Help! SFMTA is Devastating Vibrant Neighborhood Corridors: Enough is ENOUGH

Are you a San Francisco resident, commuting worker or business owner concerned about SFMTA's overreach? Frustrated with SFMTA ignoring stakeholder concerns and issues like unsafe transit, reduced street parking and roads that are now more dangerous and confusing to everyone who uses them? How about the changes to traffic lanes that result in increased congestion? Or newly closed and redesigned streets that constrain business deliveries and access for the elderly and disabled?

December 1st was the last straw for Valencia Street. Business is down 30% - 50% since May due to the dangerous center bike lane and removal of seventy parking spaces. Amado’s is yet another closure on the street and struggling small business owners are done: they demand the resignation of Jeffrey Tumlin. Read here.

Unfortunately, like Valencia Street, many business corridors across the City have suffered from SFMTA's imposition of expensive street changes that the vast majority of residents, workers and business owners deem unnecessary (at best) and destructive (at worst):

Ocean Avenue
Polk Street
Hayes Street
and the list goes on and on…

Merchants from each neighborhood have begged SFMTA to respect small businesses and been dismissed. It is time for all common sense people in SF to band together - it is the only way we can impact transit plans solutions that work for the the majority of people who live and work in the city.

The small businesses that make SF amazing and unique are crying out for help to halt SFMTA’s negative impact on diverse and vital business corridors, livelihoods, local jobs, and the very character of our neighborhoods.

It has to stop.

What can you do?

1) Most important: Send the email below.

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Message to Mayor Breed, Mr. Tumlin, Board of Supervisors and SFMTA Board

Dear Mayor Breed,&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;Valencia Street is the last straw.  This is an emergency that you need to get under control. SFMTA runs rampant and unchecked damaging San Francisco neighborhoods and business corridors, and it is destroying our beloved City.  Jeff Tumlin is an unelected bureaucrat accountable to no one, and he is imposing HIS dysfunctional and biased vision on the streets of San Francisco to the detriment of the vast majority of residents, commuting workers and businesses. It is time: Tumlin must be fired or forced to resign.&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;Here is just a small sample of merchant corridors, already struggling from the pandemic, where closures are happening or have happened along streets that SFMTA destroyed all while turning a deaf ear to the concerns voiced in public forums about their plans in these corridors: &#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;Valenica Street&#13;&#10;Van Ness Avenue&#13;&#10;Market Street&#13;&#10;Geary Boulevard&#13;&#10;Taraval Street&#13;&#10;Ocean Avenue&#13;&#10;Polk Avenue&#13;&#10;Hayes Street&#13;&#10;and the list goes on and on…&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;This is a crisis: SF is losing too many beloved neighborhood institutions in once-vibrant business corridors, the unique areas that define SF. You must act NOW to stop this.&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;SFMTA’s job is to make movement of people and goods as friction-free and safe as possible. ALL modes of transportation, including driving (what the vast majority of San  Franciscans do).  Tumlin has made it clear that he wants to end car use.  If you support him I expect that you will only take public transit and bike from now on, to all of your work-related, personal and public engagements. You are currently chauffeured, in a CAR. Don’t be a hypocrite - either stop that or stand up for the rest of us. &#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;Pre-pandemic ridership on Muni averaged over 700,000 per day, since the pandemic ridership averages less than 400,000 per day. But instead of making MUNI safer, more reliable and more attractive to riders, SFMTA is focused on forcing its anti-car ideology while prepping yet another bond measure to “save MUNI”.  No thanks.&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;City Hall elevates itself above citizens. It is beyond selfish for public servants to have parking spaces and drive where they need to go, yet dictate to the taxpaying citizens that our goals and needs should be met in a different way.&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;We, the silent majority of over 490,000 registered vehicles in SF, want ALL transportation to be facilitated and are coming together to fight the counterproductive, biased SFMTA and Bike Coalition agenda. Tumlin and the unchecked SFMTA will be an election issue next year. The monopoly on power is ending.&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;We insist that you replace Tumlin with an SFMTA director who is willing to listen and serve the needs of ALL San Franciscans&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;Enough is ENOUGH: SFMTA’s destruction of small businesses and the overall quality of life in SF will not be tolerated any longer.&#13;&#10;

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