The City of Mansfield is happy to announce that we will be hosting the fifth class of My Mansfield Muni-Versity civic academy beginning in August of 2024. My Mansfield Muni-Versity will be an opportunity for residents to get to know the City even better. Participants will get to know the faces behind the programs and hear first-hand from department staff about the programs and services available. Is there a question you have always had or you've been looking for an opportunity to get more involved; this is the program for you.
My Mansfield Muni-Versity is an opportunity for you to get to know your City even better and a chance to find out what services and programs are available to you. You will get to know the faces behind those programs and meet your elected officials. Through Muni-Versity you will have more opportunities to get more involved within your community.
Dr. Neal I. Muni is an accomplished life sciences executive with over 20 years of industry experience as an operator, investor, and advisor to multiple biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, leveraging unique insights gained through a career spanning industry, healthcare investment banking, the FDA, and clinical care.
Dr. Muni currently serves as the Managing Director of RTK Group, a family office backed biopharmaceutical advisory and investment fund focused on supporting clinical-stage companies from development to commercialization. As part of his operating and advisory roles through RTK Group, Dr. Muni serves as Advisor and Chief Medical Officer of Unravel Biosciences, Advisor and Partner at Romeg Therapeutics, Chief Operating Officer of Comera Life Sciences (NASDAQ:CMRA) and Independent Board Director of HDAX Therapeutics.
Prior to Azurity, Dr. Muni served as the Head of New Product Planning and Corporate Strategy at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, Dr. Muni was an engagement manager at the healthcare investment bank Leerink Swann. Prior to Leerink, he was a Medical Officer in the Division of Cardiovascular Devices at the FDA.
At the Wyss Institute, Neal is a member of the Wyss Mentor Hive who specializes in therapeutics, FDA regulation, clinical development, Investigational New Drug-enabling studies, and commercialization. As a mentor, Neal works closely with Wyss project teams and collaborates on technology development, partnering, and company formation.
The Wyss Mentor Hive is a mentoring program that invites investors and business professionals with significant early stage translational experience, clinical and regulatory experts in driving therapeutic and device development, and serial entrepreneurs with a track record of success to work closely with Wyss entrepreneur teams on startup formation and technology commercialization. Mentors provide feedback to founders and entrepreneurs, while also demonstrating commitment and leadership in the Wyss innovation community.
Most bus lines are scheduled to operate every five to fifteen minutes during peak hours, every five to twenty minutes middays, about every ten to twenty minutes from 9 pm to midnight, and roughly every half-hour for the late night "owl" routes. On weekends, most Muni bus lines are scheduled to run every ten to twenty minutes. However, complaints of unreliability, especially on less-often-served lines and older (pre-battery backup) trolleybus lines, are a system-wide problem. Muni has had some difficulty meeting a stated goal of 85% voter-demanded on-time service.[7][8]
All Muni lines run inside San Francisco city limits, with the exception of several lines serving locations in the northern part of neighboring Daly City, and the 76X Marin Headlands Express line to the Marin Headlands area on weekends and major holidays. Most intercity connections are provided by BART and Caltrain heavy rail, AC Transit buses at the Transbay Transit Center, and Golden Gate Transit and SamTrans downtown.[citation needed]
Muni is short for the "Municipal" in "San Francisco Municipal Railway" and is not an acronym; thus, when it is written in plain text, only Muni (not MUNI) is correct. The Muni metro is often called "the train" or "the streetcar." Most San Franciscans use 'Muni' when speaking about the system (Metro & buses) in general.[citation needed]
Cable car fare is $8 per trip,[14] with no transfers issued or accepted. "Passports" are folding scratch-off passes that can be purchased by mail, or at various places throughout the city; they are good on all regular-service lines without surcharge, including cable cars. As of September 2018, Passports cost $23 for a 1-day pass, $34 for a 3-day pass, or $45 for a 7-day pass, with discounts for using Clipper card or MuniMobile.[12]
Muni has implemented a dual-mode smart card payment system known as Clipper (formerly TransLink). The transponders have been in use since at least 2004,[17] and replaced most paper monthly passes in 2010. BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, VTA, AC Transit, SamTrans, SMART and San Francisco Bay Ferry also utilize the Clipper system.[18]
Fares can also be paid with a mobile app called MuniMobile since 2015.[19] The app is developed by moovel,[20] who have built mobile ticketing apps for a number of other transit agencies such as Caltrain and TriMet. The app is planned to be deployed untilaround 2021 when the next generation Clipper card mobile app is planned to launch and replace agency-specific ticketing apps.[20]
Muni operates 14 express lines, 5 Rapid lines, and 12 Owl lines, which run between 1 am and 5 am. For San Francisco Giants games, additional "baseball shuttles" supplement N Judah and T Third service to Oracle Park.[73]
Express lines only run during peak hours; during mornings they run towards downtown (the Financial District) and during the evening they run away from downtown. All express lines have an "X", "AX", or "BX" following the line's number. Some lines are divided into A and B Expresses. The B Express line is shorter and has stops that are closer to downtown, while the A Express makes stops further away from downtown and will make few or no stops in the area where the B Express stops. The 8 Bayshore, as the 8X Bayshore Express, was the only Express route that ran daily until April 25, 2015, the date when it was no longer an Express route.
