SF News What You Need to Know About Bay Area Public Transit Changes for New Year’s Eve Muni and AC Transit are offering free rides, while BART is extending its operating hours.
SF News Muni Ridership Hits 67% of Pre-Pandemic Levels on Weekends, 54% on Weekdays Much as BART has seen a return of riders a bit moreso on weekends than during commuting hours on weekdays, the SFMTA is reporting a similar pattern on Muni buses and trains — though one bus line is now at 133% of its pre-pandemic riders.
SF News Saturday Links: Sliding Glass Doors May Make Newer Muni Buses More Spacious Sliding glass doors could be coming to newer Muni buses, a San Jose police sergeant drove right into a power pole, meet the Bay Area locals fighting for Hong Kong's future, and more Saturday headlines.
SF News Perma-Locked Muni Seats Are Free To Sit In At Last For more than two years, some seats on Muni buses have been perpetually in the up position, locked and unusable. The move was made to limit liability after the company that builds Muni
SF News SFMTA Director: New Buses Work Just Fine On Hills SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin wants everyone to calm down. Contrary to a report last week in the Examiner, Reiskin says the new $1.1 million-a-pop 60-foot electric trolley buses purchased by
SF News Many Hoodlums Jumping Out of Muni Bus Back Doors Lately Apparently there's been a rash of bus-jumping and bus "surfing" lately as ne'er-do-well passengers have figured out how to kick open rear bus doors, in particular on the 14-L in the Mission. The
SF News SFMTA Gets Federal Grant for 18 New Buses The SFMTA just got a $21 million federal grant, most of which they'll be putting toward the purchase of eighteen 40-foot biodiesel-electric hybrid buses to replace a fleet of 20-year-old buses that are
SF News Mother Of Three Assaults, Robs Another Woman On Muni An enraged mother aboard a crowded Muni bus (we believe it was the 12-Folsom) on Thursday evening clobbered another woman in the head screaming "I need my space," then stole the woman's bag
SF News Muni Bus Strikes Yellow Cab In SoMa San Francisco's most loved/hated forms of public transportation literally collided this morning when an 8X-Bayshore Express sideswiped a Yellow Cab, sending it spinning in to a fire hydrant near the Hall of
SF News Wrongfully Accused iPhone Thief Exonerated A man accused of stealing a woman's iPhone in one of those regrettably common Muni bus snatch-and-dash thefts was finally let off the hook by a jury in San Francisco last week. The
SF News Muni Tries to Get A Tiny Bit Faster on J, N, and F Lines The interminable source of rage and frustration known as the SFMTA is taking steps this week to "improve efficiencies within the Muni system," and they're starting with several of the busiest rail lines.
SF News Brazen Thief Arrested After Bragging About Stolen iPhone on Muni A thief at Stonestown Galleria made off with a woman's iPhone after nabbing it right out of her hands while she shopped Wednesday evening. But the thief didn't get too far with it.
SF News Muni to Spy on Drivers to Curtail Texting, Cell Phone Use The California Public Utilities Commission has ordered Muni to install video cameras in the cabs of Muni metro trains to surveil operators and discourage cell phone use while operating trains. We all know
SF News Video: Muni Fight Ends In Macing, Exposed Buttocks Today in combative Muni riders, the Appeal brings to our attention a fight on the 8X Bayshore Express bus captured by local reporter/ad hoc videographer Dan McMenamin of Bay City News. McMenamin
Arts & Entertainment Another Muni Bus For Sale On eBay It's been awhile since a vintage public transit ride has popped up for sale on the Internet, but with Burning Man over and the Holiday Season just around the corner, we suppose now
SF News Muni To OK Back-Door Bus Boarding Despite the fact that every ne'er-do-well and elderly lady with a pink plastic shopping bag already does this, back-door boarding on Muni busses is still illegal, and that one Muni driver in twenty
