City cars by department

Photo: Sarah Ravani

In January I made this request for information from City Hall:

Several years ago, when the Dept. of the Environment was managing the city's fleet, the Examiner had a story about the many waivers city departments were asking for under the Healthy Air and Clean Transportation Ordinance.

Can you provide an update on that story? How many city cars---I'm not interested in trucks, other utility vehicles, or generators---does each city department have? Which departments have asked for waivers?

Dan Coleman, Fleet Analyst at Fleet Management/Central Shops, responded last week with the latest numbers and this statement: "No department has asked for waiver for 2017." 

Good to see that the aggressively anti-car MTA's car fleet has been reduced drastically from 535---with 529 requests for waivers!---to 124. Why can't they ride Muni or bikes while on the job? That's what they want the rest of us to do.

Apparently city departments were too embarrassed to ask for waivers this time around.

Department	Count of Cars
AIRPORT	98
BLDG INSP	107
COURTS	98
DPW	96
FIRE	74
GSA	28
HEALTH	78
HUMAN SERVICES	65
LIBRARY	4
MUNI	124
OTHER	15
POLICE	563
PORT	17
PUC	133
REC & PARK	25
SHERIFF	56
TECH	5
Grand Total	1,586

Below is the tally in 2013:

Earlier posts on this issue: Hypocrites! The MTA clings to its fleet of cars, Hypocrites 2, and Hypocrites: An update.