According to the Chronicle, while trying to catch a train at the Embarcadero station Tuesday night at around 6 p.m., a man got his hand trapped in the door of an L-line and was dragged along the platform. As he was seconds away from a fatal encounter with the approaching wall, a passenger inside the car pulled the little red emergency release par and the car stopped. The man being dragged was fine. The......

--There were more bikes than cars on Market Street today for Bike To Work Day. Soon we will realize our dream where every car driver is assigned an individual biker to yell at them with a camera in hand. --Better to be biking to work than on MUNI -- as some of you reported to us, there was a massive meltdown in the tunnel this morning when the computer system crashed. Maggie Lynch says......

We meant to post on this yesterday but the afternoon kind of got away from us (thank goodness today's Veterans' Day! Thank you, veterans!). An electrical short near the Castro Street MUNI station disabled all the K, L, and M MUNI streetcar lines for three hours yesterday afternoon. They got it fixed around 4, so the afternoon commute wasn't as bad as it could have been. MUNI spokesperson Maggie Lynch apologizes. There's an investigation underway......

--San Jose is outraged that people think it's less safe than New York. Outraged! --No spinach in any local restaurants. --There's a Code Pink rally at Chris Daly's office today. --Poor MUNI spokesperson Maggie Lynch -- not only an act of Muni-on-Muni violence yesterday, but also a pedestrian hit by a 43 bus. --Housing prices drop. --Suck it, SF Greens.......

Well, on the down side, they're now charging so much for cable cars ($5) that no one wants to ride them anymore. On the up side, no one's going to be able to ride them anyways -- at least not today! Cable car service on both the Powell-Mason line and the California line are down all day after alarms went off on both lines, indicating possible damage to the cable. In separate news, the historic......

--Why's Lawrence Wong getting in so much trouble for accidentally crossing a picket line when the Bay Area Reporter did too? --The Stanford Band frets about its future. --The SF hip-hop dancer (Allan) from the first season of So You Think You Can Dance supports Krissy Keefer. --Maggie Lynch compares MUNI to Lemony Snicket. --Skip school, go to jail. --More cops in North Beach. Why aren't there more cops in the Western Addition? --Pat Murphy......

What a pain! It looks like an N Judah train has shuffled off this mortal coil somewhere between the Embarcadero and Caltrain stations this afternoon. The train's untimely passing occurred at 11 this morning, and the tracks remain blocked as of this writing (3:20 p.m.). Muni is running shuttle buses to get SoMa passengers to and from the Embarcadero station. Muni spokesperson Janis Yuen (who the heck is this Janis Yuen? What happened to......

So MUNI claims that your morning commute from the Sunset should be okay today, after yesterday's debacle in the Twin Peaks tunnel. Turns out there was indeed a derailment (of an L train, at 7:50 a.m.) in the tunnel, and the initial reports of an electrical problem were incorrect. Also, it turns out that this was the second derailment on MUNI in seven days. Where was the first derailment? According to MUNI spokesman Alan Siegel......

Hey, take one guess: what's the worst place on the web for finding up-to-date news about Muni? That would be Muni's very own website, of course, which despite having a section for "new links" bears absolutely no mention of its new study showing that fifty percent of riders don't pay. Maybe Muni doesn't want anyone to know! ...Or maybe they didn't post that news because EVERYONE ALREADY KNEW. Nice work, Muni; what did you......

We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now we think that it's going to be a lot bigger, which is awesome. This story seems to have really touched a nerve! We notified local press and relevant city agencies through an official press release [PDF] yesterday. Once again, it's tomorrow,......