SF News Muni Chief Ed Reiskin To Step Down Following Friday System Meltdown Bowing to pressure from the mayor and others, the SFMTA's transit chief of eight years, Ed Reiskin, announced Monday that he would be stepping down in August.
SF News SFMTA Warns That Upcoming Time Change Could Kill Pedestrians San Francisco's streets are perilous ones for pedestrians, we all know that to be true. But a blog post by the head of San Francisco's transit agency warns that they are about to
SF News Despite Safety Gains, Effort To Remove Mission Transit Lane Continues Despite evidence that the Mission Street transit-only lanes have drastically reduced collisions, and the dearth of evidence that they have negatively impacted merchants, Supervisor David Campos and SFMTA's Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin
SF News SFMTA Chief Says Nevius Fare Evasion To Be Investigated Welp, it sounds like Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius's choice to write about a recent incident in which he failed to pay for his Muni ride, got busted, and then didn't get a
SF News A Dozen Muni Lines Will Be Disrupted By Super Bowl Fan Village As more details arrive about preparations for the eight-day Super Bowl 50 celebration in SF, we learn that "about a dozen" Muni bus lines, including the F-Market streetcar, will be disrupted by the
SF News Mayor, Board of Supervisors Actually Required By Law to Ride Muni This is news to us: A 1993 ballot measure, sponsored by a group led by Jerry Brown, made it official city policy that the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and other top city
SF News It's Officially Curtains For Sunday Parking Meters: No More Enforcement As Of July 1 And that's how San Francisco's brief flirtation with Sunday Parking meter enforcement ends, folks, not with a bang, but with a whimper. It was all the way back in February, 2012 when the
SF News Muni Tells Everyone They Probably Shouldn't Take Muni Home Tonight @sfmta_muni just around the corner #muni pic.twitter.com/shLWXdXZaZ— Roy McKenzie (@RoyMcKenzie) June 2, 2014 Regarding today's Muni sick-out: the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has let everyone know they shouldn't
SF News Central Subway to Extend to North Beach? Amid lawsuit threats and much hemming and hawing from local businesses, Muni chief Ed Reiskin has a new proposal for the Central Subway. Rather than opening up the subway tunnel at the Chinatown
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Municipal Railway... Mayor Ed Lee celebrated 100 years of San Francisco's Municipal Railway today by re-launching Muni's first streetcar, the restored Car No. 1. Joining the Mayor for the dignitaries-only first ride in the century-old
SF News DPW Director Ed Reiskin Gets Top Job at SFMTA Well that was quick. The Chronicle reports today that the current director of the Department of Public Works has gotten the nod from the Municipal Transit Agency to fill the void left by