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Christiane Hayashi

MTA Names Taxi Director

The transfer of regulatory authority over taxis to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) brings with it a new director in charge of industry oversight. Former Deputy City Attorney Christiane Hayashi has been appointed the agency’s Director of Taxis and Accessible Services. In addition to taxi regulation, her department oversees the paratransit program and accessible transit services.

A native of Oakland, Hayashi is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she majored in Japanese. Her law degree is from U.C. Hastings College of the Law.

After an internship at the Idaho Supreme Court, she joined the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office in 1990. There she

worked in the areas of water rights and public procurement, among other matters.

In 2002 she took a break from lawyering and moved to Mexico, where she taught jewelry making. When she returned to the City Attorney’s Office two year later, she began working on MTA related matters, including a rewrite of the Traffic Code. She accepted the taxi director’s job, she says, “because it’s a challenge . . . I want a better quality of life for people who are in the industry and I want to make it better for riders.”

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