Loads of delightful events are happening this weekend: street fairs, charity walks, tequila, inline skating appreciation, and more. Here's how SF transit plans on handling the merriment: Bay Bridge Construction Closure Beginning 1:30 a.m., Saturday, May 3 through 1:30 a.m., Sunday, May 4, Fourth Street between Bryant Street and Harrison Street will be closed to accommodate Bay Bridge construction work. The following Muni lines will be affected. * 30-Stockton (inbound only) * 45-Union (inbound......

Photo: Whole Wheat Toast Well, this is unusual. (James 4:8)......

Photo by kmontreuil "MUNI on MUNI action" at Market and Seventh.......

Discerning MUNI rail riders have known for a while now to bring small change to Church Street Station, as the quarter-dispensing machine has been broken there for over a week. We were (thankfully) exiting Church this morning, and saw that the other, dollar-coin-dispensing machine, is also broken. That explained the poor woman we saw at the turnstiles, pleading with the gate agent to accept her U.S. currency. No dice. The only choices she had......

Tomorrow's ILWU March for Workers starts tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. "after assembling at 10:00 a.m. at the ILWU Hall on Beach Street." The march is expected to head east on Beach, south on the Embarcadero and west on Market to Justin Herman Plaza. ...

There's something new on your Google Map: Muni! We're so happy about this, we don't even want to ask why it took so damn long (BART's been on Google Transit since forever). Now at last you can toggle trips from Driving Directions to Transit Directions, and it's smart enough to understand transfers -- for example, here's a trip from Berkeley to Ocean Beach via BART and Muni. Unfortunately, for just about any trip we......

It's Saturday the 26th and the iPhone says we have 26 minutes to wait for the 26 Valencia bus. This is the kind of magic we have always associated with the 26 Valencia, the bus line of which we are most inordinately fond. It's not like the 14 Mission, which we need, or the 33 Stanyan, which we respect, or the 38 Geary, which we fear (in a Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit kind of way).......

With AIDS Life riders, marchers, and massers, starting at 6 p.m today Muni's mixing things up thrice. ...

As disgusted as we were by the fact somebody left the remains of their microwaved 7 Eleven nachos on the guard rail of the 38 Geary, we have to admit to being somewhat amused by watching rider after rider walk by and stare for a few seconds to determine if getting a seat on a crowded bus was worth taking the chance that one bad jolt could cause half-eaten beans to wind up in their hair....

Source: the ever-brilliant Jim Herd at the Anime Costume Parade.......

Spring? Is in the air. Which? Means that the two-weekend-long Cherry Blossom Festival starts this weekend over. Which also? Means that MUNI will double your frustration, double your street closing fun. Behold: The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) advises San Francisco residents and visitors of the following event-related traffic and transit impacts this weekend, Saturday, April 12—Sunday, April 13, 2008. Event participants and fun seekers ["Is 'fun seeker' an official term?" -- SFist......

Today's Olympic torch relay, set to start just outside AT&T Park at 1 p.m., will result in MUNI delays. Here are the lines that will be affected today. Or not. Lines: F, K/T, N, 9X, 10, 12, 19, 20, 30, 39, 47, 49, all Cable Cars Area: Downtown, SOMA, The Embarcadero Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Time: noon until clear Of course, as most of you already know, this is not set in stone:......

Apparently San Francisco is still pretending that this TransLink thing will work someday, but we don't know why. Muni just released a statement (dated April 4, 2008 -- A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE!!!) letting us know what we already know: it doesn't work. We know this already because Muni has adorned every single one of their buses with multiple copies of a "TransLink is not Ready" poster. (Where've we heard that before? Oh, yes,......

A "50 to 70 years old" was stuck by a Muni bus at around 2 p.m. today at Geary and Fillmore. It seems that a 38-Geary smacked the guy, and, according to the Gate, the bus was "traveling eastbound toward downtown [when it] struck the pedestrian...as he walked north on Fillmore Street." ...

For such a hilly town, we sure do have a lot of bicyclists. In case you're of the cyclist persuasion and want to see what kinds of fun new routes our city will be adding, tomorrow at the Grove Street auditorium from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., Muni will be hosting an open house of sorts to discuss improvements of the bicycle routes in San Francisco. The SFMTA Bicycle Program is planning the next generation of......

Photo credit: Christopher Roberts Here we see a simple blue Sharpie--and judging by the whimsy of the "i," written by a female--used to express affection for another person or, though it's doubtful, the Muni train itself. We believe the graffiti speaks to another person since any love for Muni is suggestive of psychosis. Anyway, it's kind of nice to see graffiti on the outside of a Muni car instead of tagged on a window;......

