More than a dozen people appeared before the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency Board today to urge the members to do their jobs.

The speakers, including transit, bicycle, and union activists, said that mayor should not have the authority to unilaterally allow Uber, Lyft, and Waymo vehicles on a part of Market Street that the MTA has long closed to private cars.

Director Julie Kirschbaum told the commissioners that the mayor wanted to offer “more transportation options,” for the mid-Market area. She said that the decision was “very deliberate” and that “as new transportation services are added, we don’t want to lose Muni efficiency and safety.”

But speakers noted that having private vehicles on the street would do exactly that: Uber, Lyft, and Waymo often stop right in the middle of

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