SF News A New Muni Mobile App Launched Today, and They’re Killing Off the Old App, So Use Up Your Old Tickets Muni’s new trip planner and digital ticketing app MuniMobile is now up, running, and available for download, and the old app’s being discontinued on January 15, so it’s time to use up any fares you bought on the old one.
SF News Reminder: Muni Is Shutting Down the Twin Peaks Tunnel at Nighttime for a Week, Starting Thursday Riders of the K-Ingleside and M-Ocean View be aware, Muni is closing the Twin Peaks Tunnel every night for a week starting Thursday, and the Forest Hill and West Portal stations will close at 9 p.m. September 14-21.
SF News The 28R-19th Avenue Muni Line Returns From Its Pandemic Slumber On August 21 Muni riders who have business along 19th Avenue have a speedy old friend coming back, as the long-suspended 28R-19th Avenue line will be reinstated for service two weeks from Monday.
SF News Both the 49-Van Ness and 22-Fillmore Have Seen Their Ridership Surge Beyond Pre-Pandemic Levels No “fiscal cliff” for these two Muni bus lines, as both the 22-Fillmore and 49-Van Ness are rocking ridership levels even higher than before the pandemic. The trouble is that it may be because like many San Franciscans, these lines don’t go downtown.
SF News Central Subway Ridership Already Declining, Barely Two Months After Fully Opening We have two months of ridership data on the new Central Subway, and the second month saw a notable decline in riders — and stunningly, only about 300 people are using the Yerba Buena/Moscone Station on average each day.
SF News Muni’s New Battery Electric Buses Are Being Spotted in the Wild Look ma, no wires! Yet another new fleet of Muni buses has arrived, so keep your eyes peeled, because you may notice the new battery electric buses as they continue in their evaluation and testing phase.
SF News Hijacked Muni Bus Hits 10 Cars in Mission District, Suspect Now in Custody Friday night around 8 p.m., a suspect allegedly assaulted a Muni driver operating a bus at Cortland and Mission streets, before stealing the vehicle and traveling up to 19th and Guerrero streets — striking at least ten cars on their way.
SF News The Central Subway Has a (Kind Of, Sort Of) Opening Date! It’s Saturday, November 19 The November 19 opening date is not the real grand opening of the long-awaited Central Subway, but it’s the beginning of weekend-only service that will initially be free, and real everyday service is vaguely scheduled to begin “by January 2023.”
SF News Electrical Fire Investigation Into Central Subway Could Further Delay Its Opening A June electrical fire inside the long-delayed Central Subway system was a lot more dangerous than we’d realized at the time, and its aftermath may push the Central Subway’s opening out to 2023 — a full five years past its original opening date.
SF News Photos: SFMTA Celebrates First In-Person Muni Heritage Day in Two Years With Free Rides on Vintage Vehicles This past weekend, the SFMTA honored Muni Heritage Day by offering free rides on some of the city's historically significant (and rarely ridden) buses and trolleys to the delight of droves of public transit nerds — a first since the pandemic began in March of 2020.
SF News Four Injured After Two-Car Crash Involving Muni Bus in Mission District Just after 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, two cars collided with a Muni bus at 24th and Guerrero streets; four people were injured, and all were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Clang! Clang! Clang!: SF's Cable Cars Return to Service Today With Free Rides San Francisco's iconic cable cars return to limited service Monday for the first time in nearly 17 months, after a few weeks in which they were in testing and retraining mode.
SF News BART Expected to Have Free WiFi at All Stations by 2024 Earlier this year, SFMTA installed wireless routers and cellular antennas inside the Muni Metro tunnels. Now, we can also expect all 50 BART stations to have free (and readily accessible) WiFi hotspots in as little as three years.
SF News SFMTA Installs Public Wi-Fi In Subway Tunnel, Completes Track Improvements Ahead of Metro Reopening In addition to new LED signs and public art now installed at SFMTA’s Church and West Portal stations, another notable update will help modernize those underground terminals: reliable access to the internet.
SF News Mayor Breed Announces Free Roundtrip Muni Rides To COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments In a news release from the Office of the Mayor Friday, Breed announced the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will offer free roundtrip transportation for people traveling to and from their COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting this coming Tuesday.
SF News SF Muni Operator Dies After Falling 'Severely Ill' While Driving, Crashes into Parked Cars on Noe Street The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced this afternoon that an operator has died following a Saturday morning crash on Noe Street; the driver had just recently celebrated his nineteenth-anniversary working for SFMTA earlier in August.
SF News SF Suspends All Power and Water Shutoffs, Dismisses Late Fees on Overdue Payments To shield San Franciscans from having their lights and water turned off during these worrisome times, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) won’t cut-off power and water services due to non-payment. Also, both SFPUC and SF Muni will waive late fees on overdue payments.
SF News A Car-Free Market Street Will Happen By The End Of The Month In a sweeping attempt to curb pedestrian injuries and deaths on Market Street, SFMTA announced that private vehicles won’t be allowed on the road starting January 29th.
SF News Here's How To Safely Get Around The Bay Area on New Year's Eve From free Muni and Caltrain rides to discounted cabs, here's how to traverse our slice of Northern California during the last New Year's Eve of this decade.
SF News Muni's $400M Potrero Yard Refresh To Include 500 Housing Units, Half Will Be 'Affordable' In an odd two-birds-with-one-stone throw, Muni has plans to build its first-ever housing development at Potrero Yard, helping both revitalize the outmoded concrete court and (hopefully) introduce over 250 affordable housing units in the process.
SF News [Update] One Of Leap's Private Buses Now For Sale On eBay And Craigslist According to the latest and perhaps last tweet from Leap Transit, the private bus startup is still "offline to deal with a regulatory issue." To get technical, Leap received a "Cease and Desist"
SF News Leap's Private Buses Continue To Hurdle Regulations Leap drives fast and breaks things, so to speak, with the Chronicle reporting that the private bus company has outmaneuvered regulation at every turn and currently occupies a "gray area" in which it
SF News Is 16 Hours Of Training Enough For Muni's Gun-Wielding Security Guards? A vote to approve a controversial agreement to employ handgun-equipped private security guards at Muni yards was postponed Tuesday over concerns that the guards would not receive a sufficient amount of firearms training.
