fc188 ph Apocalypse Is a Motorcycle Magazine That Is Utterly UnexpectedSan Francisco’s next mayor is staying mum about who should next lead its transportation agency. Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie will carry significant influence over whom the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s board appoints as its next transportation director following Jeffrey Tumlin’s announcement Thursday that he will be stepping down from the position when his contract expires at the end of the year. Lurie, who nominates new members to the agency’s seven-member board of directors, did not signal where The City should go from here following Tumlin’s departure. “I appreciate Mr. Tumlin’s service to San Francisco and look forward to working with the next MTA leader to advance a world class transportation system,” Lurie told The Examiner in a statement Friday. Tumlin, a sustainability advocate who helmed the agency through an unprecedented economic shortfall following the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Thursday he will leave his post atop the agency that oversees The City’s ground transportation. Those efforts include biking, traffic and parking infrastructure, as well as public-transit systems such as the cable-car and Muni lines. SFMTA Director of Transit Julie Kirschbaum will serve as the acting director of transportation beginning Jan. 1. The mayor is typically consulted when the board appoints a new transportation director. Lurie will need to nominate a new SFMTA board member when he takes office next month following the departure of board chair Amanda Eaken. Outgoing Mayor London Breed appointed Eaken, and she was key in appointing Tumlin in 2019. That new board member, then, will presumably have significant sway in determining the agency’s next transportation director. There is no timeline for when Tumlin’s longterm successor will be named, according to SFMTA officials. Tumlin called the serving in the position the greatest honor of my life.” “I’m extremely proud of what the SFMTA has accomplished during my tenure,” Tumlin said in a statement. “While we’ve faced many challenges over the past five years, we’ve also made historic progress.” Tumlin did not cite a specific reason for stepping aside. Formerly an executive at a sustainable transportation engineering and planning firm, Tumlin during his SFMTA tenure pushed policies that would incentivize San Franciscans to walk or bike and keep their cars at home. The City aims to be carbon-neutral — meaning it produces net-zero carbon emissions — by 2040. “Jeff has been a leader in building infrastructure, improving Muni operations, and making the hard decisions necessary for our city as we grow,” Breed said in a statement. “Change can be hard, but Jeff was not afraid to make those decisions necessary to allow people to move safely and efficiently across this city,” she said. Tumlin led the proliferation of The City’s Slow Streets program , a pandemic-era plan which limited car traffic on certain streets in order to promote recreational neighborhood activity, events and increase pedestrian safety. He also championed the fight to install a controversial center bike lane on a portion of Valencia Street and permanently shut down a busy section of Market Street and the JFK promenade to car traffic . Tumlin helped launch the biking and rolling plan , the agency’s blueprint to revamp The City’s biking infrastructure for the first time in nearly 30 years. But those projects also made Tumlin an enemy for many San Franciscans. The policies drew the ire of many local business owners, who argued the measures would drive down business amid an already-slow post-pandemic recovery. Tumlin’s SFMTA stint up being largely focused on pulling the SFMTA from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic — which briefly shut Muni down and caused ridership to plummet — that sent the agency into a historic financial hole. Collectively, the Bay Area’s three primary transit operators — BART, Muni and Caltrain — face a $700 million deficit in 2026 , nearly half of which SFMTA will take on alone. Weekday Muni ridership in November was down to 68% of the average from the same month in 2019, according to agency data, although it was still higher than every November since 2020. Tumlin and other transit leaders have warned that unless they receive additional support in the coming months, they will be forced to make wide-ranging service cuts . Last month, the SFMTA announced its plans to reduce the frequency of Muni buses and stops on a handful of lines early next year. Further service cuts are expected in June. Tumlin also cautioned that some cable-car lines might eventually be on the chopping block, a possibility Lurie immediately shot down. He called the historic vehicles“untouchable” in a social-media post last month. “The SFMTA is a challenging department to run, and I want to thank Jeff for leading this Department and serving our city through the difficult years of the pandemic and after to get us where we are today,” Breed said. California State Sen. Scott Wiener Muni has been “better than ever” said under Tumlin’s leadership. “Service is faster and more reliable due to Jeff’s focus on making Muni work, and as a result Muni rider satisfaction surveys are at historic highs,” Weiner said. According to SFMTA data, major subway delays are down 76% and short delays have fallen 89% since Tumlin took office in 2019. Muni also recorded its highest satisfaction from riders since it started issuing an annual survey, with 72% of riders rating Muni as excellent or good in the 2023 iteration. Under Tumlin’s watch, The City has installed 75 miles of transit lanes and more than 100 miles of overall transit priority improvements, the agency said. “San Francisco is one of the safest larger cities in the U.S. for walking and biking,” Tumlin said. “And we have one of the strongest paratransit programs in the country. There is still far more to be done but I have full faith that our talented and highly motivated staff and leadership, working alongside city and state partners, will shepherd the agency into a successful new chapter.”

