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An Ever-Changing Market Street By Jeremy Menzies As we look towards a new future for Market Street under the Better Market Street Project , here's a brief look back in history at Market Street from the 1850s to 1970s. From muddy cart tracks and plank walkways to wide brick sidewalks, transit lanes and bikeways, Market has been the ever-changing heart of our city since it was established in the mid 1800s. First surveyed in 1847 by Jasper O'Farrell, Market Street was laid out in part to provide a transition between the two opposing street grids north and south of Market. Planned as the city's widest street, Market was meant to be San Francisco's main boulevard and quickly became one of the busiest thoroughfares in town. The photo above was taken circa 1856 looking west from 3rd Street, a time when downtown looked more like a small town than a city. Long before hybrid diesel buses and e-scooters, Market Street was home to multiple cable car and horse car lines that

This Weekend: Magnolia Blooms and Lunar New Year at the Zoo By Schad Dalton Events:  It's Super Bowl Weekend and with the 49ers making their first appearance since 2013 it is a relatively quiet weekend in the city. However, there are still lots of fun activities for those who aren't football fans. On Saturday evening, SF State University will host performances of Beethoven during the annual Yehuni Menuhin Seminar and Festival at Knuth Music Hall. Head over to the SF Zoo on Saturday to enjoy some special Lunar New Year-themed activities. For those feeling a little wintertime cabin fever, spring is just around the corner and there are some opportunities to enjoy the great outdoors, including a field trip of Lobos Creek Valley in the Presidio and the annual Magnolia Bloom at the SF Botanical Garden. Lastly, the Asian Art Museum free admission day is this Sunday (and every first Sunday of the month) in the Civic Center. Read more about our featured events below. Check out th

SFMTA Travel Decision Survey 2019 By The SFMTA completed its biennial Travel Decision Survey which estimates mode share for travelers whose trips either began, ended, or were within San Francisco.  The mode share results from the 2019 Travel Decision Survey and other key data sources were shared at the SFMTA’s annual Board Workshop held on January 28. Sustainable trips are growing where investments are being made in our transportation network.  Our Muni Forward Program is a great example of this, which we will explain in more detail. However, based on the overall direction that our mode share is trending, we need to do more to support accessible, long-term sustainable growth. The Travel Decision Survey indicates that the proportion of people choosing cars has increased. Less driving is fundamental to every one of our goals, making performance metrics like mode shift critical. Mode share is a measure of the percentage of travelers using a particular type of transportation and is an

Director of Transportation Report: January 21, 2020 By In this week’s Director’s Report from the SFMTA Board of Directors meeting, Jeffrey Tumlin gave updates on the following topics: Vision Zero Two fatalities since the last board meeting, both of which are also still under investigation making it too early to determine whether they are Vision Zero fatalities according to our Fatality Reporting protocol, but regardless we send our condolences to friends and families of each victim. Rapid Response has been conducted for three severe injury crashes also under investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, but on 43rd and Fulton where a pedestrian was severely injured by a motorist, additional daylighting is being installed on top of the recent improvements such as larger, more visible signal heads. Shared Scooter Permit Program Update Permitted scooter companies were required to submit a plan describing their commitment to piloting adaptive scooters by Jan. 15. The pil

This Weekend: Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show and Walk for Life By Schad Dalton The Cow Palace will be for the dogs this weekend at the annual Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show at the Cow Palace. Photo: Flickr/aforonda Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cow Palace The  Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show  returns this weekend to the Cow Palace and will feature 1.000 dogs from over 100 different breeds competing in the largest benched dog show on the West Coast. Anyone attending this event can meet and get to know the dogs (and their owners!) at the show at special benches organized by breed where you can learn more about the breeds, get training tips and more. How to Get There on Muni:  Riders may take the 8 Bayshore or the 9 San Bruno routes to the Cow Palace for this event. Muni Service Notes:  There are no planned service changes for this event. Walk for Life Saturday, 12:30 p.m. Market Street East of Civic Center The annual  Walk for Li

Update: Car-Free Market Street and FAQ By Phillip Pierce As you may have already heard (or read in our  previous blog post ), starting on Wednesday, January 29 some of the busiest sections of Market Street are going “Car Free” to increase safety and improve Muni. That means no private vehicles will be allowed to travel along Market Street eastbound from 10th to Main or westbound from Steuart to Van Ness. Traffic will still be able to cross Market, but there will be no turns onto the street in the car-free area.   Our crews are hard at work getting the street prepared and have already installed signs that will be unveiled on January 29th. In addition, we’ve created new pedestrian safety zones, added new loading zones and are extending the Muni lanes down Market Street.  Crews installed signs alongside streets in preparation for the changes on January 29. Most signs were put up and will be covered up (or “bagged”) until next week when the car-free Market begins.  Red Muni lanes ge

HeadsUp: Nightly Subway Maintenance Starting January 26 By Benjamin Barnett The subway will be closing early each night at 9:30 p.m. starting January 26 and continuing for approximately one week for extended maintenance hours. Bus substitution service will connect to all stops. On most nights, our teams have about two hours to get work done between evening and morning service. In order to complete critical maintenance tasks that cannot be completed during normal windows, we are planning this week of early subway closures, so crews have more hours each night to do vital work. This is our ongoing effort to maintain the subway infrastructure to ensure safety and reliability. The last early subway closures for maintenance took place in August 2019.  What Are We Doing? Track Maintenance. Installing new track hardware in a pilot segment to evaluate new technology. Signal Maintenance. Perform cable tests and inspections to identify problems and future upgrades. Overhead Lines. Replace

