SF Mayor Announces Major Expansion of Muni Light Rail Fleet

[marmar]

Mayor Edwin M. Lee on Jan. 13 joined by members of the Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced a major expansion of Muni’s fleet by purchasing an additional 40 Siemens light rail vehicles to improve reliability and safety. In addition to the 175 Muni next generation of light rail vehicles approved last year, this purchase will allow Muni to address capacity needs as San Francisco’s population and Muni ridership continue to grow, further improve transit reliability, and bolster the economy since Siemens will manufacture the vehicles in their Sacramento facility with the first cars operational by the end of 2016.

“Today, we are accelerating improvements to Muni by expanding San Francisco’s light rail fleet while we also replace the entire fleet with new, state of the art Siemens vehicles,” said Lee. “Expanding the fleet will make our City’s public transportation system more reliable, safer, easier to maintain, and ready to meet the demands of a growing City and growing ridership.”

The SFMTA Board of Directors voted last week to proceed with the contract option to purchase these 40 new light rail vehicles (LRV). Anticipated final actions by the SFMTA Board and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in the coming weeks will secure funding. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.masstransitmag.com/press_release/12034431/sf-mayor-announces-major-expansion-of-muni-light-rail-fleet

[shenmue]

1. Yay

I love public transportation. If only lived in a state with a reasonable governor.

[KamaAina]

2. Now can we get a line out Geary

to the Richmond District? Those 38 buses are heinous, even by Muni standards.