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Melissa Culross

California, San Francisco

Public Relations Officer at SMFTA

Storyteller focused on SF transit and host of the Taken with Transportation podcast. Former @KCBSRadio reporter-anchor. Hobbyist singer. @BrownUniversity alum.

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  • 1 week ago | sfmta.com | Melissa Culross

    Our Free Muni for Youth program helps make public transit accessible to students. And we offer extra “School Tripper” bus runs during the academic year. These help with crowding as kids head home. And Muni can be fun for young people. Wendy Yu is a student at University High School in Pacific Heights and a member of our Youth Transportation Advisory Board. She was not part of the Travel Tally but takes Muni to school from her home downtown.

  • 3 weeks ago | sfmta.com | Melissa Culross

    Some people love to bike, like Lisa Charlebois, whom we met one recent morning at Brecks, a café in the Inner Richmond. If Charlebois can’t pedal somewhere, she’ll hop on Muni to get there. She hopes Bike to Wherever Day can inspire more people to try biking. “For me, it’s a part of my everyday life, but it would be great if people could see that biking can be a very viable and realistic way of getting yourself to wherever you need to go” Charlebois said. “It doesn’t have to just be recreation.

  • 1 month ago | sfmta.com | Melissa Culross

    We’ve put together a special Mother’s Day episode of our Taken with Transportation podcast. “Moms Who Keep Us Moving” showcases seven women with the agency. One of those women is Director of Transportation Julie Kirschbaum. “We have a lot of incredible SFMTA employees that are raising families,” she says in the episode. “Some on their own, some with a village.”Kirschbaum has two kids, both of whom ride Muni.

  • 1 month ago | sfmta.com | Melissa Culross

    We want to make electric vehicle charging more accessible in San Francisco. So, along with SF Environment, Public Works and the Public Utilities Commission, we’re bringing charging the curb. We are starting to create a network of charging stations at parking spaces throughout the city. That’s in addition to the charging stations in our garages. This pilot program will make it more convenient for people who drive EVs to charge in San Francisco.

  • 2 months ago | sfmta.com | Melissa Culross

    Muni recently became an even more important transportation option. SF State used to have a dedicated shuttle that ran between campus and Daly City BART. However, that shuttle was discontinued last year. So, students, faculty and staff who take BART now count on the 28, 28R, 57 and 58 buses to get to the Daly City station. And through the Gator Pass transit program, SF State students can use their student ID to ride public transit, including Muni.

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