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