Awhile back, Greg wrote that he didn't want The N Judah Chronicles to become the "let's all talk about people getting hurt and killed blog." Alas, the injury count seems to have gone up a tick today; Muni reports: There is no Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) service on the J-Church line between 16th and Church streets and San Jose and Ocean avenues due to an injury accident between an LRV and a pickup truck at......

Writer, lead singer, guitarist, and founder of J-Church, Lance Hahn, passed away due to kidney disease complications on Saturday. He was 40. Although he formed J-Church in San Francisco during the halcyon days of the early '90s, he moved the group on to bigger things in Texas. There, he finally found success within the scrappy Austin-based punk scene. Read more about his life and music at Punk News and Austin 360. Image: Amanda Mauer......

Screen shot captured Sunday afternoon by ciaran-sf at the Montgomery Street station. It went without K, T, L, or M outbound info since last Thursday, we're told. On the sunnier side, at least the outbound J-Church and N-Judah intervals are almost spot-on.......

-- John O'Neill, the man killed last week by an N-Judah a J-Church train, died while saving his pup, Cappy. If there is a heaven, O'Neill is up there. [Chron] -- Spare the Air days = more clueless MUNI/BART riders. [Fog City Notes] -- Spotswood goes to a Giants game, attaches theme songs to local flavors. [Chron Blogs] -- P-O-P-C-O-R-N to die soon. RIP, detached ladyvoice. [David Lazarus] -- The armpit of California: richest......

-- Tzssss: Golden Gate Bridge gets branded. (They won't really have billboards on the bridge, but who would want to see tasty Pizza Rolls high above, or why Sally Field stays so ramrod straight?) [Chron] -- Castro is now dead, says Perez. No, not the Castro. Although that neighborhood [insert your own joke here]. [SFBG, via PH] -- Man killed by J-Church on Thursday identified as John O'Neill, 47. RIP, dude. [Chron] -- What will......

True story from a crowded J-Church this morning. We were sitting quietly, a little zoned out, holding the 20 oz. cup of coffee that we'd obtained at our neighborhood cafe with both of our hands, which had become rather cold from time outside. Yes, we had a lid on it. The J-Church, particularly when it's on the streets heading from Dolores Park up to Market St., is a little herky-jerky. One well-known hazard faced by regular MUNI riders (whether bus or street car): you take a risk if you stand or try to move in advance of the vehicle actually coming to a complete stop. Chances are good you might take a dive if you try it. Hasn't this happened to most of us at one time or another?...

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Photo of costumed teens posing happily with their new books. These guys were great. They'd never heard of SFist before, so we skipped the questions about Ed Jew and recent shenanigans on the J-Church. We hate lines and we shy away from new things -- we're definitely a second- or third-generation adopter for tech, and a wait-for-the-paperback guy for books. But we guess this Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows turned things sideways. We......

SFist Dan reports that the J-Church "is dead from 18th Street/Church" and on. "Clusterfuck"ing and madness found at the site of transportation-free chaos. UPDATE: J-Church is up and running.......

And on the lighter side of MUNI news, this swiped-genitalia graffiti was found on the J-Church this past Friday night. Not sure if "they" means women, queers, Noe Valley residents, all three, or what -- or why it's on masking tape. Enjoy! (Thanks, Greg, for capturing this for us.)......

You don't happen to have any opinions about the level of service on the J-Church, do you? Oh, you do? Why, that's marvelous. Muni wants to enlist you as their secret agent. During May, June, and July, Muni's going to be throwing every tool in their arsenal directly at the J. As one of the worst-performing lines, they're experimenting to see what it takes to turn things around. What works? What doesn't? "Oh Lord,......

This is probably late for those of you already at the Phonebooth (it's 3-1 right now as another good starting pitching performance is being wasted by an anemic, Barry-less offense) but starting today, service to the ballpark is being changed. No longer will the N Judah take you to game, but the T Third line will. So expect to get there later than normal. ...

So we all know Muni is having some budget problems, mainly that in order to work the way they (and us) want it to work, they'll need more money, like $150 million dollars. But they also know that any sort of fare increase will only bring the wrath of God on them. What to do, what to do? ...

A Muni bus struck and killed a 40 year old woman today around 7:30 this morning. The bus, the 27-Bryant, was on Ellis Street making a right onto Leavenworth Street when the pedestrian, who had been crossing the street, was hit. It is not known yet what she was doing when she was hit, although police say there was a green light for both. She was pronounced dead on the scene and as of 9:30, police were still out on the street investigating things. ...

Here's todays roundup of the news...

