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February 24, 2025
SFMTA has completed construction of a new boarding island for M Ocean View Muni riders at San Jose and Geneva Avenue. The project is one of the first quick-build elements of the M Ocean View Transit and Safety Project.
February 17, 2025
The Bay Skyway is designed to create a 7.5-mile corridor connecting downtown San Francisco, downtown Oakland, West Oakland, Yerba Buena Island, and Treasure Island. The project will create a safe and seamless alternative route for cyclists, pedestrians, and transit riders that will bypass the Bay Bridge corridor.
February 13, 2025
We celebrated the completion of new next generation fare gates at Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, and Civic Center BART stations. The new fare gates are designed to improve safety, customer experience, accessibility, reliability, and to deter fare evasion at BART stations.
January 30, 2025
The Transportation Authority Board elected District 7 Commissioner Myrna Melgar as Chair and District 3 Commissioner Danny Sauter as Vice-Chair for 2025. Our agency also released the 2024 Annual Report that provides highlights of what we planned, funded, and delivered last year.
January 29, 2025
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced awards for the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity grant program. $25 million was awarded to BART to fund the replacement of train control systems and $10 million was awarded to SFMTA to fund the Presidio Yard Modernization project.
January 15, 2025
This month, we joined Bay Area community and transit leaders at the Milpitas BART station to sign the Equity In Infrastructure Project Pledge. The coalition of signers is committed to increasing contracting opportunities for historically underutilized businesses in the infrastructure sector.
January 06, 2025
We celebrated the completion of the Safer Taylor Street project with District 8 Supervisor and former Transportation Authority Chair Rafael Mandelman, former District 5 Supervisor and Transportation Authority Board member Dean Preston, SFMTA, SF Public Works, Caltrans, Tenderloin Taskforce, and community partners.
January 02, 2025
In December we joined former Transportation Authority Board Member and District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai, SFMTA, San Francisco Public Works, San Francisco Police Department, and community members to celebrate the completion of a new signal at Alemany Boulevard and Rousseau Street.
December 12, 2024
San Francisco residents share their transit experiences with projects we’ve helped fund through our voter-approved half-cent sales tax for transportation, ranging from neighborhood-scale improvements to capital projects.
December 05, 2024
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission awarded $750,000 to the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department to support the Visitacion Avenue Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Improvement Project.
December 02, 2024
The November 2024 election marked the 35th anniversary of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. In 1989, city voters passed Proposition B, approving the first half-cent transportation sales tax expenditure plan and creating the Transportation Authority, the agency charged with its administration and overseen by the 11 members of the Board of Supervisors sitting in their capacity as the Transportation Authority’s Board of Commissioners.
November 22, 2024
On November 20, we joined District 10 Transportation Authority Board Member Shamann Walton, SFMTA, the California Air Resources Board, the Bayview Community Youth Center, Community Congress for the Bayview Shuttle Program, Caltrain, SamTrans, community leaders, and more to celebrate the launch of the Bayview Shuttle.
November 06, 2024
The Transportation Authority has launched community outreach for the Inner Sunset Transportation Study, which is exploring ways to improve safety and access within the commercial core of the neighborhood.
November 04, 2024
Water transit plays a critical role for many in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the ferry system is getting a major funding boost to support zero-emission service and a service network build-out.
November 01, 2024
The Construction Management Association of America has awarded the 2024 Golden Key Award to our Deputy Director for Capital Projects, Carl Holmes.