Here's a prediction I think I can make fairly safely: Come November, SF will vote to fix Muni, not to increase the number of parking spaces.
San Francisco voters will be faced with an important choice in November: Continue the city's decades-old policy that favors public transit over the private automobile, or reverse course and promote the interests of motorists.
On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors put a measure on the ballot that supporters say would help fix Muni, the troubled but popular system with almost 700,000 riders a day. A separate measure, which qualified through the signature-gathering process, would increase the city's parking. But voters can't have it both ways. Even if both measures receive a majority of the vote, only one can take effect.It's an election year battle for a city obsessed with its transportation issues, whether it's the safety of bike riders and their monthly Critical Mass rides, banning cars from Golden Gate Park, tearing down the Central Freeway or Muni's reliability.
"This election is going to be the moment of truth for San Francisco," said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, a civic think tank that endorses pro-transit policy. "It's so philosophically rich, a real fork in the road."
And speaking of SF, this map is stunning.
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