Although Muni is (understandably) having major delays today due to the rain, NextBus, it seems, is also out-of-order. On the worst possible day, too. Ugh. more ›

Is it too much to ask that NextBus cope with the daylight savings time-change? Our wristwatch can figure it out, but apparently it's simply too much for NextBus to comprehend. So on Saturday night, there was a complete blackout of arrival predictions; not just for San Francisco, but for all NextBus clients in the US and Canada. Luckily, you could still get scheduled arrival times by calling 311. more ›

Did somebody at 511.org just accidentally their website? According to an alert, you can now real-time Muni train information. Hey, that's! more ›

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. more ›

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, data. Hooray! That only took, what, a billion fucking years? more ›

As usual, Google's come up with a way to make everyone's lives easier. The details of Google Transit Feed Specification are a bit technical and engineer-y, but the upshot for transit riders is this: you can plan your trips with Google Transit on more agencies than before, and with even better results. BART's participating in the project, which is good news for BART riders. Muni is not, which is bad news; but Muni riders are used to that. more ›