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 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 Mass Mess Day II- The Reckoning. According to bikers who saw the whole thing going down, Susan Ferrando, the driver of the mini-van didn't just slowly glide towards the intersection but hit the pedal to the medal and ran
SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
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 Instant Recall (District 1 Edition) The recall campaign, which is spearheaded in part by one of the six candidates who ran against McGoldrick for the Board of Supes seat and lost (David Heller), is focusing primarily on McGoldrick's
SF News Woman Killed After Being Hit by Muni Bus This was the second Muni related incident in a month as someone was struck and killed on the J-Church line.
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
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 Ask a Muni Driver Suppose I start at 11AM. When the bus that I take over arrives 15 minutes late, I have to play catch up. I am essentially doing my "follower's" (the bus after you) job.
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 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 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
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 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 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 From the Editor's In Box "I had the most satisfying experience the other night...a huge-ass SUV with an over-sensitive car alarm that had been tormenting us for hours...GOT TOWED!! I'd never seen that before...so immensely
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
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 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
misc SFist Answers: Bono & Sickness Please, for your sake, send Questions you want Answered to [email protected], and we will do our best to provide. That means you, Justin. Ahh, here we are: Q: A: It certainly
