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San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

City and County of San Francisco, dba: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency · San Francisco, CA · NTD ID 90015

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency reported 1,786 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 20 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 5.03 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 93 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.57x the national rate.

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Events per million miles
5.03
#15 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
1,786
#13 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
20
1,492 injured, 21 seriously
Service driven
71M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 359 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system
  • People on the road 5
  • People on the right-of-way 4
  • Riding the vehicle 4
  • Suicides 3
  • Other or unclassified 2
  • Waiting or boarding 1
  • Transit workers 1

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 20. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 143 → 2025: 171 · peak 192

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 6 worker assault events 2015: 9 worker assault events 2016: 8 worker assault events 2017: 1 worker assault events 2018: 3 worker assault events 2019: 5 worker assault events 2020: 9 worker assault events 2021: 15 worker assault events 2022: 19 worker assault events 2023: 12 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 30 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 39 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

165 total · peak 39 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Fixed-Route Bus 940
  • Core Rail 842
  • Other Non-Rail 4

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.

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Numbers on the chips are events per million vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024.

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Generated 2026-07-13 02:56 UTC

Source: FTA National Transit Database - Major Safety and Security Events, joined to NTD Metrics for the service denominator