Commentary
Proposition A is a bond measure with the spurious title of “MUNI Reliability and Street Safety,” yet it fails to require that the money go to any specific transit programs or priorities.
Instead, it delivers an untethered blank check into the hands of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s management—the same team that brought San Francisco the delays, cost overruns, and failures of the Chinatown Central Subway, the Better Market Street Project, the rehabilitation of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, and multiple other fiascoes.
Proposition A offers nothing in the way of “safety” for commuters targeted in incidents of hate or violence, as sold by the proponents, and few actual MUNI transit improvements….