The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency had a horrible summer, and it all revolved around a two-month, $41 million overhaul of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, which reopened in late August. Mission Local’s managing editor, Joe Eskenazi, reported extensively on MTA’s mismanagement of the closure that left hundreds of thousands of riders stranded on busy lines. The agency also awarded a contract to a construction company with a record of safety violations, Shimmick Construction, to work on the tunnel. One of the company’s workers died while working in the tunnel. Listen in.
Julian Mark
Julian grew up in the East Bay and moved to San Francisco in 2014. Before joining Mission Local, he wrote for the East Bay Express, the SF Bay Guardian, and the San Francisco Business Times.
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Joe Eskenazi
Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.
“Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere.
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three (!) kids, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.
The Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists named Eskenazi the 2019 Journalist of the Year.
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