SF News Still Facing Major Budget Deficit, BART Raises Fares 5.5% Starting In January BART announced a fare hike starting January 1 which will raise the average train fare about 25 cents, in order to partly address looming budget deficits in the coming fiscal years.
misc BART Delays This Morning What better way to celebrate the new BART fare hikes than a 30 minute train delay on the first official day of work in 2008? It kind of threw the new train schedule
SF News The Telephone Hour From the moment you first plugged it in, your home telephone has been waiting for the moment when its existence would be justified. And now! At last! The Gavin Newsom '08 Phone Bank
SF News Stuart "Fare Hike" Sunshine Fails Upward, Lands in Mayor's Office We don't have anything funny to say about this one -- we're simply at a loss. Rumor had it yesterday that Gavin picked Stuart Sunshine to be his new Deputy Chief of Staff,
SF News Muni Fare Strike an Overwhelming Success The strike was organized -- magificently, we might add -- by socialstrike.net. But we can't thank only them; according to their whois info, they received support, and this is true, from riseup.
SF News A STERN Rebuke, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA So ... hmm. Could it be, political games still plague MUNI? No, surely not! That the MTA's board is appointed, rather than just voted on, was supposed to finally put an end to political
SF News What Goes Up, Sometimes Doesn't Come Down Of course, you could always not pay. To protest the fare increases, local activists have been calling for a fare strike. For the past several months, they've been handing out flyers, posting posters,
SF News Your Commute: We're Waiting.... ....and waiting.... and waiting.... and there's still no word on whether we're having a BART strike or not. Even getting bored of hitting "refresh" on the sfgate.com window, and as you guys
SF News Wanted: New MUNI Boss Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took
SF News Political Junkie: He Ain't No Hollaback Supe This really is bananas! Just like Gwen Stefani, Supervisor Chris Daly stuck it to the student teachers (stomp stomp), getting ev'rybody riled up (stomp stomp). He ain't no hollaback supe -- he ain't
SF News Et Tu, BART First MUNI announced they wanted to raise fares. Then Caltrain hopped on board the fare raising train (ha! we made a pun). And now BART. Why, raising fares is the new black. Thanks
Arts & Entertainment Everyone Loves a Parade Part Deux Of course, this being San Francisco, you can't have a group of people getting together in silly costumes without their being some sort of socio-political ramification to it all and, fret not, there
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
SF News Fair Fares Part Deux The protests against the fare hike opened with the traditional forming of the slightly-over-the-type-named organization with the slightly-over-the-top political agenda, the Coalition for Transit Justice. On Tuesday, they and others held a rally