SF News Muni to Throw Festival of Loud Noises Sorry this post is so last minute, but once again displaying their organization's characteristic timeliness, Muni sent out a press release at the end of the day on Wednesday, letting us know about
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: The Kitchen Sink Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy The unit has been around since 1999, created to handle mostly fare evasion or Proof of Payment "POP" starting with a group of approximately 20 persons-all transfers from other places in MUNI and
SF News SFist Blotter One person is dead after a dramatic shooting in the Sunset early Monday morning -- the shots were fired at a moving car, which then flipped over and crashed. The Chron has some
Arts & Entertainment Things Get Scrappy at the Cable Car Museum Yesterday we mentioned a book by Dr. Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria about transit that isn't sold at the museum. And in fact, the CCM has flat-out refused to sell any of their
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy As always, if you have any questions to either the driver or the security guy, e-mail us at [email protected]. Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast. Earlier this week, the Examiner
SF News Something to Read During Your Long Long Bus Ride ...the book tells the story of the Key Route’s transbay lines from the handsome 1903 wooden interurbans to the famous 1930s Bridge Units, the ornate Key Route Pier, the ferryboat fleet, and
SF News Breaking News-- People Don't Pay Full Fares on Cable Cars This information was uncovered by the MTA's crack team of Muni riding Ninjas who rode the cable car forty-two times and took notes. The good news is that the Muni Ninjas didn’t'
SF News American Football Spectacular: Two Bad Ideas Stumbled across two ideas while walking through the Powell cable car area. First up, no. Just no. Yes, Jeff was good. He is good. It is hard to watch him now making the
SF News This Week In Your Commute News First we turn to the water where an expected eight ferry terminals are to be built in the coming years to service all of those commuters who've moved far, far away from San
SF News SF Cable Cars: Not Climbing Halfway to the Stars Today Tourists looking for that oh so wonderul, oh so expensive cable car ride today were disappointed to discover that the Hyde Street and Mason Street cable cars were down this morning and still
SF News Grampa Newsom's MUNI Plan So after all that buildup -- it turned out that Newsom didn't have any new ideas at all, and basically gave out a Grampa Simpson list of MUNI complaints instead. [all actual Newsom
SF News Ding Ding! The San Francisco Treat It turns out Rice-A-Roni actually a San Francisco treat -- the family of the guy who currently runs the Napa Valley Wine Train ran a pasta business in the Mission in the 1930s,
SF News What We Would Have Told You About Today ...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: The Usual Suspects All good San Francisco political junkies have Usual Suspects bookmarked on their browser. The local clearinghouse of all things political keeps everyone up to date, diligently reading and summarizing all the articles about
SF News Your Commute: On The Blotter Lots of death and transit events to report today: Did you hear the helicopters whirring overhead in the Mission last night? The SFPD came in full force after reports of a serious shooting
SF News The Chron Calls Out The Cops We're taking a break from our usual SF Chronicle mockery for this irony-free moment: Well done! The Chron splashes the results of its years-long investigation into claims of police brutality in the SFPD
SF News Undercover Gavin While his going undercover is eminently snark-worthy, it is the typical politician who gets dinged for living too much in the bubble and not with the public. Would His Willieness ever feign riding
SF News Gavin Expresses Muni Thoughts, Our Eyes Roll So, Gavin's been pretty chatty about Muni lately, hasn't he? First up, he's alleging that some cable car operators are stealing fares, "because on three occasions he rode the cable cars and handed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Sporty Types For many commuters, running after public transportation doesn't sound like sport, it sounds like Monday morning. But, for some, it's a fun way to spend a Sunday. The Cable Car Chase is on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Counter-Intuitive Search For Coffee The last time we actually posted something in this column (as opposed to our contest cop-out), it ended with something like, "blah blah, sick of chalk menus, blah blah, cafes are all the
SF News F**k Arnold -- Nurses, Firefighters and Teachers Protest The Governator Update: Well, the updates didn't come as fast and furious as we though, as the crowd was very mobile, assembling at different intersections to block attendees and traffic at will. We kept trying
SF News Ah, The Muniserable SFist was having trouble getting to sleep last night, and we figured that short of the narcotics available down the street, actually reading the MTA's recently approved Fiscal Year 2006 budget would probably
SF News Your Commute: Cable Car Blues Maybe Rice-a-Roni's not the San Francisco treat anymore either -- as part of the Great MUNI Cost Hike of Ought-Five, the city is proposing raising fares on the cable cars from $3 to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Gallery Cafe is at the corner of Washington & Mason, right across from the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. Here, they dispense with the questions about "which bean" or "which blend." Your choices
