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How People Traveled Through San Francisco in 2021
By Maia Moran
Earth Day is April 22 and a great time to think about changes we can make in our own lives to support the health of our planet. When it comes to climate change, one of the most meaningful actions we can take is to drive less and get around more by biking, walking and taking forms of public transportation like Muni. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in San Francisco, with personal driving accounting for 72% of the sector’s emissions. By comparison, Muni accounts for about 1% of GHG emissions in and out of the city.
But when it comes to driving less, the San Francisco Bay Area is going in the wrong direction. Public transit use fell by 11% between 2019 and 2021 and private automobile use increased by 13%, according to the results of the 2021 Travel Decision Survey. That’s why we’ve been working so hard to make transit, walking and biking more appealing and convenient with new transit lanes, better ventilation on Muni, protected bike lanes and more.
Travel Decision Survey
Once every two years, the SFMTA conducts a telephone survey of over 750 Bay Area residents to ask them questions about their daily travel patterns and how they get to destinations in and around San Francisco. Results from the 2021 Travel Decision Survey (TDS) indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has driven a shift away from our vision for a transit-first city. The survey allows us to understand whether people in San Francisco are traveling by “priority” modes (walking, biking and public transit). Priority modes are those encouraged by San Francisco’s long-standing transit-first policy, which seeks to improve the city’s economy, environment and quality of life. Trips by transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft, driving with others and driving alone are all categorized as “privately owned vehicle” modes and grouped into one category.
Key Findings
Using San Francisco County Transportation Agency data, the total number of anticipated daily trips decreased from 4.5 million in 2019 to 4.4 million in 2021, consistent with daily travel pattern shifts prompted by the pandemic such as more people working at home and fewer commuting to offices. Despite an agency goal of increasing travel by priority modes, the share for these trips fell from just under half (46%) in 2019 to just under two-fifths (38%) in 2021.
The most significant decrease in travel mode was by public transit, which fell 11% between 2019 and 2021. The most significant increase in travel mode was by private automobile use, including both driving with others (up 8%) and driving alone (up 5%). Walking and biking both had minor increases.
San Francisco residents still used priority modes twice as often as non-residents for trips within San Francisco. Respondents with a household income of $75,000 or less had the highest transit ridership, while a majority of those with incomes over $75,000 chose non-priority modes. Individuals identifying as women or non-binary were more likely to travel by privately owned vehicles than those identifying as men.
The Future of Travel
Many of the travel pattern changes revealed by the survey were likely a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which many people limited their non-essential travel and worked from home instead of commuting to an office.
But as the city recovers from the effects of the pandemic and travel begins to increase, we urgently need to educate Bay Area residents about how their travel decisions impact our environment. To meet San Francisco’s climate goals, including net zero emissions by the year 2040, it is critical that many of us shift from driving personal vehicles to taking public transit, walking, bicycling and using other “non-carbon” travel modes.
To encourage that shift, the SFMTA has improved the speed and reliability of our most popular bus lines by creating an unprecedented number of transit lanes. We introduced changes to make Muni more equitable. We recently increased the staff presence on Muni vehicles to deter crime and increase safety. We also upgraded our transit fleet HVAC systems, which now turn the air over once every minute. Earlier this month, we launched the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, and later this year the Central Subway extension to Chinatown will be open to one and all.
To complement transit use, we have created safe bicycling and walking routes throughout San Francisco. The city now boasts 42 miles of protected bike lanes and approximately 43 miles of Slow Streets where through traffic is limited. By lowering speed limits and completing Quick Build street improvements, we’ve made walking and bicycling safer and more comfortable.
Now, we need to make sure people in the San Francisco Bay Area know about and take advantage of these improvements.
The 2021 Travel Decision Survey report and results are available to download here.
Published April 19, 2022 at 10:32AM
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
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Celebrate Earth Day on San Francisco Streets!
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If you want a glimpse into how our city can become more resilient, sustainable, and connected, head out to San Francisco streets on Earth Day 2022! Across the city, San Francisco city leaders and residents are taking to the streets to chart a new future for the city—one that’s lighter on cars, and more invested in transit, active transportation, and community connections. All are welcome to join—here are a few ways to get involved:
Plan to bike, walk, or roll to school: The week leading up to Earth Day—April 18-21st—is Bike & Roll to School week! SF Bicycle Coalition has created a range of opportunities for schools that serve anyone from Kindergarten through 12th grade to get involved. Visit their website to learn more about becoming a Bike & Roll Champion and to pledge to participate in any of the events happening this week across San Francisco. It’s a great way to highlight safe, low-carbon, and fun ways to get to school each day!
