SF News Muni Is Free This Weekend, Because SF Really Doesn’t Want You Driving During NBA and Chinese New Year Events The blockbuster combination of both the NBA All-Star Game and the Lunar New Year Parade in SF this weekend has SFMTA making Muni free on Saturday and Sunday to limit traffic gridlock, and the little-used Chinatown Subway and T-Third will be in the spotlight.
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Iconic 'Worm' Logo Turns 50 Muni's beloved "Worm" logo, created in 1975, remains an endearing icon of San Francisco's rolling hills and urban identity.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lawrence Livermore Lab Partners With OpenAI Muni subway experiences mid-morning technical issues and delays; S.F. man charged with hate crime and assault over Tenderloin garage incident; and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory tests OpenAI's AI models in hopes of streamlining its fusion research.
SF News Get Ready to Wait: Muni Service Cutbacks Start This Saturday, February 1 Starting Saturday, Muni is cutting back on mid-day frequency of the 24-Divisadero, 38-Geary, and 43-Masonic bus lines, plus reducing weekend capacity on the K-Ingleside and M-Ocean View. But they’re bringing back the 30X-Marina Express, if that does anything for you.
SF News Central Subway Will Be Shut Down Next Month For Water Leak Repairs People who ride the T-Third line through the Central Subway will be relegated to bus service between late February and mid-March, as SFMTA fixes the subway's water leak issues that they once had to address with plastic red beer pong cups.
SF News Man Allegedly Fires Gunshots at Muni Driver Near Oracle Park, Promptly Gets Arrested A male suspect opened fire on a Muni driver at about 6 am Monday morning near the Fourth and King Caltrain station, though the driver was not hit by the gunfire, and the suspect was pretty quickly apprehended.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Cutting Some Service on Popular Bus Lines Muni is cutting midday service on some bus lines to address budget woes; the official death toll in the LA wildfires rises to five; and Trump is trying to blame Newsom for the fires, again.
SF News SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin Blames Uber, Lyft, and Waymo for Muni’s Woes On His Way Out the Door The five-year reign of SF Municipal Transit Authority director Jeffrey Tumlin ends today, and in an exit interview, he points the finger at rideshares and robotaxis for Muni’s $300 million deficit.
SF News Muni Will Be Free on NYE (Don't Tag Your Clipper Card) Once again, in order to encourage people to use public transit and not drive on New Year's Eve, SF Muni buses and trains will be free to ride on the evening of December 31.
SF News SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin is Resigning at the End of the Year The five-year reign of SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin will come to an end on December 31, and while he steered Muni through the pandemic and saw some big projects completed, he was a lightning rod for criticism over bike lanes and car-free streets.
SF News Could Muni Eliminate the Cable Cars? That’s on the Table, as the Agency Faces a Possible $320 Million Deficit Dark days loom for Muni after the failure of Prop L, an incoming Trump presidency, and a deficit as high as $322 million, so there’s talk of eliminating the cable cars, or axing some lesser-used bus lines outright.
Arts & Entertainment Muni Launches Online Store Full of Muni-Branded T-Shirts, Hats, Hoodies, Mugs, and More Well, that’s one way to address a $214 million deficit. Muni just launched an online store, in time for the holidays, where you can buy Muni swag like t-shirts, hoodies, hats, socks, and even baby onesies.
SF Politics That Prop L Rideshare Tax to Fund Muni Looks Unlikely to Pass, Because Another Measure Cancels It Out The tax on rideshares that was supposed to help dig Muni out of its deficit is cruising to a big win, but will probably never take effect, because it conflicts with the Prop M business tax measure which is winning by even more.
SF News Car Crashes Into 48 Muni Bus In Noe Valley Causing Multiple-Vehicle Collision, Muni Driver Hospitalized There was a multiple-vehicle crash just before noon Monday in Noe Valley, as one car hit a 48-Quintara/24th Street Muni bus and several other cars, and the Muni driver has been hospitalized.
SF Politics SF’s Prop L Hopes to Save Muni With a Tax on Uber, Lyft, and Waymo Rides With the SFMTA looking at a $214 million deficit and potential service cuts, a ragtag band of riders came up with Prop L, which would tax Lyft, Uber, and Waymo rides to effectively bail out Muni.
SF News Three-Day Work Weeks Are Hammering BART Financially, But Muni Just Had Its Highest-Ridership Month In Four Years The BART system continues its ridership dregs due to remote work and persistent three-day work weeks, and it may come begging for a tax increase, but Muni just scored its highest monthly ridership numbers since before the pandemic.
Business & Tech Tech Bros Try to Help Waymo Entangled With Muni Bus, Leave Behind Stalled Waymo A new viral video shows a stalled Waymo getting entangled with a Muni bus this weekend, and when a gaggle of tech bros coming from an industry party try to help, they seem to just make things worse.
SF News Muni Experiences Major Meltdown With Downed Overhead Line In Tunnel Near Civic Center It's not clear how many hours we may be looking at here, but Muni was melting down Tuesday morning, with no light-rail trains able to pass through the Market Street subway tunnel in the downtown direction.
SF News Man Rushed to Hospital After His Leg Gets Trapped Under a Muni Bus A man somehow ended up with his leg trapped under a Muni bus at Geary and Masonic over the weekend, and was rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Twin Peaks Tunnel About to Shut Down Again for Eight Days, Starting Thursday Heads up, those who ride Muni’s K, L, M, and S lines — the West Portal and Forest Hill stations, and all of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, will be closed for eight whole days, effective Thursday morning.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get In and Out of Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands For those just attending Outside Lands this year for the first time, and those who haven't been to the festival for a few years, we give you this primer on your transportation options to get in and out of Golden Gate Park without too much fuss.
SF News Muni to Update Train Control System From Floppy-Disk Era... Over the Next Ten Years Things don't happen fast when it comes to San Francisco's public transit systems. And in the case of Muni, that means a train-control apparatus that was installed in 1998 — and sounds like it might have been almost outdated even then — is finally going to get an update. But it will take a decade.
SF News Muni Somehow Scores Its Highest Rider Satisfaction Rate In 23 Years According to a new Muni survey, 72% of riders rated the city’s public transit service as “good” or “excellent,” though that comes with the catch that the more frequently people ride Muni, the less satisfied they are with it.
SF News Twin Peaks Tunnel Closes This Weekend for Repairs, Muni Trains Stopping at Castro The Twin Peaks Tunnel, which connects Castro Station to West Portal on the other side, will be closed throughout this weekend for repairs, and will be closed again in August.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Strike Averted, Operators Agree to New Contract A Visitacion Valley park is being renamed for an 89-year-old woman who was killed there; former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf has some skeletons in her political closet coming back to haunt her; and the potential Muni strike has been averted as the union just approved a new contract for operators.