SF News All Together Now The case becomes even more intriguing because Walker, who as far as we can tell is not now nor has ever been a Texas Ranger, has already told the Feds that they can
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
SF News Your Commute Update So MUNI claims that your morning commute from the Sunset should be okay today, after yesterday's debacle in the Twin Peaks tunnel. Turns out there was indeed a derailment (of an L train,
SF News Muni Makes Us Drink (But This Time It's Free!) First, come out for the Richmond Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Newsom and Supervisor McGoldrick, this Saturday, July 29 from noon to 2 at Presidio Middle School (450 30th Ave between Geary and
misc Dear Mr Ford Warning: Contains loud profanity, so depending on where you work... SFist Cedric took this video last week on the 6 Parnassus. In his words: The female voice in the soundtrack paid $1, not
SF News Speed King So what are we to do about it? Well, there's creating more bus-only lines but that'll piss off businesses who are concerned about the loss of potential car-driving customers. See the fracas about
SF News Muni Demands Human Sacrifice Yet Again Don't look now, but there's been another Municide. Details are sketchy, but it looks like a bus hit a young woman on Market near the cablecar turnaround at 5pm. Traffic was closed down,
SF News Getting Your Money's Worth on Muni ... Even on the Days That it Isn't Free Here's the good news: you remember how Muni had NextBus info available for all the electric lines, but declined to make that info public, saying that the data wasn't reliable yet? Intrepid SFist
SF News Your Commute: Steal That Car! Let the ambulance-chasing jokes begin! A Stanford law student has pled no contest to charges that she stole an ambulance and drunk-drove it around town last October. Julia Powell, through her lawyer, claims
misc Dear Mr Ford: Special Bay To Breakers Edition After finishing the Bay to Breakers, my spouse and I were good little citizens and walked to the MUNI buses that were lined up to take us back toward downtown. We had paid
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Two NF: There’s an effort that’s going on right now which is the Transit Effectiveness Project, and it started before I got here. But similarly, we were doing something similar in Atlanta,
SF News CSI Plumpjack -- Cancelled The Chron's Leah Garchik gets all the good dirt -- she breaks the news in Friday's The In Crowd that Gavin Newsom has parted ways with Scientologist/actress Sofia Milos. Your gossip hounds
SF News The First Rule of NextBus: There is no NextBus All of the electric busses -- every single one, on every single electric line -- have NextBus transponders. They've had 'em since December. (The diesel busses are getting hooked up soon, too.) They've
SF News Your Commute: AC Transit No. 1 Well, now we feel guilty for taking BART to get to Oakland: the good drivers of the AC Transit won first place at the American Public Transportation Association "Bus Roadeo" event. AC Transit
SF News Ferry Accident People enjoying the nice weather on Saturday at Fisherman's Wharf got a nasty surprise as a Baylink ferry boat from Vallejo lost control of its steering and slammed into Pier 43. Nine people
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
misc Dear Mr Ford: Good (Kind Of) And Bad It wouldn't be Dear Mr Ford without an adventure with SFist Matt, would it? I must begrudgingly give Muni high marks for customer service today (even as I give it low marks for
misc Dear Mr Ford: Sometimes They Write Back Then again, judging from some of the responses we've seen, we're not sure if they're thorough or just trying to bore us to death. You'll see what we mean when you expand to
Arts & Entertainment It's Chappelle's Show, We Just Live In It Subject: Just overheard on the 6th bus heading downtown At 4th and Market, this average young white guy gets on all excited and calls his friend on his cell. He says, "oh my
SF News Your Commute: Are We SFist Jon Today? Are we SFist Jon today or what? Not only do we feel slightly cranky about this new Bonds on Bonds TV show (it should at least be Barry Bonds talking about low-risk investment
SF News Your Commute: Sucked Like It's Never Sucked Before We were about a hundred feet from the Millbrae station this morning when the train stopped. Then started to go back to the airport. The conductor announced over the loudspeaker that there was
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Rough-looking woman to rough-looking guy, both of indeterminate age: "I'm not an exhibitionist, I'm an inhibitionist." -- On the 71 Haight
SF News Guess What? Peeing in Public is ILLEGAL It's all rooted in the case of David McDonald, who was arrested and searched by Oakland police while urinating in a Berkeley parking lot. At the time, the office charged McDonald with littering
misc The Winner Is Deceitful Above All Things We have a winner in our Fake Tales of San Francisco contest! As you may recall, we're giving out "The Heart Is Deceitful" movie swag to the person who came up with the
Arts & Entertainment You Mean There's Actually Culture OUTSIDE the City? Inconceivable! It's about 70 miles north of the city, which might be a bit of a strain on your City CarShare budget, but you can always take the bus. No, really, you can --
