Tumlin's bus is pulling out, but his capable director of transit, Julie Kirschbaum, will fill his place in an interim role - and, perhaps, far longer than that.
Things are bad. Real bad - Frustratingly, the SFMTA's major problem isn't that transit in San Francisco is crappy… Ridership is steadily improving and, on some lines, exceeds pre-pandemic levels.
But make no mistake: When you eviscerate Muni, you eviscerate San Francisco. This will affect your life, even if you haven't set foot on a bus or light-rail vehicle for years.
There will be no downtown recovery without functional transit. You could run the Valencia bike lane through the businesses of the aggrieved merchants, and it would have a trivial impact compared to a transit-bereft downtown where BART shuts down at sunset.
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