5 minutes Date Enacted: Jan 1, 2013
In 2012, the SFMTA set an ambitious goal to reduce private car trips to 50 percent of all city trips by 2018. Three years later, the agency announced it had already surpassed its goal. According to SFMTA travel survey results, 48 percent of trips in San Francisco in 2014 were made driving alone or with others, while 52 percent were made using active and shared modes of transportation such as bikesharing, walking, and public transit. The SFMTA credited the shift to tactics such as encouraging compact development and using smart land-use and parking policy to change travel behavior.