Supervisors Mandelman and Melgar Elected Chair and Vice-Chair
During the first Transportation Authority Board meeting of the year, District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was re-elected as Chair and District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar as Vice-Chair. The leadership team will guide the agency’s transportation policy, funding, planning, and project delivery efforts in the coming year.
Chair Mandelman has served as Chair since 2021 and Supervisor Melgar succeeds Supervisor Aaron Peskin in the Vice-Chair role.
“I look forward to working with colleagues, staff, and partners as we collaborate with the public to expand access, advance equity, and improve safety citywide,” said Chair Mandelman. “All these priorities will require significant investment, much of which will come from the city’s newly extended half-cent sales tax for transportation. I want to reiterate my gratitude to the voters of San Francisco for passing Proposition L last November. That proposition will direct $2.6 billion over 30 years to help deliver safer, smoother streets, more reliable transit, continue paratransit services for seniors and persons with disabilities, reduce congestion, and improve air quality.”
The Transportation Authority will pursue several important initiatives this year, including addressing the transit “fiscal cliff” that Muni, BART, and Caltrain face as federal transit operations funding winds down, planning for a Bayview Caltrain station, advancing Caltrain’s connection to the Salesforce Transit Center and exploring the potential for a 19th Avenue/Geary corridor subway.
The agency is finalizing delivery of the Yerba Buena Island Southgate Road Realignment project and will soon break ground on the adjacent West Side Bridges Retrofit project. On Treasure Island, staff will conduct an autonomous shuttle pilot, the first demonstration of autonomous vehicle shuttles transporting members of the public on public roadways in California.
This year agency staff will also move ahead with significant neighborhood-based transportation improvements, including completing access and safety studies for Octavia Boulevard and Ocean Avenue while starting transportation studies in Districts 1, 2, 4 (On-Demand Shuttle Study), 7, and 11 (Brotherhood Way).
The Transportation Authority Board consists of the 11 members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who elect a chair and vice-chair each January and act as Transportation Authority Board Members.
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Transportation Authority 2022 Annual Report Released
This month the Transportation Authority also approved the 2022 Annual Report which provides a review of the agency's activities throughout the past year.
Voters approved Proposition L, the Sales Tax for Transportation Projects funding measure, that will direct $2.6 billion in half-cent sales tax to projects large and small citywide, over 30 years.
Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit begins service and marks the first center-lane Bus Rapid Transit corridor in San Francisco. The Transportation Authority helped lay the groundwork and provided local matching funds for this major corridor upgrade.
BART reopens its Powell Station restrooms after 20 years, and modernized the station with funding support from San Francisco’s half-cent sales tax for transportation.
Presidio’s Tunnel Tops and Battery Bluff parks open. The opening of the parks marked the culmination of a three-decade government and community effort to replace Doyle Drive with the Presidio Parkway (US Highway 101), a joint partnership between Caltrans and the Transportation Authority.
Central Subway opened and added four new train stations to San Francisco’s transit system. The Transportation Authority was a significant early planning and funding partner for the project.
The Transportation Authority Board adopted a major update of our countywide long-range transportation plan known as the San Francisco Transportation Plan, the city’s long-range investment and policy blueprint encompassing every transportation mode, transit operator, and all streets and freeways within San Francisco over a 30-year horizon.