Safety and Transit Access

From signals to streetcars, bicycles to boulevards, from pedestrian safety to paving, the Transportation Authority provides funding for hundreds of transportation projects citywide. The MyStreetSF interactive map shows projects currently underway, proposed, and recently completed that are funded by, or prioritized for funding by the Transportation Authority, as well as those for which the we provide some level of oversight, in our role as Congestion Management Agency for San Francisco. The MyStreetSF interactive map allows you to search for projects by location, Supervisorial District, project type (e.g., bicycle, pedestrian safety, transit rehabilitation), project sponsor, or timeline. Click on a project on the map to see key information (e.g., short description, schedule, cost) and a link to the project page and/or project sponsor’s main page. The map page also includes information on city-wide projects and programs like Bicycle Education and Outreach. READ MORE

Citizens (or Community) Advisory Committees, also known as CACs, are an important part of our planning efforts: they give the public—community and business stakeholders—a voice in the direction and scope of many of our projects, analyze benefits and impacts on San Francisco’s many communities, and recommend courses of action.

We currently have one vacancy on our agency-wide CAC. If you’re interested, get in touch with us! Call 415.522.4800 or send us an email. We need your guidance and support!

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