Transportation in San Francisco Bay Area is becoming more harder and overwhelming for people, including health and safety reasoning measures for people to feel safe and healthy on bay area roadways. The latest Bay Area Council 2014 Polling survey indicates 71% of residents in San Francisco Bay Area feels transportation and traffic crisis is at high level and needs attention. The other survey indicates traffic congestion in San Francisco is number two and Los Angeles traffic congestion is number 1 statewide, also including metropolitan regional areas within major cities.

The San Francisco waterfront areas with gracious natural sight seeing views are wonderful and relaxing, and San Francisco residents, tourists, working-class people, etc. wants to preserve including bike lanes. San Francisco is taking a lead in our environmental way of preservation and providing all people opportunities, to enjoy the city in many ways and means of support, trying to satisfy everyone by all means of transportation including riding a bike.

A person jumped to death in a suicide attempt to end his life this past Wednesday, and creating public conversations about suicidal prevention at the new bay bridge in San Francisco bay. "The man jumped as soon as he looked at the CHP officer who tried to help him," said Mike Ferguson, CHP spokesperson. Planning for Golden Gate Bridge to have a suicidal prevention net has been approved including $76 million funding to make it happen, and implementation plan for the prevention net is taking place for initial stages.

The new San Francisco 49ers Levi's Stadium is planning to open next month in August with a ribbon cutting officiating the stadium opening, and traffic impact to and from the stadium after stadium games and other events have been an issue of concern. This traffic concern has been for people living in the neighborhood stadium areas, including some business traffic during working hours, relating to working-clsss people commuting to and from work during stadium games.

The liberal city of San Francisco has ways to get things done, even calling on former mayor Willie Brown for assistance, of bringing people together in a "trustful approach" between Muni Operators Union and SFMTA administration. Of course, former mayor Willie Brown gets the credit and politically he has connections of knowing how to get things done, with the knowledge of who and what is involved in negotiations, especially union membership contracts with governmental agencies.

San Francisco is a liberalism city with their own way of making things happen for people, including local governmental liberal ways of operation, and that's partly why MTA (Municipal Transportation Agency) is in the process of generating city parking meters to become more convenient for commuting motorists. San Francisco MTA department personnel is upgrading parking meters to become "smart meters" where parking meter payments are convenient and accessible for people, and the department have already made changes to some local district parking meters.

The proposed shuttle fees picking up and dropping off people in San Francisco fees may increase, because activists in this matter feels that technology booming in San Francisco displaces city residents and some business. The proposed fee of $1 per stop every day is part of the pilot project, however, after further discussions and determinations, it shows that shuttle fees increase to $3.55 is necessary to cover all appropriate costing.

As noted previously in one of our international media network posting, transportation is an essential need for San Francisco residents and working-class people. Therefore, public parking in San Francisco is a necessity and opening doors for technology innovative ways and means of support for people, and Monkey Parking is one of those opening doors. However, recently San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, issued a cease-and-desist letter to Monkey Parking mobile app co-founding CEO, Paolo Dobrowolny, sharing the mobile app violates local legislation and needs to cease operation.

The Alameda County transportation sales tax is in the hands of voters during upcoming elections in November, and providing an opportunity for people to share how they feel about the transportation sales tax measure. The voters will either approve or disapprove the proposed measure for transportation improvements in Alameda County, and county Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the plan for transportation improvements throughout the whole county.

The San Francisco Bay Area local government agencies united to set a leadership role, and taking control of local environmental climate by purchasing electric vehicles for local governmental usage. The collaboration of governmental agencies through Bay Area Climate Collaborative purchased 90 electric vehicles, with assistance of 2.8 million dollars grant from MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission).