San Francisco Transit Riders

What does a Biden admin mean for public transit and public transit funding? What's in store with Pete Buttegieg as Secretary of Transportation? Join us tomorrow at 6:00pm with our friends Streets for People and Seamless Bay Area for an insider's look with Scott Goldstein of Transportation for America. https://actionnetwork.org//what-does-a-biden-administratio

Join Scott Wiener and David Chiu at our year-end soiree tomorrow night, 5:00pm! - Submit your favorite Muni photo for fabulous prizes (one that you took)! - Celebrate our annual Volunteer Awards - we're so grateful for all who stepped up in this difficult year! - Celebrate all we accomplished this year, and look forward with our state leaders to what we're tackling in 2021.... Donate to support our work and get a t-shirt, a Market Street Railway calendar, or a limited edition Chris Arvin print! Register today! https://sftransitriders.salsalabs.org/sftreoyparty

It's December! This long, crazy, difficult year is almost over & we haven't seen you in too long. Join us next Thurs for a virtual hangout - let's celebrate what we can from this year, take a moment to appreciate each other and the public transit we love. Submit your favorite transit picture (your own, not someone else's!) for awards in various categories. Celebrate our awesome volunteers, who make our work possible.... Register today! https://sftransitriders.salsalabs.org/sftreoypar/index.html

At last night's forum, we heard real passion from Bay Area transit leaders about why transit is important, what it should look like, and what is standing in our way. HINT: IT'S FUNDING. We also heard that "culture eats policy for breakfast" - we need to build our strength as advocates, to shift the culture to support and celebrate transit! Our forum was part of a national #TransitIsTheFuture effort by transit advocates in cities across the country to call on Congress for the... $32B we need to #SaveTransit. We need to prevent layoffs, we need to protect our essential workers, and we need to maintain transit service. Together, we can shift the culture and save transit. transitjustice.org

Join us and local transit leaders as we talk about how we save transit, and build it back better in the Bay Area!

Looking forward to hearing SFCTA Director Tilly Chang, BART Board Director Lateefah Simon, SFMTA Director Jeff Tumlin and SFMTA Board member Amanda Eaken Thursday, talking about how we build the public transit we need for the future, starting from today.

Monday 5:30 PM! Bay Area Rapid Transit District 9 candidate forum, moderated by Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez! With BART ridership at 12% of pre-COVID levels, the agency faces tough decisions and strong, thoughtful leadership is more important than ever. Before COVID, BART was struggling with issues around fare policy, fare evasion and enforcement, ridership, and the eternal tug between strengthening core capacity versus expansion. Meet the candidates vying to represent central ne...ighborhoods in San Francisco and ask them your questions! Who will see BART through the challenges & lay the groundwork for the future? Register for the link: https://sftransitriders.salsalabs.org/bartcandidateforum

We had a blast with our Rider First Awards, hope you did too! This Transit Week we got a unanimous resolution passed by the Board of Supervisors supporting a strong recovery for public transit (thank you, @RafiForD8!). We brought together over 50 neighborhood, merchant, and advocacy groups from across the city to support our transit recovery plan.... And we got to come together, however digitally, to celebrate some transit heroes, and our 10 years of transit advocacy. Thank you to all our sponsors for your engagement and partnership: Salesforce, Google, IBEW Local 6, Spare the Air, Bay Area, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Spin, and Swiftly. We have our work cut out for us to make sure transit survives this crisis, and comes back better than ever. But we can do it, together. Join us! sftransitriders.org/transitweek #TransitIsEssential

Happy #TransitWeek2020! Thank you to all our sponsors for your engagement and partnership: Salesforce, Google, IBEW Local 6, Spare the Air, Bay Area, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Spin, Swiftly. Hope to see you all at our Rider First Awards at 5:00pm, to celebrate public transit heroes, and our 10th anniversary of transit ... advocacy! #SaveTransit #TransitIsEssential https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eMDKcdAgI&feature=youtu.be

Happy #TransitWeek2020! We wish we could celebrate in person, but we're bringing together transit riders and city leaders at a safe distance. It will take us all working together to make sure Muni comes back, and is better than ever. #TransitIsEssential ... http://sftransitriders.org/transitweek

Caltrain is a critical part of our transportation network, but the pandemic is jeopardizing its survival. Vote Yes On Measure RR Measure RR will rescue Caltrain, so that the thousands of nurses, grocery store workers, and other essential workers can get where they are needed most. It will improve transit connections to BART, Muni, SamTrans and VTA. Learn more: rescuecaltrain.org #RescueCaltrain #VoteYesOnRR

We're pleased to announce our team is growing, and thrilled to introduce our new Executive Director, Mark Cordes (pronounced CORD-ez)! As a Sunset resident, Mark is a rider of the N, 7, and 28 lines. Before joining our team, Mark worked around the Bay Area as a minister with churches trying to adapt to our evolving communities. Not a stranger to tough campaigns or the complexities of Bay Area politics, housing, and transit policies, he spent most of the last nine years leading the Trinity Berkeley Infill Development Program working to negotiate a deal with parishioners and a developer to build a mixed-use project on the church’s property. Learn more about the experience Mark brings and his vision for SF Transit Riders here: https://sf.streetsblog.org//san-francisco-transit-riders-/

What would it look like for Muni to truly serve communities across San Francisco? Join us for a discussion with community leaders Queen Vanessa Banks, Cristina Rubke, and Queena Chen about how we can center the needs of seniors, people with disabilities, and traditionally underserved communities.

What would it look like for Muni to truly serve communities across San Francisco? Join us on Monday, August 10, for a discussion with community leaders Queen Vanessa Banks, Cristina Rubke, and Queena Chen about how we can center the needs of seniors, people with disabilities, and traditionally underserved communities.

What: SAVE PUBLIC TRANSIT RALLY When: Tomorrow, Wednesday August 5, 11am pacific Where: Your apartment! It's a virtual rally. Register here https://bit.ly/SaveTransit Join Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Representatives Chuy Garcia (D-IL) and Jerry Nadler (D-NY), together with transit riders and representatives of transit systems from around the country for a nation-wide Save Public Transit Rally.... We need at least $32 billion in federal funding to keep transit moving through next year. Public transit systems are essential to our economy and communities. The time to act is now! #SaveTransit

Today is the last day of Membership Month and we're only $500 from our goal - Can you make one more donation to help get us there? Today is the last chance to have your donation matched by our board. That means you can give once and make double the impact for great transit in San Francisco. We need your help to rise to the scale of the crisis that Muni is facing. Please consider making a contribution today: https://sftransitriders.org/membership-month/

Join us for a conversation about the future of Muni with SFMTA Director Jeff Tumlin.

Today at 5:30: Don't miss a great conversation with Jeff Tumlin about the future of Muni. Bring your questions about the pandemic, how the agency is thinking about doing more with less, and what's next for Muni - both hard reality and hope.