Arts & Entertainment Video: Inside SF's Cable Car Carpentry Shop Since it's San Francisco Appreciation Week, how about a look inside the cable car carpentry and repair shop that you may not have known existed here in the city. As the SFMTA's blog
Arts & Entertainment Female Cable Car Operator Competes In Bell Ringing Contest For First Time In 52-Year History Every day, San Francisco cable car operators bring a piece of local history to life, and that's pretty cool. In fact, today marks a particularly fun day for those operators because, as they
SF News Powell Street To Be Partially Closed To Traffic In Pedestrian Safety Pilot Frequenters of the unmitigated madhouse that is the strip of Powell Street between Geary and Ellis Streets have reason to celebrate this morning, as the SFMTA has approved a pilot program that would
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Pass Cable Cars! Two cable car operators were hit earlier this year. And now @sfmta_muni is working to make the iconic job safer. http://t.co/p77rsOaDHW— KQED News (@KQEDnews) August 12, 2015 Following on
SF News Giants Pitcher Jake Peavy To Buy Cable Car For His Alabama Estate Casualties of this year's World Series win included 28 trashed Muni vehicles, and now Giants pitcher Jake Peavy and his brother Luke might be picking off one more member of the fleet. As
Arts & Entertainment Incredibly Accurate LEGO Cable Car Includes People From The Midwest, German Tourists Forget going to Mars, here's the nerdiest toy we'd like like to see on the shelves of City Target: LEGO brick/transit history aficionado Michael J. has created a delightfully detailed plastic brick
SF News Antique Public Transit Is Dangerous, Might Turn You Into A Nymphomaniac Over the weekend, the Associated Press uncovered an open secret about San Francisco's storied cable car system: They are old and expensive! And also dangerous! And one time a woman successfully sued Muni
SF News Russian Hill Water Main Break Causes Flooding Over near Mason and Filbert, a water main erupted causing all sorts of havoc. Two blocks on Filbert were without water for a few hours this morning before being restored. The water department
SF News Hyde Street Cable Car Line Currently Out Of Commission Attention Holiday shoppers and anyone looking to add a scenic cable car ride to their holiday weekend activities: the Hyde Street line is currently out of order until further notice due to an
SF News Powell Street Cable Car Service Halted for Now Sorry Tourists and Nob Hill historic transit fans: Bay City News reports the Powell Street Cable Car lines are currently out of commission until further notice. Muni officials spotted a problem with one
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 24: Muni or Death, A Mayor's Tale Remember that time the mayor wanted to do away with San Francisco's Cable Cars? Of course you don't, it was in the 1940s. Here now, the Tenderloin Geographic Society adds historical perspective to
SF News Reminder: Muni Passes, Cable Car Fares and Tolls Get a Bit More Expensive Today Sales taxes might be dropping slightly today, but prices for services getting you around the Bay Area are going up a bit. Muni's regular monthly Fast Passes got a $2 bump, so you'll
SF News Cable Car Lines Shut Down This Week The Powell-Mason, Powell-Hyde, and California cable car lines will be shut down today through Sunday for "repairs and upgrades" as part of the SFMTA Cable Car Improvement Project. SF Appeal notes: "Muni shuttle
SF News No Powell-Mason Service Today Oh, the joys of the cable car commuter: To breezily rush out the door at the sound of the gripman's bell. To feel the California sun on your face and the cool Bay
SF News Cable Cars Are Dangerous, Expensive and Break Sometimes. Still Historic Though. This morning the Examiner posted a breakdown of payouts from lawsuits that followed a couple of cable car mishaps. According to the report, the 2008 derailing of a car on the Powell-Mason line
SF News Man Leaps to His Death Off Forever 21 Building A man wearing only underwear got out on a ledge yesterday afternoon at 10 Cyril Magnin (the building at the base of Powell that was formerly a big Bank of America and now
SF News Powell Cable Cars Down The Powell cable cars are down this morning after a delivery tuck accidentally rammed a lamp post, which then fell and smashed into a window at Game Stop at 151 Powell. SFist talked
SF News Citation, All I Ever Wanted. Citation, Having to Get Away With Gavin caught up in a tough re-election campaign against...ummm...well...huh.... he's started playing up his street people street cred. Recently, he announced a plan to deal with all the vagrants
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy And with that, let's get it on. It'd be cool if the streetcars could have fare machines in the cars like the ones on the platforms out on the Embarcadero. Sometimes you can't
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 Best MUNI Line Poll Vote early, vote often and the winner will be announced on Friday. PS- the Ask a MUNI Driver feature will appear tomorrow. We're too hungover to post it today. Get Free Opinion Polls
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink K to Zed Try and think of somewhere, in the heart of San Francisco, that you can dine on South Indian specialities like Dosa and Uttapam. Not such an easy question, is it? Ok, just to
