our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we starting to gear

. >> well i will let do you want to talk about the jeff tumlin to talk about this. sure. >> thank you. as you know we got word left week about what the closure impacts would be of each of the events. since then we have been busy with communication team getting the word out. the first place i direct you to is our website. sfmta..com/ap ec weave update daily as now information come in. we are doing the work truly centering communities. we were out in china town last week presenting and hearing from community about what do they need in order to make sure this all of their needs have been met. we are dog this w in terms of updating our planning and resolve details. then getting this information out to community. on our website you can sign up for specific transportation related alerts. and you can use 311 and the city website in order to provide the team with input about things we may have missed. >> yes. so there will be signage and we are grateful that the city call for voltories was woild low successful. we will be the beneficiary of men of the excess volunteers who

. >> reporter: we spoke with jeff tumlin, the director of transportation to get clarity >> coming into san francisco, take muni, b.a.r.t, cal tran or the ferries. a fun time to be in san francisco as long as you ever not trying to drive through south and market. >> there are going to be street closures. there will be two freeway off-ramps closed that week. the 5th street offramp from the bay bridge as well as the 4th street off-ramp from u.s. 101. and, portions of mission, howard, folsom will be closed and the streets atop knob hill >> if you are using public transportation >> we will be running frequent shuttle trains between powell street station and chinatown to make sure that people can still easily get into and out of chinatown. >> reporter: the concern about checkpoints, pay attention to this map. the pedestrian check points will be located within the secure zone at huntington park, folsom and third and howard and fourth street and mission. forget about street parking if you live in the area. >> we have plenty of available capacity at mt a garages. >> a lot of information she nev

. >> reporter: so we spoke with jeff tumlin, sfma's director of transportation. >> if you're coming into san francisco, take muni, b.a.r.t., caltrain or the ferries. actually it will be a fun time to be in san francisco so long as you're not trying to drive through south of market. >> reporter: he tells me there are going to be some street closures. >> there will be two of the freeway off ramps closed that week. the fifth street off ramp from the bay bridge as well as the fourth street off ramp from u.s. 101 and portions of mission, howard, folsom will be closed between second and fifth as well as the streets around the top of nob hill. >> reporter: if you're using public transportation, keep in mind that moscone center station will be closed. >> in addition, we'll be running very, very frequent shuttle trains between powell street station and chinatown to make sure that people can still easily get into and out of chinatown. >> reporter: to the concern about checkpoints, pay attention to this map. pedestrian checkpoints will be located within the secure zone at huntington park, folsom an

. >> jeff tumlin is the director of the sfmta and he's urging people to check the agency's website often in you're updating that information multiple times per day as we get new information from secret service and san francisco's police chief with a plea to the public, please be patient, please, please allow time extra time, bake extra time into your daily routines. the chief is also asking people to be on alert. >> if you see something suspicious, report it. >> law enforcement is expected to be out in full force next week and so are emts. >> we have up staffed for the week. we have mutual aid, ambulances coming into the city. >> san francisco's fire chief trying to quell concerns raised by the abc7 i-team yesterday about emergency response times. >> there's no need to be concerned. we have resources staffed within those security checkpoints and we have areas to hand off patients outside of the security checkpoints. >> tara campbell, abc seven news. >> street closures and transit schedules could of course, change. we will keep you updated and we'll have new info posted to our website abc

our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we s

. >> jeff tumlin is the director of the sfmta and he's urging people to check the agency's website often when you're updating that information multiple times per day, as we get new information from secret service and san francisco's police chief with a plea to the public, please be patient. >> please allow time, extra time, bake extra time into your daily routines. >> the chief is also asking people to be on alert. >> if you see something suspicious, report it. >> law enforcement is expected to be out in full force next week and so are emts. we have up staffed for the week. >> we have mutual aid, ambulances coming into the city. >> san francisco's fire chief trying to quell concerns raised by the abc7 i-team yesterday about emergency response times. >> there's no need to be concerned. we have a resources staffed within those security checkpoints and we have areas to hand off patients outside of the security checkpoints. >> tara campbell, abc seven news and during apec next week there is rain in the forecast and that could be an extra challenge for people taking transit to avoid road clos

today's special guest is jeff tumlin. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you're watching san francisco rising the show on starting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't