SFMTA Public Meetings January 21 - February 4 By Board of Directors Meeting Tuesday, January 21, 1 p.m. City Hall, Room 400 Nearby Muni Routes: 5, 19, 21, 47, 49, F Market, Civic Center Station The SFMTA Board of Directors provides policy oversight for the safe and efficient transportation of goods and services in San Francisco. This includes the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), automobiles and trucks, taxis, bicycling and walking. The SFMTA Board of Directors also serves as members of the San Francisco Parking Authority. Our board of directors meetings are usually held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The  agenda  for Tuesday's meeting includes presentations regarding the recommendations of the San Francisco Muni Reliability Working Group, the Building Progress Program and the new Adaptive Scooter Share Program. Van Ness Business Advisory Committee Meeting Thursday, January 23, 6 p.m. Union Square Conference Room Nearby Muni Routes: 5, 6, 7, 9, 19,

Adaptive Scooters for People with Disabilities By We are committed to a transportation system that serves everyone. However, the recent and rapid introduction of new transportation services has not always included all San Francisco residents and visitors, especially people with disabilities. As an agency, we are actively shaping our approach to emerging mobility services and technologies to ensure that they are accessible to all. That is why we were a proud partner in last summer’s adaptive bike-share pilot and, when we established a permanent permit program for Powered Scooter Share, we required that all permittees develop an adaptive scooter pilot program to make shared micromobility more accessible to people with disabilities. Starting January 15, 2020, four unique adaptive scooter pilot programs, with a total of 50 adaptive scooters, are now available to the public through our permitted scooter operators, Jump, Lime, Scoot, and Spin. A program of this kind is very new and we d

SF Restaurant Week: January 22nd-31st By Jeanne Brophy It’s once again time for San Francisco Restaurant Week , where some of the best neighborhood restaurants thoughtfully create prix-fixe menus that highlight some of their signature tastes or take the opportunity to feature a new dish. It’s a great week of restaurants strutting their creativity to give you, the diner, a peek at the food to tempt you to return. This year SF Restaurant Week will feature two-course lunch and three or more course dinner menus at different prices determined by the restaurant: Lunch (2+ course):  $15.15 & $25.25 Dinner (3+ course): $40.40 & $65.65 menus Visit the SF Restaurant Week listings to choose by neighborhood or cuisine preference—menus are also included. You may want to get yourself out via the 5 Fulton to experience the neighborhood gem Cassava where they are known for an exceptional Japanese breakfast of miso soup, market fish, pickles and the most sublime soft shell-poached egg

Take Our New Shared Rides Survey By Bradley Dunn As San Francisco continues to grow, moving more people in fewer vehicles will maximize the efficiency and sustainability of our transportation system. While the percentage of people traveling by private automobile in San Francisco has declined in recent years, about two-thirds of these private automobile trips are carrying only one person. During World War II and the Oil Crisis of the 1970s, carpooling or sharing rides was a strategy for maximizing a scarce resource, gas.  While our vehicles have become more fuel-efficient including the introduction of hybrid and electric cars, Today, the scarce resource is street space. Shared rides are one way the SFMTA is working to make our system function more efficiently. We want to hear from you in a new survey about carpooling and shared rides in the city. Between 2010 and 2016, the total Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) in the city has increased by 13 percent, according to an analysis by the S

Bayview Community Based Transportation Plan By Bradley Dunn We are thrilled to share the draft Bayview Community Based Transportation Plan – the culmination of two years of collaboration and partnership with the Bayview community to improve transportation. The Bayview transportation plan represents a commitment to a new approach to addressing transportation planning in the Bayview district. The actions and strategies we’re planning to implement in the neighborhood bring to bear a wide variety of agency resources to address long-standing concerns in the community. As we share this plan, we’re eager to get public feedback and excited to present the plan at our first February SFMTA Board meeting. Over the past two years, we interacted with more than 4,000 residents, attended  more than 50 community meetings and events, collected more than 2,300 surveys and worksheets, and spent almost 300 SFMTA staff hours in the Bayview. This has resulted in a draft plan that spells out actions and s

This Weekend: Women's March and Martin Luther King March By Schad Dalton Holiday Muni Schedule and Parking Enforcement Reminder:  Monday, January 20, 2020 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), Muni will operate on a regular weekday schedule. Parking meters and seven-day street sweeping will be enforced citywide on the holiday. Residential parking permits and Monday-Friday daytime street sweeping and commuter towaway will not be enforced. Check out our full  Holiday Parking Enforcement Schedule  for more details. Events:  This weekend, along with being a three-day weekend for many, will also feature two prominent marches. On Saturday, women and their allies will gather in the Civic Center for the fourth annual Women's March that will step off from City Hall and proceed along Market to the Embarcadero. On Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the annual MLK Commemorative March will take place in SoMa from CalTrain to Yerba Buena Gardens. Also taking place Saturday as well as Sunday is

S.TENTISHEV ASIAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE  was established in 2004 and registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Kyrgyz Republic at the address: Kant city 58, Gagarin Street. S.TENTISHEV ASIAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE is listed in World Health Organization Directory (W.H.O), Avicenna Directory and FAIMER. Such students holding medical qualification are eligible for screening test in any country of the world and subsequent recognition of their degree. . S.TENTISHEV ASIAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE bearing three License in higher professional education. GENERAL MEDICINE (MBBS/MD) 5 YEARS GENERAL MEDICINE (MBBS/MD) 6 YEARS DENTISTRY(BDS/DDS)5 YEARS The higher institution is meant for training qualified specialists in medical sphere both for Kyrgyz Republic and other countries of the world including Pakistan,India,Nepal,Nigeria, America,Turkey, Egypt, Somalia,  Russia and CIS countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,  Tajikistan etc.).More than 2000 students are studying from these countries. T