While we were stuck in some really bad traffic this morning, we turned on the radio to get a traffic report and heard that we weren't the only ones having a rough commute...

Big G took a break from his busy thunder-stealing schedule on Sunday to watch his lady friend, Jennifer Siebel, act her heart out at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. The movie is The Trouble With Romance. It looks amazing. ...

That pilot program that's being tried out on the 1 California is now going to be tested on the J Church. Which is kind of a good thing as it's not only the most unreliable of all the MUNI metro lines, but one of the five least favorite MUNI lines in our Worst MUNI Line Poll. Oh yeah, it'll now be the go-to line to get people to and from the Caltrain station. ...

As of April 7, the N Judah will no longer be the MUNI metro train that will take you to the Caltrain station and the ballpark. That will now the J-Church and the new T-Third line. ...

Hey, it looks like today's theme is MUNI. But who doesn't love stories about MUNI? Anyways, the Chron did a story and discovered that MUNI has a lot of problems right now, mainly that it's on time only 70% of the time. That's 15% lower than mandated by Prop E. In fact, only three lines approach the 85% mark....

Today is an exciting day in the world of San Francisco transit as we move from Phase I of the Metro Overhead Line Replacement Project (MOLRP) and start Phase II. Woo hoo! We hear there was a celebration in honor of the start of Phase II which largely consisted of Nathaniel Ford breaking a champagne bottle on the first delayed run of the J Church. ...

Here are two good web sites that you should enjoy. They don't really have that much in common, but they're both good. ...

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A reader writes in to ask one of the biggest questions there is about MUNI: I've attached a screenshot of the J Church train on a Friday night, according to Next Muni's site. Yep, that is five trains arriving within one ten-minute period, for a train that's supposed to go every ten minutes. This is at a stop that is five stops from the terminus, where (in theory) someone should be sitting there saying......

We're breaking with our Blotter tradition of SF crime movie clip art because, well, we can't find two other animal-related stories to post an Animal Roundup and -- would you look at how cute that marmoset is??? The Peninsula Humane Society responded to a call from an engineering student in East Palo Alto who saw a monkey running on a neighborhood fence, which turned out to be a member of the species known as the......

It looks like not all our complaints about Muni go into the void we might think they do. Then again, judging from some of the responses we've seen, we're not sure if they're thorough or just trying to bore us to death. You'll see what we mean when you expand to read the correspondence between Muni and SFist Reader Jas, a "A twice daily 6,7,66,71 and occasionally J-Church and N-Judah rider." Image from Jamison's......

It snowed in the Bay Area this weekend -- the first March snowstorm since 1896. And we're not just talking snow like in the Sierras or maybe on the top of Mount Tam -- there was snow in Danville, on Mount Baker in the South Bay, and even some snow in San Francisco by West Portal. The last time it snowed in San Francisco was in 1976, and we got about an inch. (Click here for some interesting SF snow history: SF's largest snow was 3.7 inches in downtown on Feb. 5, 1887.) We didn't get a huge 1887-style blizzard on Sunday, but Highway 17 was closed for three hours on Sunday morning for snowplows, a section of 280 south of 92 was closed, a seven-car pileup on 80 was blamed on hail, and in the area's biggest car pileup in ages, 28 cars spun out of control in the snow on the north side of the Waldo Tunnel just outside Sausalito, as unsuspecting motorists sped out of the downhill-heading tunnel only to be faced with snowy, slippery roads. As an immigrant to San Francisco from a snowier clime, this correspondent assumes you kids out there will have no idea what we're talking about when we say that we're sorry this didn't happen during the week so you could have a snow day from school. Know why we know you won't know what we're talking about? The Chronicle had to provide a definition of snow for its bewildered readers!!! We love this city.

While snow falls in flakes and looks more like small ice shavings, hail is balls of ice, usually small. If the trees are white, [National Weather Service meteorologist Brooke] Bingaman said, it's probably snow.

Our love affair with NextBus remains unabated since we added it to our bookmarks. A NextBus check as we get ready to leave in the morning has often allowed us the time to contemplate our accessory choice, or made us aware that no, we do NOT have time to pet the cat one more time before we head out the door. But what happens when NextBus tells us news we don't want to hear?......

Boy: "My mom taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was a kid. And I made lots of bags and pillows. They're pretty much the same thing. Except one has an open end and a handle." -- From Erik in Union Square Scene: An elderly couple has just taken a parking spot that a middle-aged woman wanted. As they get out of their car, she shrieks at them. Lady: "KARMA is......

Growing increasingly worried about safety, the union representing MUNI bus drivers have requested that the SFPD provide them with a dedicated police force....