Muni also operates the San Francisco cable car system, a heritage streetcar system descendant of a larger network of manually operated cable cars. The first city-owned line was acquired in 1906, although the current configuration is an amalgamation of several former lines and has operated as such since in 1952. The system was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. There are three cable car lines being the Mason-Powell line, the California State line, and the Powell- Hyde line. Popular areas from the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf are served by cable cars. In the system, there are 62 allocated stations. The system accrues five million annual riders and has always been a tourist destination as well as a convenient means for travel around the city.
Additionally, Muni operates two heritage streetcar lines distinct from the Muni Metro: the E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves, however the former has been suspended since April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Formerly run for the Historic Trolley Festival, in the 1980s, regular service of heritage equipment began in 1995. Streetcars do not utilize tunnel segments and the F line utilizes infrastructure optimized for trolleybuses along Market Street (the former routing of all downtown streetcar lines before the formation of Muni Metro).
Muni operates about 1,200 vehicles: 550 diesel-electric hybrid buses, 300 electric trolleybuses, 250 modern light rail vehicles, 50 historic streetcars and 40 cable cars. All vehicles, except for cable cars, are wheelchair accessible.
The electricity to run all of Muni's trolleybuses, light rail vehicles, streetcars, and the cable car powerhouse comes from the hydroelectric dam at the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.[79]
All of Muni's current internal combustion buses use diesel-electric hybrid powertrains, fueled with renewable diesel fuel made from bio-feedstock sources, including fats, oils and greases.[80] The combination of hybrid technology and renewable diesel fuel helps reduce fuel consumption and cut vehicle emissions.[81]
In November 1999 San Francisco voters passed Proposition E setting standards for performance of having at least an 85% on-time record[82] In July 2012 Muni vehicles were on-time 60% of the time and in August 2012, they were on-time 57% of the time.[83] A report conducted by the San Francisco Municipal Transport Agency in early 2013 noted that Muni was on time only 58% of the time. It delayed its customers a total of 172,195 hours and reduced the city's economic activity by US$50 million per year.[84] In 2013 the performance hit an all-time low of 57%, the on-time performance improved to 60% in January 2014, 60% in February 2014, and 60% in March 2014.[85]
Since the passage of Proposition E in November 1999, Muni has been part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), a semi-independent city agency created by that ballot measure. The agency, into which Muni, the Department of Parking and Traffic, and the Taxicab Commission were merged, is governed by a seven-member Board of Directors appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Supervisors. The acting Director of Transportation of the SFMTA since August 15, 2019 has been Thomas Maguire, appointed by the SFMTA Board as the interim replacement for Director of Transportation Edward Reiskin.[87][88][89] On April 29, 2019, Director Reiskin announced that he would step down at the end of his contract in August 2019.[90][91] On November 13, 2019, the agency announced that Jeffrey Tumlin would take over as the new director on December 16, 2019.[3]
Muni soon started on a large building program. On December 29, 1914, the new Stockton Street Tunnel under Nob Hill opened, allowing streetcars from downtown to go to North Beach and the new Marina District. On February 3, 1918, the Twin Peaks Tunnel opened, making the southwestern quarter of the city available for development. On October 21, 1928, the Sunset Tunnel opened, bringing the N Judah streetcar line to the Sunset District. These improvements plunged Muni into direct competition with the URR on the entire length of Market Street. The two operators each operated its own pair of tracks down that thoroughfare, which came to be known as the "roar of the four".[98]
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