SF News Your Commute: On Fire. Seriously There was an evacuation of trains on the Fremont and Dublin-Pleasanton BART lines after a fire at a substation knocked out power to part of the system. The fire started at about 10:
SF News Best MUNI Line Poll Reminder We'll have this poll running til Friday at noon so if you want to help your favorite MUNI line win (or, hell, any MUNI line), keep on voting.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! First Stop: Van Kleef's At first, we thought the lonely, empty feel of downtown Oakland after Five kind of depressed us. But no longer! Now we're happy to spend our happy hours (and extended happy hours) at
SF News Your Commute: Fight! We can't decide if we're sorry we missed this, or if we're extremely grateful that we take BART to work in the mornings. So around 7:30 a.m. this morning, an SUV
SF News We Have a Winner As you can see, the 38 Geary tied with the 30 Stockton in another big of a surprise as the 38 was leading for most of the week. Maybe it was all the
SF News BART Extensions The money comes from the California Transportation Commission and is more than half the $700 million that the Valley Transportation Authority needs to do the engineering on it. In fact, the engineering has
SF News ...And They Have a Plan In order to do this, we'll need to do things like go bike riding instead of driving, use car pool lanes, plant more trees and keep those trees that we have from dying,
SF News The Warriors: A Decent Time Out For the past few seasons, the Warriors primary marketing slogan has been, A Great Time Out". Brimming with hope after Tuesday's trade, SFist decided to catch a game at the O-rena to find
SF News No More Neon Sign Heaton does say that the crosses served their purpose and brought attention to the war in light of what Condi Rice called merely an "augmentation." Unfortunately, as we all know, it's George Bush's
Arts & Entertainment Martin Luther King Day Events There's a whole bunch of events going on today, most of which are either happening now or have already started. We would have gotten to this post earlier, but like a lot of
SF News Your Fun MUNI Story of the Day We got this story from Friend of SFist, Ian about his MUNI adventure over the weekend. We were on a 43 bus last night that was hit by a drunk driver on Haight
Arts & Entertainment What's Up For the New Year So with that in mind, what is there to do tomorrow night? Well, we don't know actually as it's looking like it'll be movie night, but for those of you looking to go
SF News Delays: Not Just For BART Anymore The other MUNI rail-line to experience trouble was the J which this morning also went down. The trouble there was not wind related, but an issue with the "pantograph." The pantograph is not
SF News Your Commute: BART Gets Off the Good Foot Anyways, the cause was actually a cover board, the metal that covers the third rail, came lose at the West Oakland station around 7:15 so they could only run one train at
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News Flying Out of Oakland? The easiest way of getting to the Oakland airport is AirBart. AirBart is a bus service that runs from the Oakland Coliseum BART station to the airport. It's only two bucks (plus whatever
SF News Crosses Vandalized The crosses have been a source of controversy since they were put up months ago. Despite it being said to be "in memory" of all the troops killed in the war, it's seen
Arts & Entertainment Monopoly This whole thing started when the San Jose Mercury put itself up for sale, or it's overlords Knight Ridder did. In swept MediaNews, who bought it from McClatchy Newspapers who owned the Mercury
misc Holiday Gift Guide Reminder What exactly are these things? Well, they allow you to ride free on BART for New Year's Eve and parts of New Years Day. Pretty cool, n'est pas? No drunkenly fumbling for your
SF News We Got a Ticket to Ride This is actually the second time it's been tested. The first time they tried, in 2004, they had problems finding a way of synching up to all the various transit systems. Not to
SF News Can't We All Just Get Along? The problem is that BART isn't bringing in enough money to help the extension and so there's not enough money to run the sucker. Since it was supposed to be a dual operation,
SF News Your Commute: Unflappable Look how disappointed this YouTube poster is that no one paid attention to him sitting on the ceiling of the BART. (3:06, but half of the clip is just the same footage
Arts & Entertainment Is Green A Verb? As we discussed earlier today, PG&E and ReadyMade magazine are co-sponsoring "Let's Green This City," which is aiming to raise environmental consciousness by putting sofas covered with grass around the city.
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is Called? But there's also some techy news to this story too as Cisco, the company which owns the property the proposed stadium will be built, plans to go all Cypberpunk on the stadium, turning
SF News Mea Culpa, Bay Guardian Well, the post went up, and we were promptly contacted by the Guardian themselves, who (rather forcefully) clarified that the candidates paid for the , not for the endorsements. The Guardian endorses in an
