Please help us in meeting our fundraising goal to fund this year's advocacy efforts!

We're only 10% away from meeting our fundraising goal for our End-of-Year fundraising campaign. Your donation not only secures you a one-year membership with SFTR but also helps fund important SFTR campaigns and fund a sustainable and growing transit system in San Francisco. 

Please consider donating before the end of our campaign on Friday, January 9th. Your donation goes to empowering riders, voter education, and advocacy that keep our communities connected. Will you help us continue to grow and protect transit that keeps San Francisco moving? 

Your donation could fund:

A community space to convene and power build

We envision a dedicated space for staff, board, members, and riders to meet regularly and organize future advocacy efforts. This will be our creative space, which we can design, maintain, and utilize together. This can be a space for membership meetings, member-led projects, meetings with our city’s leaders, new member meetings, storage for advocacy materials, and more.

Voter education for upcoming regional and local ballot measures

2026 is going to be a big year for transit funding at the polls. We want to ensure all of our members and local riders are informed of each of the ballot measures that will be available in the coming year. We plan to conduct voting education through membership meetings, collaborative events with other CBOs, and informative graphics that you can share with others.

More membership opportunities and increased staff capacity

We hope to continue finding opportunities to provide our members with leadership opportunities. SFTR hopes to one day establish member leads who understand the organization’s mission and values and complete official SFTR training, to represent SFTR at in-person events, tabling opportunities, meetings with our city’s leaders, member-led meetings, and interviews with local publications.

Take Action:

Finish the Red Transit-only Lanes On Ocean Ave

SFMTA’s plan to paint transit lanes on Ocean Avenue has been delayed due to pushback from businesses on Ocean, according to this article from The Ingleside Light.  The project was approved in 2024 and is almost to completion, but the merchant’s association is pushing back against the red lanes because it will reduce car traffic to one lane in each direction.

The red lanes are needed to improve the travel time of the K-Ingleside by 10-20% and provide a layer of safety for pedestrians in an already high-injury area from traffic collisions. 

Letting the project backslide will waste the investment made in the project while endangering lives in a high-injury area due to vehicle collisions and unsafe speeds.  To show support for the Red Lanes, you can use this Action Network campaign or this guide to send in your own personal message to the decision makers.

For more information on the project, visit:  https://www.sfmta.com/projects/k-ingleside-rapid-project 

SFMTA Budget Updates

The SFMTA Board of Directors has started discussions on the upcoming SFMTA Budget FY 2026-2028.  

On December 16, 2025, SFMTA and the Board of Directors discussed “Enterprise Revenue and Fare Policy,” where SFMTA recommended the following:

• Decommissioning of Muni Mobile to save $1.6 Million
• Increasing Cable Care tickets to $15
• Discontinuing the 15-cent clipper card discount and indexing fares, increasing to $3.10 in by FY27-28, making the Muni single ride price one of the most expensive in the country.
• Implementing Fare Capping, where after 2-rides, it becomes a day pass.
• Revenues from parking included 10% increase in late penalties; a $0.25 meter rate increase in FY27-28, and various other fees.  However, they also proposed a decrease in fines for Curbing Wheels, parking Outside the Lines, repairing a Vehicle on Street, and Display Permit on Different Vehicles.  

For more details on that meeting, view the SFMTA's Presentation.

Take action by filling out this survey, submitting your feedback to help the SFMTA make better-informed decisions as they plan their two-year budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026-27 and FY 2027-28. All survey responses are anonymous.

The following are the upcoming scheduled discussions on the budget and specific topics:

SFTR will be present at all these meetings and will schedule a meeting with members in 2026 to discuss what SFMTA should prioritize on this upcoming 2-year budget.  

Updates on SFTR's work through the Better And Safer Streets (BASS) Collaborative

Bayview Community Pathway

On December 2, 2025, the SFMTA board of directors approved the plan and will help make the streets safer and provide transit-boarding islands on Mendell St from Cargo Way to Newcomb Ave, then from Newcomb Aven and Mendell to Lane St. then on Lane and Newcomb Ave to Underwood Avenue, then Underwood to Keith St; then from Keith St and Underwood to Carroll Avenue. 

For more information on the project, visit: https://www.sfmta.com/projects/bayview-community-pathway 

Fillmore Street and Safety Project

The 22-Fillmore, one of the busiest Muni lines, is slated to be improved under the Muni Forward, and SFMTA is looking for input using this survey.  If you use the 22-Fillmore and/or live along the project segment (Fillmore Street from Duboce and Church to Pine st), please fill out the survey!

For more information, visit:  https://www.sfmta.com/projects/fillmore-street-transit-and-safety-project 

SF Transit Riders, in partnership with Walk SF and SF Bike under the Better And Safer Streets (BASS) Collaborative, will be monitoring these projects from beginning to end. If you live in the Bayview or Western Addition and are interested in being part of the collaborative effort, please contact SFTR's Outreach & Organizing Manager, Jaime Viloria, at [email protected].

Here's a new blog post from our member, Andrew!

Preface of a Motivation

By Andrew Rogge

"Our local transit agencies must consider more closely how small service choices and policies can have drastic impacts on individuals with disabilities and other challenges.

Sensitivity training, transit community ambassadors, and more mindful planning can combat the prevalence of disability invisibility*. Reaching out, gathering, discussing, enacting. These might seem abstract, but with compassionate planning, these are not such radical dreams. Just think of someone you know and love, consider another person’s travails, and it all shifts from talking points to desires."

Read the full piece here.

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