SF News Hey, Whatever Happened to That Downtown SF Congestion Pricing Plan? ‘It’s Been Paused,’ SFMTA Says As the state of New York barrels ahead with congestion pricing to battle climate change, a similar plan for San Francisco has been shelved, likely to the relief of retailers and small business owners.
SF News ’Carmageddon’ Predicted To Snarl 101-Alemany Boulevard Area Much Of Next Summer When even Caltrans is referring to a construction event as “Carmageddon,” you can expect miles-long traffic jams, and this one’s scheduled to disrupt travel on the 101 around Portola next summer.
SF News Uber And Lyft Responsible For Two-Thirds Of Downtown Traffic Violations In our latest installment of No, It's Not Just You, we address your conspiracy theory that Lyft and Uber drivers are causing disproportionate problems in bike lanes, transit lanes, and all places that
SF News Plan To Charge Toll On Crooked Stretch Of Lombard Screeches To Halt The beleaguered residents of Lombard Street's most popular stretch will remain under tourist siege for the near future, it appears, after a proposal to decrease tourist traffic via a toll system was stalled
SF News Guy Who Just Moved Here Says Traffic Sucks, Suggests We All Take Turns Working From Home Don't you just hate traffic? And don't you wish there was just one easy step we could all take to, you know, make it less sucky? Well one man thinks he has landed
SF News Man Quits Google Because Of 'Congested, Racist, Incestuous, And Overpriced' Bay Area Is the Bay Area congested, racist, incestuous, and overpriced? That's what one of Google's current developer advocates believes, which is why he is leaving the company. Well-known coder, entrepreneur, and all around tech
SF News BART Strike: Interstate 80 And 580 Nightmare While neither the 80 nor the 580 are particularly roomy during Monday commutes, today's BART strike just announced at midnight, made the trek from the East Bay to San Francisco even that more
SF News Bay Area Traffic Now Just As Bad As Los Angeles Bay Area commuters have been banging their heads against the wheel for years, if not decades. But according to an annual study by researchers at Texas A&M University, this year marks
SF News Subtracting a Cash Lane, Adding a New FasTrak Lane on Bay Area Bridges Proposed Drivers without FasTrak, be sure to get one within the next year to avoid further cash bridge toll headaches. In an effort to decrease toll-collection costs, ease congestion, and encourage more drivers to
misc Let's Dream of a Non-Wretched Fisherman's Wharf Oh, sure, you've seen all the coverage of Jan Gehl's plan to turn Fisherman's Wharf into something tolerable. But wouldn't you like to know more? The excellent SPUR is holding a forum TODAY
SF News Oracle Open World Chaos to Commence Okay, granted, we're personalizing this a bit. We digress. But Oracle Open World causes so much congestion in the downtown/SOMA area; we're surprised that this is still allowed to go on. But
SF News Baby, You Can Charge My Car That idea of congestion pricing in San Francisco, meaning charging people to drive in certain places around the city, has moved from crazy pipe dream stage to crazy pipe dream planning stage. Recently,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a
SF News Ask Not For Whom Doyle Drive Tolls The city's been trying to get the money to fix the road for ages, and have finally gotten the feds to agree -- but the feds will only kick in money if we
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going
SF News SFist Blotter A lot of weird car accidents in the news yesterday: an impatient guy trying to pass around congestion on the road killed a pedestrian on 19th Avenue in San Francisco, a drunk off-duty
SF News If I Can Make It There, It'll Make it Anywhere Guess it's not that much of a nutty idea. Now because it's New York, it's instantly taken more seriously because it's New York and everything is taken more seriously there (damn East Coast
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 Today in Transportation -The Chron discovers that there's plenty of fare-evading scofflaws out there in MUNI land. And not only that, it's one of the reasons for MUNI's budget deficit. Anyways, yadda… yadda… yadda… increasing the
SF News MUNI By the Numbers Anyways, the Chron did a story and discovered that MUNI has a lot of problems right now, mainly that it's on time only 70% of the time. That's 15% lower than mandated by
SF News Downtown Train Now that the T-Third is up and running, we can all start focusing on the next big MUNI project, the central subway. This is a proposed underground that would go from near the
SF News That's HOT How this sucker will work is that if a car wants to drive in the car-pool and doesn't have somebody to drive with them to make it a car pool (hey, you could
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is? Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so
SF News Your Commute: Going Back to Nowhere Even more troubling, the same ole trouble spots are the same ole trouble spots. Part of the study includes the Top 10 Most #1 Congested Spots and nine out of the top ten
SF News Your Commute: Road Slowdowns Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? Our press-loving governor thought it'd be a fun stunt to sign a bill to reduce congestion at the always-jammed Caldecott Tunnel. Isn't it ironic, then, that as
