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SFMTA Approves Merchant-Driven, ‘Holistic’ Plan for West Portal

SFMTA board again fails in its role to put transit, safety, and city wide interests above parochial politics

July 17, 2024

Call to Action: Demand a Safe West Portal

The San Francisco Transit Riders wants YOU to urge the SFMTA Board of Directors to approve stronger West Portal safety and transit improvements The post Call to Action: Demand a Safe West Portal

July 16, 2024

Advocates React to Watered-Down West Portal Plan

The political 'compromise' still allows drivers to cross over the railway junction, assuring future delays and maintaining extensive conflict areas between motorists, transit vehicles, and pedestrians

July 1, 2024

Commentary: SFMTA Board Must Reject Unsafe, Driver-Centric ‘Final’ West Portal Plan

A family died. If that isn't enough to stop putting politics above safety, then the SFMTA board should be dissolved

July 1, 2024

Emails Confirm West Portal ‘Welcoming’ Committee Was Stacked from the Start

Diego Cardoso de Oliveira and Matilde Ramos Pinto weren't from West Portal. If they'd survived last March's crash, even they would have been barred from the 'West Portal Welcoming Committee,' according to the selection 'criteria'

June 7, 2024

West Portal Committee Members Named

The committee is comprised mostly of the same merchants who have prevented Muni and safety improvements all along

May 13, 2024

Commentary: Merchants Are Getting People Killed

The number one local obstruction to curbing traffic violence is local commerce and merchant groups.

May 1, 2024