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Saturday, March 30, 2024
Introducing Applications for Our Scooter Share Program – and Celebrating Wins Shaped by Your Feedback
By Maddy Ruvolo
Scooters are an important part of San Francisco’s multimodal transportation network.
We’re excited to open applications for the FY2025 – FY2026 Powered Scooter Share Program. This program supports the city’s goal of providing multiple reliable transportation options to get around San Francisco.
The current permits for scooter share operators expire in June 2024. The next round will go into effect on July 1, 2024.
For operators who want to apply to the Powered Scooter Share program:
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See the FY2025 – FY2026 Powered Scooter Share Program webpage for application materials.
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Check out the bottom of this blog for a section with more details about the process.
Scooter program successes: how your feedback helped
Over the past several years, we have reached out to stakeholders in a variety of ways to gather feedback on our shared scooter program.
There have been concerns about sidewalk riding and improper scooter parking. These included cases where scooters block the path of travel for people walking or using mobility devices. We also heard feedback about the need for better adaptive scooter options.
We considered this community feedback and have revised our application process. We’ve made improvements in the following areas.
Scooter safety
We launched campaigns and changed policies to protect people who walk, roll and take transit.
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Educational campaign
Our educational campaign is aimed at people who ride shared scooters and/or privately-owned ones. This campaign includes information about how to ride safely. See our scooter safety campaign blog for details.
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Safe parking incentive policy
We also thought deeply about incentives that might inspire safer behavior. We instituted an incentive program that motivates scooter companies to move improperly parked scooters quickly. If scooter companies respond faster to complaints of improperly parked scooters, the fines they face are reduced. This has resulted in huge wins for safety.
The average response time to complaints of improperly parked devices dropped from six hours to one hour.
See the Safe Micromobility Parking Policy webpage for more information.
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Sidewalk detection technology
Our transportation code now requires that all shared scooter devices have sidewalk detection technology. This technology slows down shared scooters if riders use them on the sidewalk. The scooters emit an audible alert, and the scooter share companies are required to send us a monthly report of sidewalk riding.
This helps us understand where sidewalk riding happens most frequently, so we can send our enforcement team to those hotspots.
Students from AccessSFUSD test adaptive scooters in Golden Gate Park.
Scooter accessibility
We have received extensive feedback on our adaptive scooter programs. We did this by holding events in partnership with AccessSFUSD and scooter share companies and by soliciting feedback from the Multimodal Accessibility Advisory Committee and the Mayor’s Disability Council.
For more information, see our blog on partnering with AccessSFUSD. You can also check out our blog highlighting an adaptive scooter event with our current permittees.
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Prioritizing adaptive devices
We’re prioritizing more seated devices and those with greater stability. This can include devices with larger wheels, backrests, floorboards, and other adaptive features. Continuing a requirement from the current permit cycle, all scooter operators in our program will have to offer seated scooters as part of their on-street fleets.
We are continuing our separate Adaptive Scooter Program, as well. The program includes new requirements based on community feedback to increase usability, such as extending required rental hours so that adaptive scooters can more easily be used for commuting.
Scooter affordability
We’re ensuring that people of all income levels can benefit from our shared scooter program.
For shared scooter riders with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines:
We require all scooter share permittees to offer low-income plans that waive any applicable scooter deposit. They must also offer a minimum of 50% discount off rental fees or unlimited trips under 30 minutes. Additionally, they must provide a cash payment option.
Want to provide feedback?
We encourage you to tell us what you think of these improvements and continue giving us feedback. To get in touch about the shared scooter program, you can email ScooterShare@SFMTA.com.
About the Application
If you’re interested in applying to become an operator in our shared scooter program:
The deadline to apply is April 26, 2024.
We will hold a Question & Answer session on April 5 at 2p.m. Applicants must submit questions in writing to ScooterShare@SFMTA.com by 12p.m. on April 3.
Applications will be evaluated against a standardized evaluation scorecard to determine the strongest proposals. We expect to issue new scooter permits to applicants that meet San Francisco’s high standards for safety, equity, accessibility and accountability.
We anticipate announcing successful applicants later this spring, and the new two-year permits will take effect on July 1, 2024.
Published March 30, 2024 at 05:50AM
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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Celebrate Women in the Trades at Muni and Learn How to Work in their Fields
By Glennis Markison
Jeena Villamor checks resistance on the contactors for an accelerator drum at the SFMTA.
This Women’s History Month, we’re proud to feature women in the trades and engineering at the SFMTA.
You’ll hear from contract managers, car cleaners, engineers, machinists, mechanics, parts storekeepers and more. They all help keep our system safe, clean and accessible for everybody. We appreciate their hard work!
We also want to encourage more women to enter their fields. That’s why we’re celebrating women in a way that helps others take action.
Below, you can click on a job title to learn about one of our female staffers in the trades and engineering. You’ll see:
- What jobs they had before their SFMTA role
- What key skills they need for their current job
- What their typical workday looks like
- What they enjoy most about their job
In each story, you’ll also find relevant courses or apprenticeship programs.
Check out the video at the end of this blog to hear more from Machinist Apprentice Brittany McMartin.
To learn about open opportunities at our agency, you can visit the SFMTA Career Center.
Published March 29, 2024 at 12:42AM
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Then and Now at Kirkland Division, Muni’s Oldest Motor Bus Yard
By Jeremy Menzies
Tucked away on the northeast edge of San Francisco is our transit system's oldest motor bus yard. Small but mighty, Kirkland Division has been home to some of Muni’s fleet of motor buses for nearly 75 years.
These two panoramic photos show Kirkland Division during and after construction. Top photo taken July 20, 1950, bottom September 14, 1950.
