SF News There's a New Eleven in Town That's right -- 311 is doing the work that 511 promised but never delivered. Five-eleven still can't provide you with NextMuni info for buses, and you can't submit complaints about shoddy service; but
SF News Weekday Non-School Update! But that doesn't clear up the bigger questions: Why is it always so hard to get usable info from Muni? Why does Muni's website say that there's no difference between school and non-school
SF News More SHOCKING Photographs of Something You See Every Day Case in point: reader Jerry has helpfully supplied us with a host of photos of hydrant-hugging cars outside a fire-prone SRO hotel. (Thanks, Jerry!) Check out his Flickr stream for a slew of
SF News Supes Making Moves on Healthy Saturdays in Golden Gate Park(ing Lot) In two weeks, Healthy Saturday comes on a Monday! April 9, City Hall, 1pm: those party animals on the Land Use and Economic Development Committee will be throwing a sure-to-be-fun public hearing about
SF News Department of Homeand Security: Never Met a Fire Hydrant They Didn't Like It's a Homeland Security car parked right in front of a hydrant last Wednesday, at Folsom/18th in the "abandoned warehouse" section of the Mission. And look, there's another one in the very
SF News Weekday Non-School? For example, did you know that "On Cesar Chavez Day, March 30, 2007, weekday non-school schedules will be in effect"? Oh, you didn't? That must be because you don't check their alerts page
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings' Mom We're proud to present another week's worth of Yvesdroppings, only some of which are made-up. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might
SF News Gavin: Your Inability to Depend on Muni is a Mere "Pet Peeve" (Thanks for the tip, GavinWatch! We can't wait for your launch party tomorrow.) The always vigilant GW tipped us off to a heroic, anonymous San Franciscan who puts a question to Gavin about
SF News At Last, a way to Devote Even More of your Free Time to Transit First up: an update on Muni's Transit Effectiveness Project, tomorrow (Wednesday) at 312 Sutter Street (at Grant), Fifth Floor, from 12:30 to 1:30. And then the very next day (Thursday), a
Arts & Entertainment Another Feather in KRON's Cap "Shooting," we are told, "is due to start the third week of June, and rehearsals in April." If that works for your schedule, check out their auditions for puppeteers and VO artists next
SF News A Troublemaker, a Moron, and a Jerk Walk in to a Bar We've bolded the funniest parts, but really, you've got to read the whole thing. This guy just totally flipped out at SFist_Mattymatt (aka Matt Baume). Our favorite excerpt: "I would not be
SF News Muni Drivers: Not All Bad! Okay, our treatment of Muni drivers hasn't been totally kind lately, but that doesn't mean we hate them. We yearn -- -- to write some stories about awesome drivers. And lo and behold,
SF News More Metanews In case you missed our appearance on KPIX because you spent all day yesterday getting drunk and watching The Bridges of Madison County, here it is: Of all the things in the world
SF News The Presses: Stilllllllllllll Stopped. Can you believe we're going to be on the teevee AGAIN? It's CBS this time, tonight at probably 5:30, 6:30, and 11. The lesson here: if you want a ticket to
SF News Don't Want To Leave, But We Both Know ... Sometimes It's Better To Go So goodbye, old fiend. Time to step down to open that back door in the sky. Muni's tribute: Public transportation on Third Street began as a horsecar line and converted to electric streetcar
SF News The Presses: Stopped. So now that our Muni caterwauling has landed us on all the major local news stations (Fox doesn't count), let us compare their approaches. NBC offered to drop by our house after work;
SF News Muni Driver Celebrates Bring Your Girlfriend to Work Day Muni drivers, caught on tape! Again! This time, the driver doesn't come off quite so sympathetically. We caught the 33 home last night after hanging out at a high school cafeteria, and what's
SF News An Update on Text-Messaging Muni (Actually, as a commenter points out, the next best thing would be a smart automated solution. Any engineery readers want to tackle such a project? That would be totally awesome.) If you'd like
SF News March Muni Payout: $57,762.63 Muni is not without defense in the Food Bank fiasco: in their answer to the complaint, Muni claimed that the Food Bank knowingly placed itself at risk, so they refused to pay for
SF News Why Does 511 Suck So Much? Get ready to go down a transit rabbit hole. Last time we wrote about the crapfest that is 511.org, one of our commenters placed blame on military contractors. So we dusted off
SF News Muni Releases a few of its Cyber-Hostages Hooray! It's an awesome new day for Muni, or at least, it would be if this wasn't just reverting back to the way that things were in 2005. Longtime readers might remember that
SF News Muni's Secret Meeting About Your Children: Revealed! These meetings all are part of Muni's ongoing study on how it might go about sucking less. Allow us to suggest the following: STOP HIDING INFO IN WEB-UNFRIENDLY PDFs. It's like printing up
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings are in that Local Band Birdmonster We're proud to present another week's worth of Yvesdroppings, only some of which are made-up. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might
SF News Let None Escape Muni's Grasp With your support, the physically disabled will someday ride Muni with the same freedom and comfort that the mentally disabled already enjoy.
SF News Don't Rip Up Your Muni Passes Just Yet But wait. The Examiner, a local advertising flier, quotes Gavin thusly: "It's so much more complex than that." Oh. And when we spoke to Muni to get their side, they just directed us
