Before San Francisco evolved into a city best known for eating food from a truck in Dolores Park, we used to have the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, renowned stand up comedy, affordable housing, film production companies in Treasure Island, and national treasure Phyllis Diller hawking the Fast Pass. Spot Us came across this ad at a Mission Street pawn shop. We like it. Brassy, yes? more ›

SFist Jay decided to use his first Clipper card yesterday, given that it was August 1st and Muni is phasing out the paper FastPasses soon. Having procured a free card from one of the representatives at Civic Center one day last month, the only step that seemed to remain was going online and putting an August FastPass on there. Right? more ›

Change is afoot in your commute, ladies and gentlemen. As of late June, you'll no longer be able to buy Muni Fast Passes online, and as of October those fun, colorful, ever-changing paper passes will disappear forever. Muni is forcing everyone to move over to the Translink system, WHICH, as of next week, will no longer be called Translink. It will heretofore henceforth be called Clipper, and all that Translink branding will need to be swapped out. (See that link for times when you can receive a free ClipperCard... otherwise they're $5.) more ›

While others try to mansplain to you the problems with Muni, let us hypothesize what's really wrong with San Francisco's infamous public transit system: the every-changing color palate of the Fastpass. If we can get all Color Me Beautiful on you for a moment, don't you think Muni's problems stem from the Fastpass' revolving kaleidoscope of colors? Too garish, too much. more ›

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Your year in Fast Pass. more ›

Due to budget problems, the Muni Powers That Be have decided on a possible solution, that being raising the Muni Fast Pass from $45 to $60 bucks. Suck on it, Muni riders. more ›

We have a love/hate relationship with Muni fare inspectors. We hate them when we can't find our Fast Pass or transfer stub. We love them for the entertainment they provide while busting someone else riding for free. Go figure. more ›

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We all know how effective suggestion boxes are, right? Gavin's tacked one up in city call in digital form on his "blog," or "web log." He's asking citizens to submit lists of "peeves," so he knows what he ought to be taking credit for fixing -- including stuff in which he didn't actually have any involvement. more ›

It's time for SFist Answers! Now that you've asked Questions, we give you Answers. This week we cover hard drugs, bodily functions, and most agonizing of all -- MUNI. Keep those questions flowin' to sfistanswers@gmail.com. Include your question, your name, and your city/neighborhood – just like when you were filling out your craigslist Missed Connections post. more ›

It's St. Patrick's Day (or amateur hour, to the more inveterate drinkers among us), and it's Friday. That's the kind of combination that has the police even more eager to ensure your safety by utilizing sobriety checkpoints all over the Bay Area. Folks, this is not the night to drive drunk, so pull out your Fast Pass, grap plenty of quarters, and hit Transit 511 to plan your night. more ›

SFist Jon's got a new companion in city graft, as Supervisor Chris Daly gets busted for sneaking on a MUNI train without paying. Chris, was it not enough to steal all those valuable 0s and 1s from the sfgov.org computer server for your -- what do the kids call those things....? internet-diary bloog-a-ma-bob? The MUNI cops caught Daly without a pass or transfer going inbound from Civic Center, at which point Daly argued with them all the way to the Embarcadero stop that he'd only snuck in from the gate because no one was at the booth to take his tokens. The cops escorted Daly to the Embarcadero booth -- where, again, there was no one to take the tokens. Daly was then frog-marched (okay, we're exaggerating slightly now) to the front of the next MUNI car, where a driver accepted Daly's tokens, getting the District 6 Supervisor out of a $113 ticket. So many questions! Among them: One -- why can't you put tokens in the coin slot of a MUNI turnstile? Two: after they caught him at Civic Center, why didn't they just let Daly give the tokens to the driver of the first MUNI car instead of going through the whole up the escalator, down the escalator thing at the Embarcadero? And three: Chris Daly doesn't have a Fast Pass? No comment from Daly on the allegations yet; he's on vacation. more ›

People, please! If we promise cross our heart to pick up hard copies of the Examiner, would it kill Mr. Anschutz to put up the articles just a little bit earlier? It cuts into our blogging schedule. So for those of you worrying that Matt Gonzalez had sold out his good citizenship-ry now that he's a big-time corporate lawyer with the reports in PJ Corkery's column last Friday that Matt was seen sneaking onto a MUNI bus without paying, PJ reports that Matt finally emailed back the following:

I plead guilty to boarding the bus in the manner described, but absolutely deny any furtive left/right glances! And no, I don't have a Fast Pass, but I ">did have a transfer, as I took the 22-Fillmore to get over there. ... (If you like, I could dig around my pockets and maybe find it for you). ... But more importantly, do you think you can get the mayor to get more buses on the street! ... How can we expect people to give up their cars if the buses are so crowded!