Director’s Report
- Celebrating the retirement of Melvyn Henry, Chief Safety Officer
- ParkMobile, a new parking app, is live on street parking meters
- ParkMobile is active in Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Cruz, and Walnut Creek
- ParkMobile will go live for court parking lots in near future
- ParkMobile has built-in reminders for expiring time and allows people to add time remotely
- Hotspot, another app, will go live in early 2026
- PayByPhone will sunset on 2026-06-30
- Board will hear a follow-up on convenience fees and budget by end of year
- Art installation at Rose Pak Chinatown Station
- Farewell to Breda light rail vehicles on Wed 2025-11-12
- Daniel Lurie spoke to SFMTA staff at all hands meeting on 2025-10-25
- SF Council of District Merchant Associations awarded Hank Wilson on parking collaboration in fine-tuning commercial parking spaces and adding more general metered parking
- Halloween
- spooky train
- trick or treat streets: 29 block parties with an easier application system
Item 11: Bayview Community Pathway Project
- This is a biking and walking path going through the Bayview, in response to complaints about unsafe driving speeds and making streets safer as part of the 2020 Bayview Community Based Transportation Plan.
- Continued with direction to staff to conduct more outreach and come back before a grant deadline expires in December
Item 12: Title VI Program Update
- Title VI is federal requirements for SFMTA to be fair and equitable on race and class dimensions in how it delivers transit service
- There is some interesting data like “social media use by native language”, “routes with a higher-than-average share of low-income or minority riders”, “minority block groups (higher proportion of racial minority than average)”, “low-income block groups”
- Discussion on Whatsapp and Wechat as communication modes for minority and non-English speaking people
- Board action: approved resolution affirming report that SFMTA does not discriminate transit service by race or income.
