SF News BRT Not BART The plan, called BRT (couldn't they have chosen something slightly different from another mode of pub trans in the area? All this stuff is confusing enough without having to someday contemplate a BRT
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day On BART That wasn't all, though -- while the downtown trains were jerking their way eastward, the Millbrae trains were then hit with the dreaded . So basically, no one's going anywhere today. Interestingly, this is
Arts & Entertainment Bill Clinton, Prop 87, And Civic Center Mike Yay, Civic Center Mike's back from Palm Springs! And what should he stumble upon while wheeling his suitcases out of the BART station but Bill Clinton's Yes on 87 Rally! (87 is the
SF News The Warriors: Opening night Dujuan Wagner, Adonal Foyle, and Zarko Cabarkapa are riding the pine in suits tonight. For the opposition Lakers, Kobe won't play, and Phil Jackson, Kwame Brown, and Aaron McKie, and Chris Mihm may
SF News Your Commute: Down on the Upside First up is MUNI which is now using the 1 California to test out a new system to ensure busses are on time. Why the 1 California? Because Gavin got in a tiff
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Hills Fire, 15 Years Later We weren't living in California at the time, but we remember the Cal student in our dorm the next semester telling us her harrowing stories of escaping with nothing more than her cat
SF News BART Comes Up With a Great Idea Why do we like this idea? Because usually when a transit system or government says they need to find new ways for funding, they form a committe and hire a bunch of consultants
SF News Your Commute: Dublin/Pleasanton Delays Expect 30-45 minute delays systemwide, as they try to get a bus bridge in place. And not like this'll help you unless you read SFist on a PDA, but they're offering refunds for
SF News Blackout! We don't know much of the details as there doesn't seem to be a lot of news on it out there right now. We just know we were halfway through reading Deadspin when
SF News Your Commute: Caltrain Delays Ambulances have been called, special tools are being used to extract the car, and bus bridges haven't yet been in put into place. Here's the first word we've seen online. There was also
Arts & Entertainment The Woozy Adventures of the Superfisters The gimmick is as follows: you dream something, then you email Jesse to tell him about it, and then he draws up a spiffy four-panel illustration of your tormented, soul-baring, saucy imaginings. Opening
SF News Your Commute: BART and Caltrain Isn't everyone glad the Bay Bridge is reopened? Well, maybe not BART -- they're reporting a 13% increase in ridership over Labor Day weekend, including 10,200 riders who used the overnight service.
SF News Your Commute: No Bridge, Just Tunnel You know how everyone says San Francisco is a little bubble utopia isolated from the realities of the rest of the world? Well, you might as well embrace it this Labor Day, because
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Islands On Islands Go to the Forbidden Island in Alameda. Billing itself as Alameda’s “first and only tiki lounge,” it’s a first-class joint for picking up drinks with props. More importantly, however, these drinks
Arts & Entertainment Fun On Public Transit It's so much fun to complain about public transportation that we sometimes forget it's almost just as fun to take it (well, sometimes, anyways.) Here's two events that'll bring a bright ding-ding to
SF News Your Commute: Two BART Accidents At around 1:25 p.m., BART was informed that the body of a man was seen under a train at the Union City stop. BART halted all trains from South Hayward to
SF News We Have Something Nice to Say About MUNI-- No Really Anyways, we had dinner with friends at the Fillmore Grill (yummy food, by the way-- we highly recommend the Zinfandel Braised Lamb Shank) Wednesday night and went out to wait for the good
misc SFist Rants: When the Olympics Committee Comes A-Calling We’re considering booking our dream vacation now if the Olympic Games will be in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles or Chicago in 2016. Maybe it's a chance to try apartment or
SF News Thanks For Stuffing The Ballot Boxes For Us! Thanks for reading us, everyone, and thanks for voting for us too. We're thrilled to be in such august company as Taqueria Cancun and Green Apple Books (and Baker Beach, which has a
SF News Hot Hot Heat A Stage 2 emergency is called when power reserves dip below five percent (they're normally not supposed to get lower than seven percent). At this point, no rolling blackouts are planned, but businesses
SF News I Saw Chris Daly We love a good Chris Daly sighting story! A reader writes in to tell us that Chris Daly is at this very moment hanging out outside the 16th Street BART stop, collecting the
SF News Delays In Service It's not often that we have sympathy for agencies' delayed-service problems, but allow us to go all BART apologist Linton Johnson and/or SFPD apologist Neville Gittens on you here and offer our
SF News This Week's BART Screw Up Today's problem-- train stuck in the Transbay Tube for over an hour. Ouch. That's gotta suck. There you are, stuck in a train, somewhere deep underneath hundreds of feet of water, thinking that
Arts & Entertainment It Was A Dark And Stormy Night Yet another reason for Cody's to close -- writing like this! San Jose State University runs the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Writing contest -- and has announced this year's winner. Bulwer-Lytton is, of course,
SF News Your BART Breakdown of the Week As a result, twenty-four out of fifty-five trains ran late. There was no train service from Richmond into San Francisco or down to Daly City and everything but the Dublin-Pleasanton line was turned
