Lian Chikako

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Yes to transit, housing, and safe streets. 👟🏡🚆🚲 Gather signatures with us for Connect Bay Area, the five-county regional transit funding measure for the Nov 26 ballot! https://luma.com/connectbayarea

Social media post that says: "Everyone who owns a car on Great Highway park your cars in front of your homes so folks coming in from other parts of the City can not park their cars."
Tumlin’s bus is pulling out, but his capable director of transit, Julie Kirschbaum, will fill his place in an interim role — and, perhaps, far longer than that. If you’re looking for a sports analogy, Kirschbaum is to the SFMTA as Buddy Ryan was to the ’85 Bears — the coordinator overseeing the most outstanding element of the organization. That’s the defense in Ryan’s case and transit in Kirschbaum’s.
Selfie w/three people and a dog, and guy in the middle has a Muni tattoo on his bicep
Today the difference is stark. Residents of the United States are three times as likely to die in a traffic collision than someone living in France. There’s no singular reason but rather a series of steps in France that has shifted the reliance on cars and where they can be driven.
Tweet from @SFMTA_Muni: ATTN: Muni is no longer able to serve stops in exclusion zones. Muni service is passing blocked stops. For safety, riders should not stand in the street as Muni buses will not stop. Conditions are changing rapidly due to street impacts. Details here: https://www.sfmta.com/projects/asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-apec-transit-and-travel-information
Map of downtown San Francisco with a zig zag route marked from Citvic Center Plaza to the Embarcadero, just north of Market. Path of proposed Big Wiggle: The Big Wiggle project proposes creating a 2-mile path of car-free, pedestrian-friendly promenades linking City Hall and Embarcadero Plaza.
Promotional photo of a slender Black man in a dapper vintage white suit jacket and fedora, with a pocket watch, on a theatrical stage. Richard May appearing as Uncle Ben in the African-American Shakespeare Company's production of Death of a Salesman. May was killed by a driver Saturday in San Francisco.