Come out for a family-friendly Climate Ride: The SF Department of Environment and SF Bicycle Coalition will be hosting an educational bike ride on April 23 to showcase what San Francisco and its residents are doing to create a sustainable, low-carbon city. The route will highlight a few key safety projects that the SFMTA has helped initiate over the past few years, including car-free JFK Drive, the Sunset Neighborways and Slow Streets projects. The ride will meet near McLaren Lodge in Golden Gate Park and 10:00 am—hot chocolate will be served!—and will end at Ocean Beach around 12:30pm. City leaders will be present, and project representatives from across the city will offer insights and details about various projects along the route.
Clean up a Slow Street: Across the city, Refuse Refuse—a nonprofit dedicated to cleaning up SF Streets—is hosting cleanup events in partnership with KidSafe SF, SF Parks Alliance, and more on Slow Streets and neighborhood corridors! Visit the event webpage to find the nearest cleanup near you, and head out on April 23 to pick up supplies and beautify your neighborhood. Afterward, join neighbors from across the city for an afterparty on the Great Highway Park!
Find freedom from training wheels: On April 23, the SF Bicycle Coalition is hosting a Freedom from Training Wheels event on Minnesota Slow Street from 11 am to 2 pm. For parents of kids aged 2-5 who are ready to ditch the training wheels and try out a balance bike or even a pedal bike, this event is for you! SF Bicycle Coalition will provide the bikes and helmets (they’ll be sanitized in between uses) and patient instruction for your little one.
Published April 14, 2022 at 12:33PM
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
In-Person Bike and Roll Returns
By Christine Osorio
The SFMTA is pleased to announce that for the first time since 2019, the San Francisco Safe Routes to School program’s annual Bike & Roll to School Week is back as an in-person event! Whether they’re on a bike, scooter, wheelchair, or skateboard, Bike & Roll to School Week (or BR2SW) celebrates all students using healthy, sustainable transportation to get to school. This year’s celebration is April 18-22, at schools citywide.
Biking, rolling, and walking provides people of all ages with a sense of freedom and connection to their city. BR2SW encourages SF students to experience that through sustainable and joyful ways of getting around. With more people walking, biking, and rolling to school, pick-up and drop-off times are less congested with car traffic, and therefore safer and easier for everyone.
San Francisco Safe Routes to School is a partnership of city agencies and nonprofits, led by the SFMTA, that helps make walking and bicycling to school safer and more accessible for all San Francisco children and youth, and to increase the number of children who choose to walk, bicycle, take public transit, or join carpools.
There are many ways for families and school staff to get involved:
Excited to see your school participate? Register your school today! Each school’s celebration is organized by a local Bike Champion — a volunteer from the school community who’s excited to bring the joy of Bike & Roll to their students and families. San Francisco Safe Routes to School will provide you with everything you need to make it a great event.
Is your school already registered, or are you excited to just participate with your family? Pledge to bike or roll to school during the week! Everyone who pledges to participate will be entered into a drawing for great prizes, courtesy of Cleary Bikes and Sports Basement.
Interested in encouraging others? There are many ways to participate in BR2SW. Students can roll on bike, wheelchair, scooter, skateboard, walk, or even enter Bike & Roll Art Contest. All SFUSD students are invited to enter the art contest, in which students at every age level can win prizes courtesy of Blick Art Supplies. The grand prize winner will be featured on the BR2SW poster for 2023!
Bike & Roll to School Week is organized by San Francisco Safe Routes to School partner, the SF Bicycle Coalition.
Published April 12, 2022 at 08:14AM
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Monday, April 11, 2022
April 2022 Service Change Details
By Mariana Maguire
The SFMTA is restoring the 8AX Bayshore Express and 8BX Bayshore Express buses on weekdays mornings and evenings, starting April 18, 2022, to provide quicker trips from Visitacion Valley to downtown and stronger connections between Visitacion Valley, Outer Mission, Ingleside, City College and Chinatown. Additional Muni service changes, beginning Saturday, April 16, 2022, include:
- Extending the 56 Rutland to provide a more direct connection to Burton High School
- Supplementing the 30 Stockton, with additional buses on a 30 Stockton “short” route to reduce crowding and wait times from about 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and about 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends
- Changing the frequency of the 9R San Bruno Rapid from 10 to 12 minutes
These April service changes mark the second phase of implementation of the 2022 Muni Service Network plan.
In summer we expect to bring back additional routes that have been temporarily suspended since 2020 like the 2 Sutter (previously the 2 Clement), 10 Townsend and 21 Hayes, and modify existing routes like the 23 Monterey and 57 Parkmerced. See 2022 Muni Service Network for information. We will provide a more detailed description of the schedule as soon as it’s available.
Public feedback helped us prioritize bringing back routes and connections many communities rely on. Read more about what we heard from the public and how we incorporated feedback into the 2022 service plan.
What is keeping SFMTA from restoring more Muni service?
We want to restore Muni service as soon as possible. The key obstacle to restoring more Muni service is staff availability. Since fall 2021 the SFMTA has been hiring and training new cohorts of Muni operators to fill our staffing needs, and we continue to restore service at the pace of hiring.
