An effort to split up San Francisco’s biggest transit agency is being pushed to the backburner in favor of a compromise move providing more oversight.
In the wake of recent controversial decisions by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, two city supervisors introduced a charter amendment in December to split up the agency into two parts — one that manages streets and parking and another that manages Muni buses and trains.
The charter amendment to split the SFMTA has been moved from the June ballot to the November ballot, Safai told the San Francisco Examiner, and is now being treated as a contingency plan should the appeal process not work out.
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