San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

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They will be in 33 locations from early next year as part of bid to reduce collisions in city

Quick-build projects are in Tenderloin district where pedestrians are frequently hit

Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg is allocating funds to projects in 31 US states

ConnectSF collaboration seeks projects to ensure sustainable transportation in city

Ridership is way down and the government is urged to find more money to help

Glimpses are beginning to emerge of how European and US cities plan to change the way people travel.

An all-electric bus fleet is coming to San Francisco by 2035. The commitment stems from an agreement between mayor Mark Farrell and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which operates Muni – the city’s public transit system. Muni manages a fleet of zero-emission electric trolley buses and a fleet of low- emission electric hybrid vehicles. The SFMTA is rolling out new electric buses with higher capacity battery systems that supply power for its vehicles along several hybrid routes.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which manages all surface transportation in the city, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), has launched a first of its kind Vision Zero education campaign targeting people who ride motorcycles. The campaign is funded by a US$188,267 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all transportation in the city, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), today announced that it will pilot a new smartphone application (app) for purchasing and using transit fares across the Muni system. With the new app, riders will no longer be required to have exact change or rely on fare vending machines to ride. The pilot is expected to begin in the summer of 2015. The SFMTA will be partnering with GlobeSherpa, a leading prov