Three Muni bus routes will see a reduction in service starting Feb. 1 as San Francisco’s transportation agency faces a budget crisis that could exceed $300 million by the start of the 2026–27 fiscal year.
For the last 18 months, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has been addressing service changes by removing some bus frequencies from one route and adding them to another route to resolve crowding and new travel patterns. Now, the agency is starting to reduce frequencies without adding service elsewhere. Transit officials described these as “modest” changes to better match service with revenue resources.
Between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the SFMTA will reduce frequencies on the 24-Divsadero, 38-Geary, and 43-Masonic. The SFMTA wrote on its website that the three routes do not have “significant crowding” during midday but will monitor the routes after the changes take effect…