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  1. SFMTA continues to engineer GRIDLOCK on streets by taking away lanes and parking and then they complain that the streets are too congested and need to spend millions more on “Transit only” lanes to speed up MUNI.

    What else has SFMTA planners done for Taxpayers since 1999? For starters they increased their spending from $350 Million to over a Billion dollars a year! Next, they increased our property taxes and our rents by passing a half dozen transportation bonds, then they inflated MUNI’s on time performance figures and paid themselves bonuses. The exorbitant costs of the these wasteful “street improvement” projects are getting passed on to residents in rent and tax increases.

    SFMTA planners wont admit that that their plans aren’t working; it’s those stupid commuters, truckers, and other travelers who should be riding bikes and transit instead of driving. San Francisco is now rated the third worst in the country for parking the second worst for driving. Muni delivers less than 98.5% of scheduled service and has never met 85% of on time performance.

    The “big thinkers” at the SFMTA are working hard to make taxes and living costs so expensive, sensible people will leave or forced to leave to survive. Its time to FIRE the incompetence at the SFMTA beginning with Director Ed Reiskin.

  2. Last I checked only six supervisors are needed to put a charter amendment on the ballot. This is a welcome development in a situation that is rapidly turning into a disaster for many residents and merchants who are lashing out at the Mayor and Supervisors. Plausible deniability is not protecting them from the public anger. This is the year of discord and San Francisco officials are reacting by giving the voters a lot of options to shift the balance of power. The voters should take this opportunity to do just that.

    • Sorry about the confusion. I was trying to say that after the committee approved the charter amendment, it goes to the entire Board of Supervisors for approval. Not that it takes all 11 supervisors to place it on the ballot.

  3. The biggest problem in SF politics is that it’s a circus where a noisy minority gets to grind decisions to a halt without actually representing the people. Yeah, adding more cooks in the kitchen will help…

  4. No way – this will just allow a vocal minority even more influence than they deserve. SFMTA already does plenty of community outreach. It’s important that people on the SFMTA board are able to exercise vision rather than bending to the whims of a few backward looking people.