We were short-staffed going into the pandemic and had to pause all hiring for 18 months. During that time some operators and key operations staff also left or retired, and more staff than usual have had to take time off to care for themselves or family members and loved ones impacted by the pandemic. We are also facing more retirements than previously anticipated.
Our hiring and training staff were also impacted and had to repeatedly postpone hiring and training activities. As a result of these and the related impacts of the Omicron surge, we’ve been bringing on new operators slower than we hoped, but we are still working to fill staffing gaps as quickly as possible.
We are committed to restoring pre-pandemic Muni service and are seeking new resources to help us restore, increase and improve service in 2023.
What do I need to know about riding Muni and COVID-19?
We’re excited to welcome you back to Muni, where the health of SFMTA employees and customers is a top priority. Since COVID-19 is primarily spread through the air, we understand the importance good air ventilation for protecting people’s health. The Muni fleet HVAC systems turn the air over once every minute. Fresh air is constantly being pulled in from the outside, and the air inside trains and buses is continuously filtered and recirculated. In addition, physical distancing is no longer required on Muni. On-vehicle capacity limits were officially lifted in June 2021.
When you ride Muni, there’s a high probability the person sitting next to you is vaccinated: 87% of San Francisco residents aged 5 and above are fully vaccinated. 68% of residents who are eligible for boosters (anyone age 12 and above) are boosted. Those are some of the highest vaccination rates in the U.S.
Even so, face masks are still required by federal law in Muni stations and vehicles, and Muni has a high mask compliance rate. Whenever the mask mandate on public transit is lifted, you can still wear a mask to protect yourself. One-way masking does work, especially when the mask is a surgical mask like the N95, KN95, KF94, FFP2, double mask or a cloth mask with a filter inside.
Looking Ahead
We expect to make our next round of service changes in the summer, when we continue implementing the approved 2022 Muni Service Network, restoring additional bus routes and increasing bus frequencies as we bring more operators onboard. Read more about the complete 2022 Muni Service Network plan.
Published April 11, 2022 at 02:36PM
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Exciting Changes Coming to San Francisco Taxis!
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Exciting Changes Coming to San Francisco Taxis!
A new way to hail a taxi is coming soon, San Francisco! Yesterday, our MTA Board of Directors approved an amendment to the pilot program to test upfront fares, which was approved back in September 2021. This amendment will now allow Taxi E-Hail app providers to dispatch trips that originate with third-party entities, which may offer upfront fares that are not based on taximeter rates. In other words, you’ll soon be able to pick up your smartphone and check the cost to your destination and book a ride via taxi with a few swipes.
Allowing taxi customers to select a flat rate advance fare is intended to improve customer service, enable customers to price shop among similar services and minimize meter anxiety that occurs when customers feel that the Taximeter rate is increasing beyond their expectation. The price flexibility is intended to increase the number of taxi trips and allow taxis to be more competitive in the for-hire transportation marketplace.
Background
On September 7, 2021, the SFMTA Board authorized the Director of Transportation to create the one-year Taxi Upfront Fare Pilot Program (Pilot) within six months, to test the concept of providing customers with a flat rate fare estimate through a Taxi E-Hail app via cellphone. Under the pilot, the customer will have the option of choosing the upfront fare or paying for the trip based on the taxi meter amount.
Since this approval, our staff has been working with taxi industry stakeholders to develop the Pilot program rules. During this process, both the YoTaxi E-Hail app and Flywheel E-Hail app requested that the SFMTA allow them to partner with Uber to dispatch taxi trips that originate with Uber based on Uber’s rates rather than the taximeter. The original intent of the metered fare system was to provide price certainty and protection to customers. The SFMTA and other taxi regulators around the world utilize the meter fare system to ensure a functioning taxi market in which customers and drivers have certainty that the fare is transparent and equally applied to all customers. Although the fares are standardized and posted in every cab as well as on sfmta.com, as the meter clicks up incrementally during the trip, riders may experience meter anxiety watching the fare increase based on time and distance, and some passengers may be confused about the additional fees for exiting the airport, fees for traveling long distances, and bridge tolls.
We updated the Taxi E-Hail requirements in mid-2021 to require functionality that customers have come to expect. Although Taxi E-Hail apps are required to provide a fare estimate, a taxi customer is not currently able to lock in that fare prior to taking the trip. The Pilot will allow this additional functionality and allow Taxi E-Hail apps the ability to offer customers an option to lock in the upfront fare. After today’s amendment was approved by the MTA Board, taxi customers will soon have the option of choosing the upfront fare through the Taxi E-Hail app, their trip may originate as an UberX trip and be provided by a taxi, or they may choose to request a cab through traditional phone dispatch or street hail and simply pay for the trip based on the meter amount.
We look forward to continued support of the taxi industry. Visit our website to check out all the ways the SFMTA is supporting this industry, and be sure to subscribe for updates on the launch of our Upfront Fare Pilot Program.
Published April 06, 2022 at 02:38PM
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