Kirkland was built in 1950 amidst freight rail yards and factories. Its namesake comes from a former Southern Pacific Railroad official, William B. Kirkland, who worked in a rail yard on the site during World War II. Today, the division is nestled among Pier 39 attractions, parking garages and hotels.
An aerial view from 1972 shows Kirkland in the upper center of the photo. Industrial uses in the area have begun to give way to residential and tourist areas.
The yard was primarily designed as an operations facility. It has shops and equipment only for routine maintenance and light repairs. With a capacity of around 125 buses, it’s nearly half the size of the SFMTA’s largest yard, Woods Division.
This color photo from 1971 shows a yard full of old and new Muni buses. To the north lies the remnants of a once massive freight rail yard.
Today, some of the system’s longer cross-town routes run out of Kirkland. Operations and maintenance staff keep the 12, 19, 28, 28R, 43, and 21 (weekend only) on the road.
By the time this 1980 photo was taken, the rail yard north of Kirkland was replaced by a parking garage for Pier 39 attractions.
Kirkland could play a key role in our work to electrify our fleet. The yard is being studied for reconstruction as a potential battery-electric bus facility. Proposals for this project include building an overhead grid system that would allow buses to charge while in the yard. You can learn more on our Kirkland Yard Electrification Project webpage (SFMTA.com/KirklandYard).
This 2023 view shows a much-changed neighborhood but a relatively unchanged Kirkland Yard.
Kirkland Yard was a crucial part of the Muni system when it was built in 1950. It remains one today as we look toward the future of transportation in San Francisco.
Published March 22, 2024 at 12:40AM
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Friday, March 15, 2024
How New Speed Cameras Will Make Our Neighborhoods Safer
By Shannon Hake
A new roadway safety tool will make San Francisco's streets safer in 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about Automated Speed Enforcement cameras.
What is an Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) Camera?
Speed is the leading factor in collisions on San Francisco’s streets. Multiple studies have shown that the faster a vehicle travels before a collision, the lower the survival rate is for the occupants and other victims outside the vehicle. ASE cameras are a well-used tool to discourage dangerous vehicle speeding on neighborhood streets and highways. Widespread across Europe, the Middle East and many U.S. States, these cameras capture the license plate number of vehicles traveling over the posted speed limit. A citation is then issued to the vehicle owner.
Why Is San Francisco Getting Speed Enforcement Cameras Right Now?
Safety advocates and politicians alike have long championed speed enforcement cameras as a critical way to address the growing rates of injuries and fatalities on our roadways. In 2023, the California State Legislature passed Assembly Bill 645, which authorized six cities, including San Francisco, to pilot the cameras for five years. The SFMTA has been working tirelessly to build this new program since the bill was signed into law. Our staff has been gathering data on speeding in the city, selecting camera locations and meeting with community-based organizations. We’re excited to bring this new safety tool to our city in early 2025.
How Speed Enforcement Camera Locations Were Chosen
Simply put, AB 645 spelled out how to select locations for these cameras.
First, cameras could only be installed on a street if one of three requirements were met:
- The street was previously designated a safety corridor with a high proportion of injury-related crashes.
- The street has a high number of vehicle racing incidents.
- Or the street is located in a school zone.
For San Francisco, the decision was clear: to install cameras on our High-Injury Network (HIN), which is the 12% of city streets that account for 68% of our serious and fatal roadway injuries. State law also specified that cameras could only be installed on city-owned streets (so freeways and state-owned roads like 19th Avenue or Lombard Street would not qualify) and that cameras should be geographically dispersed throughout the city.
The process for selecting camera locations began with a review of speed-related collisions on HIN streets. The team then identified locations along these streets where more vulnerable roadway users might be present, such as near schools, senior service centers, parks and areas with high pedestrian activity. Finally, individual block segments suitable for speed cameras were identified within these areas — blocks with clear sight lines, with existing mid-block streetlight poles owned by the city.
This initial analysis yielded more than 70 locations throughout San Francisco. Using pneumatic tubes or radar, the SFMTA collected vehicle speed and volume counts at each location. This detailed data was then analyzed to identify locations with the highest percentage of vehicles traveling 10 MPH or more over the posted speed limit. AB 645 sets 11 MPH or more as the speeding threshold that speed safety cameras will target.
Where Are Speed Cameras Going to be Installed?
The data-driven process for selecting camera locations has identified 33 recommended speed camera locations. These locations are in every corner of the city, in neighborhoods that may look different from one another, but all have vehicles traveling too fast. They are geographically distributed along San Francisco’s High Injury Network, with at least two cameras in each Supervisor’s district and at many key freeway touchdown points in the city.
These cameras will enforce lower speeds outside of eight school sites, 12 parks, 11 social service sites serving seniors and people with disabilities and 12 neighborhood commercial districts where many people walk or bike. Furthermore, the cameras will be located on streets that reflect the full diversity of San Francisco’s neighborhoods—the makeup of key socioeconomic characteristics in the 33 camera areas is roughly equal to the makeup of those indicators in San Francisco as a whole.
The entire list of recommended camera locations can be found on the Speed Safety Camera program page.
What’s Next for ASE in San Francisco?
On Tuesday, March 19, staff will update the SFMTA Board of Directors on the program’s progress. We will also present the data we collected and discuss the locations chosen for speed cameras in more detail. The data also is now live on the Speed Safety Camera program page. The SFMTA Board will vote to approve the camera locations in the next few months.
Next, the SFMTA will work on completing the development of other critical aspects of the ASE program, including selecting a camera vendor, finalizing the citation process, building a community education and awareness campaign and much more.
Automated Speed Enforcement cameras are expected to launch in early 2025. We look forward to sharing more information about the program in the coming months.
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To learn more about the SFMTA’s Automated Speed Enforcement efforts, visit sfmta.com/speedcameras.
Published March 15, 2024 at 05:07AM
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