SF News Mark it on Your Muni Calendar Translink rollout: For Muni, "late fall/early winter of 2007," and for all Bay Area transit, "2010." Translink is that little swipey dongle that'll let you ride
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%
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
SF News Let it Ride At last night's meeting, they talked about ways to make up the budget shortfalls. Proposed ideas are the usual ones: lots of fee increases (parking, license and tickets) and selling residential
Arts & Entertainment Check Out SFist MattyMatt! As we promised earlier, SFist MattyMatt was indeed on! NBC 11 News this evening -- in the sweet spot right before the weather! -- talking about his 33 MUNI bus video clip with the fare
SF News Your Commute: One Dollar More While the extra money will go to retrofitting, the new snazzy Bay Bridge suspension bridge redesign is what triggered the increase in the first place -- you may recall that when Schwarzenegger tried to
SF News Flying Out of Oakland? The easiest way of getting to the Oakland airport is AirBart. AirBart is a bus service that runs from the Oakland Coliseum BART station to the airport. It's only two bucks
SF News American Football Spectacular: Time For Cold Weather American Football The National Football League's Week Nine of the 2006 regular season is upon us here in the Bay Area, as well as the first tinge of wet weather. Curl up on
SF News Your Commute: Dublin/Pleasanton Delays Expect 30-45 minute delays systemwide, as they try to get a bus bridge in place. And not like this'll help you unless you read SFist on a PDA, but they&
SF News Taxi Fares Might Be Going Up, Up, Up... The proposal, however, was squashed by the Board of Supes who were not big fans of the idea. Now, we heard a story about this on KCBS where we heard a bunch of
SF News SFist Editorial: Edward Champion on Muni But this Wednesday morning was a different routine with a different set of rules. I should note from the onset that I've found most MUNI drivers to be kind and helpful.
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
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <em>The First Zionist Bunny</em> The movie basically follows the contestants who try out to be the host of the brand new Israeli Playboy channel. This apparently was a big deal but we get no sense of just
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we'
SF News Spare Us! Even SFist Jon's refraining from his usual earth-killing self-absorption and staying off the road in his evil, evil car! Instead, he'll be live blogging the Australia vs
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Selected Shakespeare San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park returns with starring the magnificent Julian Lopez-Morrilas as Prospero. (If you haven't seen this man in action, you're missing
SF News Holy Freaking Mother of Christ: More Fare Increases and Service Cuts Predicted for Muni Who, you may ask, is responsible for bumping the prices up and quality down? There's a bunch of names indicated by SPUR's report: there's the Geary Blvd
SF News BART Fire Aftermath Now that yesterday's BART fire is out and trains are moving again, the inevitable finger-pointing has begun. Who bears the blame here? Is it BART? Why does BART use flammable
SF News Fun with BART BART is a far less colorful subject, but that doesn't make it any less of an object of obsession for some. Two BART-related treats have come across our desk lately,
SF News Paying For a Muni Ride (And Other Activities for Chumps) Hey, take one guess: what's the worst place on the web for finding up-to-date news about Muni? That would be Muni's very own website, of course, which
SF News Cab Fare Increases Are the New MUNI Fare Increases The reason for all this is due to the standard reasons: increases in gas rates and cost of living expenses. We would have a measure of sympathy about this, but as we all
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
SF News Don’t You Know the BART Fare is Going Up, Up, Up, Up, Up? A lot of things are changing come this new year. Like our sobriety. And our slack attempts at losing weight. But perhaps the biggest change that will affect us is that starting Sunday,
misc The 'Fisties: Most Ineffective Activism But all those totally unsuccessful efforts pale in comparison to 2005's greatest activism-loser: the Muni fare strike. Because it could've been so awesome, if it had worked. There
misc The 'Fisties: Best News Story 2005 So here's a random selection of our favorites from 2005. Did we leave out yours? Best Daly: Our favorite post this year? The provocative interview of Chris Daly's better
