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What San Francisco looks like with Muni cuts: Traffic nightmares and no buses after 9 p.m.,
San Francisco Chronicle, 1/30/26
Transportation leaders in San Francisco have released the most complete and sobering picture to date of how transit in the city would look if voters reject a pair of tax ballot measures in November.
Cable cars would be suspended. Up to 20 bus routes would be cut. Regular service would end at 9 p.m. each day, leaving fewer transportation options for people who work swing shifts, or for anyone seeking to go out at night.
With COVID emergency funds exhausted, SFMTA is confronting a $307 million deficit that could swell to $430 million by Fiscal Year 2030. To fill that hole the agency would have to slash about a quarter of transit service unless the public approves a bailout.
Traffic, which is already miserable, would slow to a crawl. Restaurant workers, security guards, or night nurses in hospital wards would all struggle to get to their jobs. (An SFMTA spokesperson said the agency will still offer hourly owl service between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m. daily.) A still struggling downtown economy could crater, as would the city's essential services.
More... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-sf-looks-like-with-muni-cuts-traffic-nightmares-and-no-buses-after-9-p-m/ar-AA1VkdQj
Cable cars would be suspended. Up to 20 bus routes would be cut. Regular service would end at 9 p.m. each day, leaving fewer transportation options for people who work swing shifts, or for anyone seeking to go out at night.
With COVID emergency funds exhausted, SFMTA is confronting a $307 million deficit that could swell to $430 million by Fiscal Year 2030. To fill that hole the agency would have to slash about a quarter of transit service unless the public approves a bailout.
Traffic, which is already miserable, would slow to a crawl. Restaurant workers, security guards, or night nurses in hospital wards would all struggle to get to their jobs. (An SFMTA spokesperson said the agency will still offer hourly owl service between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m. daily.) A still struggling downtown economy could crater, as would the city's essential services.
More... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-sf-looks-like-with-muni-cuts-traffic-nightmares-and-no-buses-after-9-p-m/ar-AA1VkdQj
Meanwhile, in the Twin Cities, they are expanding service.