SF News AC Transit Bus Crash In SoMa Injures At Least Four @ktvu bus crash on fremont st. Not sure if there are injuries. pic.twitter.com/QcYm6zfVz3— Art Perrin (@Gimpsly) September 27, 2017 An AC Transit bus traveling on Fremont Street around 9:20
Arts & Entertainment Newly Rebranded Cabin, A Sleep-Pod Bus From SF To LA, Starts Service Next Week by Rebecca Cohen For two weeks in April 2016, you could board a bus in San Francisco, climb into a personal sleeping pod with fresh linens and free wi-fi, and wake up the
SF News Shuttle Bus Operator Bauer's Adding 30 Vehicles To SF Fleet Despite Contested Muni Stop Permit Shuttle Bus operator Bauer's Intelligent Transportation, whose black, monolithic motor coaches carry employees from clients like Cisco, Zynga, and Electronic Arts, plans to add 30 vehicles to its already sizable fleet, expanding service
SF News Due To Faulty Counters, Muni Ridership Numbers Have Been Wrong For At Least Two Years According to automatic passenger counters, between fiscal years 2014 and 2015 ridership declined on Muni motor coaches by by 3.4 percent and on trolley coaches by 7.3 percent. Wait, what? Muni
SF News Perma-Locked Muni Seats Are Free To Sit In At Last For more than two years, some seats on Muni buses have been perpetually in the up position, locked and unusable. The move was made to limit liability after the company that builds Muni
SF News Elon Musk Hints At Project For Autonomous Mass Transit Option “I don’t want to talk too much about it," billionaire CEO Elon Musk said secretively at a transportation conference in Norway yesterday according to Bloomberg. "I have to be careful what I
SF News Muni Proposes Tiered Pricing System That Penalizes Cash With 25-Cent Surcharge Yesterday evening the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency adopted a new budget that, if approved by the Board of Supervisors, will penalize commuters who purchase tickets the old fashioned way with good ol'
SF News New Muni Buses Can't Handle San Francisco's Hills On a beautiful Earth Day last year, SFMTA officials excitedly unveiled the first of sixty brand new electric trolley buses purchased by the city of San Francisco. In conjunction with 61 new biodiesel-electric
SF News Private Shuttle Service Chariot Swears They're For Everyone, Adds New Routes (Maybe) Private shuttle service Chariot is a transportation alternative for everyone (they promise!), and they're launching new routes this week (well, maybe) to prove it. In what is perhaps best read as a business
SF News New Private Bus Service Called Chariot Is Charioting Marina Folk Downtown Another terrible new development in our transit landscape has arrived: Chariot, a private bus service that is currently serving two routes in the morning and evening, both of them catering to Marina dwellers.
SF News Will This New Muni Map Make Life Any Easier? Two volunteer cartographers, we're told, have been working for ten years to improve upon Muni's current, highly confusing bus and Metro route map, which is a convoluted tangle of rainbow squiggles, inexplicable boxes,
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Skater Pulls A Marty McFly On Corporate Shuttle Seen here totally shredding, a brave skater boy skitching on a corporate shuttle in San Francisco. And for those of you who don't know who or what a Marty McFly is: ugh, here
SF News NIMBY Watch: Angry 'Full House' Neighbors Edition If you moved in front of, say, Lombard Street or the Powerhouse, you'd except some sort of tourist-related melee, yes? Well, don't tell that to the neighbors in Alamo Square who have had
SF News Muni's Performance By The Numbers At a Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting Monday, SFMTA director of transit John Haley trumpeted the improvements the MTA says they're seeing in Muni's on-time performance stats over
SF News S.F. To Start Charging Tech Company Shuttles Mayor Ed Lee and the SFMTA have reached an agreement with a coalition of tech companies whose behemoth employee shuttles have sparked protests for their use of public bus stops. Today, Lee announced
SF News The Year In Muni Failures As we noted yesterday, it wasn't the worst year we can remember our municipal transit system having in recent memory, but it wasn't a great one! Here's our roundup of the ways in
SF News UC Berkeley J-School And Genentech Partner For Something Totally Ethical No problem here, folks. Just Mission Local (a popular neighborhood blog run by the UC system's graduate school of journalism at UC Berkeley) and Genentech getting cozy to bedazzle private buses. Why? Because
SF News AC Transit Strike Averted In Last-Minute Deal A possible strike was called off hours before the midnight deadline that would have seen 1,800 drivers, mechanics, and AC Transit dispatchers walk off the job in labor disputes. The compromise calls
SF News 38 Geary Catches Fire Oh dear. A 38 Geary line in the Outer Richmond caught fire this morning. The minor blaze erupted at around 6:45 a.m. in the engine of as the bus was parked
Arts & Entertainment Don't Forget: Race Against the 22 Fillmore Today At 6pm Ack! You have a little over two hours to prepare for the Motion Starved's annual Race the 22 Fillmore, wherein denizens compete with the 22 bus. Can you do it? Yes, you can
SF News Mayor Lee Unveils New Fleet Of Hybrid Muni Buses That Immediately Break Down [Updated] In a press conference this morning Mayor Lee intended to unveil a brand new fleet of 62 biodiesel-electric hybrid Muni coaches. Unfortunately for the Mayor and the Municipal Railway's public relations team, the
Arts & Entertainment This SF Live Bus Map Makes Us Feel Like Everything Might Be Okay Ever wonder where in the name of all that's holy all the buses in SF are? Sure, you've got reliable prediction times, but something about waiting for a bus on an abandoned, windswept
SF News Market Street Revamp Could Divide Cyclists And Buses A new proposal for the $350 million Better Market Street project could divide people—literally. The proposal involves moving the 14-Mission to Market Street and widening the lanes while routing all cyclist traffic
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1980s Bus Driver Training Film Will Prepare You For Any Bay Area Transit Situation If there's anything easier to make fun of than the 1980s in general, it is definitely San Francisco's local transit system. Which is why this training video for Bay Area bus drivers, apparently
