SF News Muni Redesigns Their Train Seat Layout Yet Again, With Double-Seats and ‘Butt Dimples’ Barely two years after the last seat redesign, the new Muni light-rail fleet is getting another redesign for its seats, with more double-seating and the butt dimples intact to comfort your ‘back door.’
SF News Fresh Flaws Found in New Muni Train Cars as It Turns Out They Rear-End Each Other The “Fleet of the Future” takes another hit — literally — as double cars are found prone to detaching and bumping into one another.
SF News Why Muni's New Light Rail Trains, Now Slowly Arriving, Have All Benches Instead Of Seats Last week — ominously on Friday the 13th — the first new Muni Metro light-rail train arrived in San Francisco after assembly in Sacramento, a sign that the transit agency's much-anticipated "Fleet of the Future"
SF News Muni Still Isn't Sure How To Pay For Those Fancy New Trains They Keep Talking About We've been talking about Muni's glorious new light rail fleet for a while — in fact, it was over two years ago that we ran the numbers on the (at the time) $1.2
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Give Green Light To 'LightRail' Art Project Up Market Street At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, the Supes unanimously approved a proposal by the foundation that brought us The Bay Lights to install another light-based art project, this one up Market Street from
SF News Supervisors Testing Fewer Seats, Wider Aisles On Muni Trains If you took an N-Judah to work and noticed a lot more standing room, you can thank Supervisors London Breed and Scott Wiener, who pushed for more strap-hanging and less seat-hogging on light
SF News J-Church Accident this Afternoon Awhile back, Greg wrote that he didn't want The N Judah Chronicles to become the "let's all talk about people getting hurt and killed blog." Alas, the injury count seems to have gone
SF News Please let go of the Doors Oh how we hate that high-pitched whine generated by held-open subway doors. It hurts, but of course, that's the -- it's supposed to make you let go of the door so the whole
SF News Rescue Geary As always, the project's being held up by a one or two critics who insist that nobody wants to move any faster on Geary than they already do, and that people who ride
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
SF News T3 Line Ready To Roll And sadly, we spent a long time trying to do some sort of pun between those two bridges and Fergie's "London Bridge" but couldn't come up with anything. Even worse, we now have
SF News Getting Around Town About $6 million's going to Muni, the Karl Pilkington of transit agencies, to continue work on the 3rd Street Light Rail. That's sure to go well. We'll be getting $91,000 in bike
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day For The VTA Man, today's not the VTA's day. The San Jose light rail was shut down for about an hour and a half to clear out the carcass of a truck making an illegal left
SF News You Can't Get There From Here ... Yet Also on the agenda for the meeting: the Third Street Light Rail project is behind schedule and over budget. Suprise! Service will be start in fall of 2006 at the earliest -- what
SF News Give Trees A Chance In a location where our car gets broken into and vandalized on a regular basis, we are not surprised that there are people who for some reason think it's clever, smart or even