Yesterday's protest was a huge success in luring people of all ages and creeds to Market Street and City Hall. A particularly ripe bunch of "protesters" showed their support to all of us tired passengers on the 47 Van Ness bus around 9:30 p.m. They were taking the bus to the "end of the line," aka Fisherman's Wharf. Apparently, they were drunk for the very first time, and it was most likely their first protest......

What with today's controversy surroundings James -- SFist's new photo editor, we should note (surprise!) -- and the brouhaha surrounding his NBC 11 appearance, we asked the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for a comment on the pressing situation at hand. Fearing a second plane would crash into the Muni Hot-or-Not item, we braced ourselves for what was to come next. Turns out they love it. And who wouldn't? It's awesome. When asked about......

You know, we normally hate bus-line disruptions, but we can ALMOST make an exception for this weekend's: "On Saturday, March 15, San Francisco Little League Baseball will open the 2008 season with a parade from the Presidio to Marina Middle School." A parade! A cute little baseball parade! TOO ADORABLE! This makes us want to have a baby so we can raise it for 8 years and then buy it a little pinstripe costume......

We've been fans for awhile, and now NBC 11's Traci Grant -- who seems like a lot of fun, and someone should throw a local Emmy at her -- has also picked up on the awesome public art piece Muni Hot or Not of the Now over at Nature abhors a vacuum. At the very end, anchorwoman Lisa Kim totally throws shade James' way, to which we say: Lisa Kim, hot or not?......

Caught on tape: drunk Dolores Park guy...stealing our heart. [SFBG]Cyclist deaths on rise. [Left in SF]Bay Area nurses prepare to stage a 10-day walkout. [SJ Merc]Uncultured Yelpers love $1 bag of anything. [Eater] SXSW "Valleywag]Have you been featured on Muni hot or not of the now? Well, have you? [Nature abhors a vacuum]......

Hey, you know those awful flatscreen maps in the subways? The ones with the confusing station names and the pixelated Alcatel diagrams that look like a screengrab from an Atari 2600? Don't get too accustomed to them, because Muni and NextBus are working on something better. It'll take a few weeks -- at least -- but eventually, they'll be replaced by nicer, prettier, more accurate, comprehensible data. Hooray! That only took, what, a billion......

Well, it's been fun. The trailers, the megawatt celebrity sightings, the lights, the cameras, the not being invited to cast/crew parties -- SFist will miss it all. As most of you know, Gus Van Sant's biopic Milk -- the story of assassinated San Francisco Supervisor and gay rights advocate, Harvey Milk -- started shooting in January. This past Sunday, the production came to an end. Alas. For those of you who weren't able to......

We don't usually read the Op Ed pages of the Chronicle, because it's always either rehashed columnists from other papers or something like "give birth control pills to deer in Point Reyes" -- but can you believe it? The Chron actually got someone local to write about a local issue today -- if we're going to build out the MUNI underground, why not actually build it out and have a subway that runs to Fisherman's......

Muni has decided to halt use of hybrid buses in the Hunters Point area because of "vandals" along the 54-Felton line. According to the Gate: Muni drivers have reported over the last couple of weeks that people have been shutting down the power on their buses by flipping a switch that can be accessed easily through an unlocked panel on the outside of the bus.When that happens, the drivers can't accelerate, they lose radio contact......

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....

Prince Harry goes to war and stuff. Or something like that. We didn't get much farther than the picture at right. [SFBG]Check out a most brilliant car crash in Noe Valley. [Curbed]Obama, McCain looks like theyhe'll take it. But you knew that already. Well, that was a surprise. [SFGate]Tomorrow is "D" Day. [InsideSFPD]SFBG & SF Weekly wait patiently to hear who wins I-told-you-so sniveling rights. [SFBG, SF Weekly]Bust report #301: line cuts. Oh, Muni, you......

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......

Good news: Translink will be up and running on Muni in the late fall/early winter of 2007. Or at least, that's what Muni said last year, and surprise! It's still not working. (And before that, it was January of 2007.) Translink is the work of a company called ERG, Ltd (emphasis on the "limited"); and in the decades (decades!) that it's been bandied about, lots of other cities have managed to set up Translinks......

fter months of studies, surveys, and community meetings, Gavin and Muni honchos finally unveiled new plans to solve everyone's issues with Muni. The proposed changes? Adding service to popular lines, decreasing service in less popular lines, and possibly eliminating service to those loser lines nobody likes and sit by themselves at lunchtime. Also in the proposed changes will be things like new bus-only lanes, rerouting some lines, going after lazy drivers, adding Express buses to other lines and adding a new first class service for frequent riders consisting of champagne cocktails and reclining seats. ...