Here’s the PowerPoint they’re going to go through today at the SFMTA 2020 Board Workshop:
Put down your coffee: “Citywide, almost all our key performance indicators have worsened,” so, it was on fire when I got here:
Is this graphic real life? Holy Toledo.
Moving on.
So, if you get a lift through the Flywheel app from a gasoline-powered Toyota, that’s called sustainable, but if you get a lift using the UBER or Lyft (aka TNC) app from an all-electric Tesla, well that’s “non-sustainable.” Do you see how this hocus-pocus works, Gentle Reader? This is how mid-level ppl at the SFMTA earn their quarter million dollar pay packages, through word engineering such as this:
As a reminder, the Mode Share for bicycle trips was going to be 10% in 2010, and then after that didn’t come true it was gonna be 15% in 2015, and then then when that didn’t come true it was gonna be 20% in 2020. I’m srsly. And you know what, I think Mode Share for bikes was just about exactly 2% back in the day, just saying.
The SFMTA is frustrated with how much you ppl love your VC-subsidized UBER and Lyft rides, See?
NB: When your Transit Ridership Trends show a decline, talk about how much ridership grew. Hocus pocus:
More Orwellian stuff here – Traffic Fatalities are severely under counted because “Vision Zero deaths” do not equate with actual deaths in San Francisco County. The under count is something like ten this year. (People not at the SFMTA keep track of the numbers and issue a scorecard – that’s one way to keep track of reality.)
I thought that the SFMTA wanted to increase congestion all these years, and here they are against congestion. It doesn’t make sense. Yes the rise of congestion has come from UBER and Lyft, but it’s also come from the SFMTA’s recent policies. Which has had a greater effect? It seems about 50-50. And if auto speeds decline by 20%, is that a good thing or a bad thing according to the SFMTA? One can’t tell.
The fundamental role of PCO’s is to make money for the SFMTA. It’s odd that they don’t mention this factor at all, huh?
Vision Zero 2024 will never come true, but SFMTA ppl are compelled to pretend otherwise. (Oh and the Turk Street bike lane effort is garbage currently. I understand how a process can work, where first you produce garbage and then you fix things up over a period of years, but really, their efforts on Turk are currently garbage, sry. Combine that with increased stop times for bike riders on this stretch of Turk in particular and there you go.)
And what’s coming up in a year or so, $9 cable car rides and $3.25 bus fares? Sure, why not. “Lifeline” is $40-something? Why isn’t it free? a Fast Pass is $80-something? Why isn’t it $40-something? And while we’re on that, why isn’t MUNI free on weekends? It’s pretty much worthless then, so why not match the value of the service with the pricing, say, starting at 6:00 PM Fridays and going all the way to Sunday night? If the SFMTA still wants to charge for historic streetcars and for the cables cars, that’d be OK.
Look at this ridiculous population chart. Does it tell you that net population growth has decreased the past couple years? Oh yes it does! It shows you by not showing you – that’s why numbers (hard and fast or simply estimates) for 2017, 2018, 2019 not there. Hey, is there something wrong with the x-axis. Oh yes there is! Anyway, our SFMTA wants to make more money off of fewer car drivers, that’s what they’re saying here:
And hey, why isn’t the chief of the SFMTA / MUNI an elected position? Do you think that the voters of Frisco would elect the white male one-percenter what just got appointed? IDK, maybe not. Why don’t we have a vote on this matter, the next election or the one after or the one after, just some time in the near future. That could serve to legitimize the leadership of our failing SFMTA.
In closing:
