SF News Passive Gavin We all know how effective suggestion boxes are, right? Gavin's tacked one up in city call in digital form on his "blog," or "web log." He's asking citizens to submit lists of "peeves,
SF News Breaking News-- People Don't Pay Full Fares on Cable Cars This information was uncovered by the MTA's crack team of Muni riding Ninjas who rode the cable car forty-two times and took notes. The good news is that the Muni Ninjas didn’t'
SF News April Muni Payout Part Two: $33,275 More controversial is a case in which a blind, partially-deaf subway rider stepped off the platform, thinking he was in front of the doors, and discovered that he'd fallen between two trains. The
SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
SF News Gavin: Your Inability to Depend on Muni is a Mere "Pet Peeve" (Thanks for the tip, GavinWatch! We can't wait for your launch party tomorrow.) The always vigilant GW tipped us off to a heroic, anonymous San Franciscan who puts a question to Gavin about
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 March Muni Payout: $57,762.63 Muni is not without defense in the Food Bank fiasco: in their answer to the complaint, Muni claimed that the Food Bank knowingly placed itself at risk, so they refused to pay for
SF News Muni's Secret Meeting About Your Children: Revealed! These meetings all are part of Muni's ongoing study on how it might go about sucking less. Allow us to suggest the following: STOP HIDING INFO IN WEB-UNFRIENDLY PDFs. It's like printing up
SF News Let None Escape Muni's Grasp With your support, the physically disabled will someday ride Muni with the same freedom and comfort that the mentally disabled already enjoy.
SF News Muni's Equipment Troubles Extend Even Further Than We Thought "It has come to our attention that the restroom hygiene of some tenants is less than stellar," begins the memo, with the subject "RESTROOM MANNERS." Apparently, some folks at the MTA offices at
SF News I Wish... However. That's not to say that NextMuni's work would be done. Oh hell no. There's still a boatload of fixer-upperring to be done on that site. (The graphic design alone looks like something
SF News Another Month, Another Muni Payout The other $15,000 gets split between Tokuko ($6,000) and State Farm ($8,917.83). Tokuko's claim relates to some personal injury and property damage done by a bus in 2005, and
SF News The Meters Jam The Chron says that while the meter's don't take in enough money, tickets do. Or at least in relation to other cites. Here comes the numbers: last year people plunked in about $29.
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 Free Parking According to Budget Analyst Harvey Rose San Francisco's 23,000 meters or so average between $2.61 and $5.59 a day. That's about three hours of usage on the meters. Over the
SF News Travelling Riverside Blues On Friday, a judge ruled against the union but said that the city could redact or black out personal information as they see fit. If this was the Bush administration, that would mean
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 parking passes
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 Now We No Longer Have Our Chocolate Bus Yesterday, the order came down that the strips that gave out the smell were to be taken down. That meant those things were up for a total of one day as they just
SF News And Now For Some Bikes Have you been following the drama with the city's bike plan? It's BANANAS, and there's no end in sight. Basically: the city wants to paint bike lanes and allow bikes on trains and
SF News This Week In Your Commute News First we turn to the water where an expected eight ferry terminals are to be built in the coming years to service all of those commuters who've moved far, far away from San
SF News BRT Not BART The plan, called BRT (couldn't they have chosen something slightly different from another mode of pub trans in the area? All this stuff is confusing enough without having to someday contemplate a BRT
SF News Mirkarimi's MUNI Meeting Does anyone else remember those awesome signs they used to have behind the driver on the old MUNI buses -- "Information Gladly Given But Safety Requires Avoiding Unnecessary Conversation"? Well, get some information
SF News Across The -ist Network Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Three Eve Batey: While I’m asking what you’re going to do for money now, of course I also want to know – Nathaniel Ford: Increase patronage! EB: Well, yeah! NF: Increase our patronage,
