SF News Why Everyone Hates Critical Mass -- And Why They're Wrong Whether you love Critical Mass or hate it, the folks on the other side of the debate must seem totally baffling, if not downright evil. Its detractors wonder, "how can anyone support an
SF News May Muni Payout: $61,176.13 We can't get any details on this month's cases, sadly, because the SF Superior Court website seems to have been completely demolished. (Maybe the SFMTA website ran into it.) We have it on
SF News News Shocker: Muni Aware of its own Shortcomings In case you were wondering how Muni was going to explain the near-meltdown two weeks ago, look no further than the agenda for the April 25th meeting of the Citizen's Advisory Committee. (It's
Arts & Entertainment Black Eyed Peas to the Rescue! You may be shocked -- SHOCKED -- to learn that sometimes, some of the people who come to the Castro for Halloween are not entirely well-behaved. Fortunately, after last year's shootings and stabbings,
Arts & Entertainment Good Dance vs. Bad Dance (Handy tip: text "follow deepasaurus" to 40404 to get Twitter updates from the organizer -- it'll be canceled if the rain gets to be too much.) But! There's more! If you've got a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated for its Excellence There's a heated and productive conversation happening over in our earlier post about Muni's dangerous plan to get bus-mounted cameras with optional bayonets and gatling guns. One of the best comments (and we
misc World Still a Potentially Scary Place What's the price of a free society? Lunatics running around loose: online threats have lead UC Hastings to shut down, just for today. What are the threats? Who's responsible? We don't know. What
SF News In Which We Construct a Confusing "New Coke" Metaphor Muni's outreach for the meeting consisted of placing Chinese-only posters in buses in February (they're still up, BTW) and mailing out "several" flyers. According to the report, "staff expected 60-80 youth ... however, the
SF News Get Thee to the J-Church on Time 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
SF News April Muni Payout Part Two: $33,275 More controversial is a case in which a blind, partially-deaf subway rider stepped off the platform, thinking he was in front of the doors, and discovered that he'd fallen between two trains. The
misc Lung Cancer! We meet that idea with skepticism; it is with vivid detail that we recall the extensive anti-smoking education of our youth, and our impression of smokers (both juvenile and adult) is that they've
SF News Muni Drivers' Union Boss: "I feel the system works now." Fun fact: Muni is required to pay its drivers based on what the two highest-paying transit systems in the country offer. Right now, that works out to about $27 an hour, and amazingly,
SF News Muni Discovery: Windshield Wipers not an Adequite Remedy for Flop Sweat UPDATE! Let's just pretend that our embarassingly mispelled hedline is a Lindsay Lohan joke. Yeah, sure, that's the ticket. Thanks for sending in pix and video of your own experiences with Muni's near-meltdown
SF News Muni: "I'm melllllting! Melllllllllllting! Oh, what a world, what a world!" So, how's that commute going, subway riders? Any better today? More Muni-Meltdown, or less Muni-Meltdown? Above, we've embedded an animation of Metro activity yesterday afternoon; call us crazy, but is seems as though
SF News "We recognize that the quality of service Muni has provided is unacceptable." UPDATE! Since this post went up 45 minutes ago, Muni has removed the apology from its site. We expect a new statement to be issued any minute, declaring that Muni regrets nothing, would
SF News The T-Third S-Staggers to L-Life This is the first official week of service on the T line. And it's not all roses and rainbows -- this weekend saw delays, bunching, and nice long waits. At one point, the
SF News Hacking Muni Part Two: What to do When You Realize That it's Impossible. Gather evidence. Take photos or screengrabs, and post them to Flickr so you can point out how effed-up the situation was. Even better: take video, and post it to Guba. Write down the
SF News Support our Troops' Trips From October 4 to October 9, all military personnel can ride Muni free of charge. With their Army-strong training in orienteering and reconnaissance, will soldiers have better luck navigating our local bus labyrinth?
SF News Hacking Muni Part One: How to Try to Catch a Bus We are SO THRILLED thatGavin wants to rescind parking passes and also to have all city vehicles impounded and converted into community gardens. Not only does that mean fewer cars on the road,
SF News Could a Skirt Have Saved Xiao Feng Deng's Life? Would skirts have helped? From some accounts, the victim was hit by the side of the bus as it turned, and pushed under the wheel. That certainly sounds plausible; we personally witnessed, a
SF News April Muni Payout: $107,425.49 Other big winners: Amal Elmoraly, getting $14,559; Kathleen Callinan getting $9,640.99, Erin Altman getting $5,949.50, Veronica Ogletree getting $4,500, and Ismath Hussain getting $3776. Those cases were
misc Local Gays Make Good, But Stay Local "Are SF days as a gay mecca over? Or is the list biased to LA, DC and NY media types?" Cedric asks. Excellent questions! The answers are no and yes, respectively. Readers, of
SF News Gotta Catch 'em All We love when bus riders catch Muni meltdowns in any format -- on tape, photos, or screengrabs. Seriously, it makes us giddy. But one reader pointed out yesterday that screengrabbing isn't an immediately
SF News Bitch Please The key point is to get lots of details. Either write them down, or text them to yourself, or call your voicemail and leave them as a message. Details are crucial: bus number,
SF News What You Can Ask to get a Better Prediction Yesterday, we explained why 311 is your new go-to number for all things bus-predictive. The operators at 311 have a wealth of data, y'see; much more than 511 has. But sometimes NextMuni lets
