In today's "No Duh" study of the day, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority determined that-- are you sitting down for this?-- a rapid bus system and better public transportation options will increase ridership along Geary Street. The study also determined that puppies are cute, Brooke on "the Real World" is crazy, and the Giants need more offense. more ›

There's going to be some more clipboard-wielding petition signature gatherers near Burma Superstar, as a group of Geary Street merchants filed the official paperwork to launch a recall campaign against District 1 (The Richmond) supervisor Jake McGoldrick, for being insufficiently car-friendly. Insufficiently car-friendly? He only just biked to work for the first time in 2006! more ›

You've gotta admire SFCityscape's Steve Boland for putting his money where his Muni-griping mouth is. While lesser sites (like SFist, we freely admit) are content just to bitch and moan about Muni, SF Cityscape wants to buy you a drink at Trad'r Sam. more ›

If you're not outraged yet about Muni -- the fare increases, the service cuts, the refusal to abide by legally mandated schedules, the f**king DEATHS -- just feast your eyes on the early-distribution copy of a new report by the SF Planning and Urban Research Association (PDF). Not only could Muni face a $1,000,000,000 (BILLION! BILLION! BILLLLLLLLION!) shortfall in the coming years, but guess what: those $1.50 fare increases and service cuts they forced through last year? It turns out that So, to all you low-income families who had to go without buying milk so you could get to work: ha, ha, ha, HA. more ›

We admit, sometimes we get a little slacky when it gets close to a holiday, especially one as heady as Indigenous Peoples' Day. (That's why, later this week, you can look forward to us re-running our 1973 liveblogging of ABC's Nixon Family Thanksgiving Extravaganza.) And apparantly we're not the only ones: when we were reading the letters to the editor of The Examiner yesterday, we sensed an aura of deja vu around a letter from David Heller, the prez of a Geary Street merchants' association. What is it about his letter -- which argues against dedicated bus lines on Geary, despite the SPUR report's suggestion that they would actually be a huge improvement -- that's so strangely familiar, like the haunting melody of pain and love, drifting on a supple summer breeze? Oh, yeah, it's copied word-for-word from a letter he wrote back in September. Does it count as plagiarism if you're stealing material from yourself? more ›