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Musk says US is demanding he pay penalty over disclosures of his Twitter stock purchases DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk says the Securities and Exchange Commission wants him to pay a penalty or face charges involving what he disclosed — or failed to disclose — about his purchases of Twitter stock before he bought the social media platform in 2022. In a letter, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro tells the outgoing SEC chairman, Gary Gensler, that the commission’s demand for a monetary payment is a “misguided scheme” that won’t intimidate Musk. The letter also alleges that the commission reopened an investigation this week into Neuralink, Musk’s computer-to-human brain interface company. The SEC has not released the letter. Nor would it comment on it or confirm whether it has issued such a demand to Musk. Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is pushing toward a vote on legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began the process on Thursday for a final vote on the bill, known as the Social Security Fairness Act. It would eliminate policies that currently limit Social Security payouts for roughly 2.8 million people. The legislation has passed the House. The bill would add more strain on the Social Security Trust funds, which are already estimated to be unable to pay out full benefits beginning in 2035. The measure would add an estimated $195 billion to federal deficits over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Saudi Arabia banned film for 35 years. The Red Sea festival is just one sign of the industry's rise JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — “My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia’s decades-long cinema ban. Eight years later, the landscape for film in the kingdom looks much different. And the star of “My Driver and I” now has an award. Roula Dakheelallah was named the winner of the Chopard Emerging Saudi Talent award at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Thursday. Both the award and the glitzy festival itself are signs of Saudi Arabia’s commitment to shaping a new film industry. The reopening of cinemas in 2018 after 35 years marked a cultural turning point for Saudi Arabia. Trump offers support for dockworkers union by saying ports shouldn't install more automated systems WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is offering his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports. He posted on social media Thursday that he met with union leaders and that any further “automation” of the ports would harm workers. He wrote that the “amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers.” The International Longshoremen’s Association has until Jan. 15 to negotiate a new contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies. The Maritime Alliance says the technology will improve worker safety and strengthen our supply chains, among other things. IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS leadership on Thursday announced that the agency has recovered $4.7 billion in back taxes and proceeds from a variety of crimes. The announcement comes under the backdrop of a promised reckoning from Republicans who will hold a majority over both chambers of the next Congress and have long called for rescinding the tens of billions of dollars in funding provided to the agency by Democrats. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said improvements made to the agency will help the incoming administration and new Republican majority congress achieve its goals of administering an extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Unique among 'Person of the Year' designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine Donald Trump got something this year that no other person designed Time magazine's Person of the Year had ever received. He got a fact-check of claims that the president-elect made in the interview accompanying the magazine's piece. Trump earned the recognition of the year's biggest newsmaker for the second time, also winning it in 2016 the first time he was elected president. But in a piece described as a “12-minute” read, Time called into question more than a dozen statements Trump made when speaking to the magazine's reporters, on issues like border size, autism and crowd size at a rally. Time said it has fact-checked other interviews in the past, but not for this annual feature. OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship' A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker’s ongoing conversion into a for-profit company. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year. Musk has since escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. OpenAI is filing its response Friday. 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