SF News As Bus Rapid Transit Construction Begins, Prepare For Van Ness To Become A Daily Nightmare Construction kicks off this month on the long-awaited, much-debated Van Ness BRT (bus rapid transit) project, in which the heavily trafficked boulevard is going to lose the two center lanes of traffic to
Arts & Entertainment 16 Things San Franciscans Are Nostalgic For In 2016 As we wrap up San Francisco Appreciation Week, it's time to get sentimental. If you've only been here a short time, most of what's listed below will make little sense to you. But
Arts & Entertainment Video: Inside SF's Cable Car Carpentry Shop Since it's San Francisco Appreciation Week, how about a look inside the cable car carpentry and repair shop that you may not have known existed here in the city. As the SFMTA's blog
SF News Ride Historic Trolley Buses On Long Lost Lines During This Weekend's Muni Heritage Celebration History buffs and lovers of all things San Francisco have a chance this weekend to get a taste of ye olden times by riding retired Muni electric trolley buses along routes that have
SF News A Brief History Of How San Francisco Ended Up With Electric Trolly Buses Long before the environmental movement took off or anyone understood a thing about carbon emissions, a full 81 years ago, SF got its first emission-free electric trolly bus powered by overhead wires. As
SF News Underground Muni Riders To Finally Be Blessed With Cell Phone Service As long as there have been cell phones, riders of Muni's light rail system have been afflicted with the scourge of no bars (now dots, I guess) any time the vehicles plunged beneath
SF News One Injured In Muni Bus Bottle Bashing A Muni bus rider was left with wounds to the face Tuesday, when a mugging team assaulted him and stole his cell phone. It was a brazen mid-morning attack, police say, at 10:
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
SF News Due To Faulty Counters, Muni Ridership Numbers Have Been Wrong For At Least Two Years According to automatic passenger counters, between fiscal years 2014 and 2015 ridership declined on Muni motor coaches by by 3.4 percent and on trolley coaches by 7.3 percent. Wait, what? Muni
SF News Check Out The New Muni Trains That Will Begin Showing Up Next Year San Francisco is set to replace all of its Muni train cars by the far-off year of 2028, but the first of the shiny new Siemens light-rail vehicles will begin entering service as
SF News Allegedly Assaulted Muni Driver Prompts Protest Over Muni Response, New Ad Campaign The story of the female Muni bus driver who claimed she was assaulted last weekend by a male driver in a road-rage incident in SoMa has grown more complicated, and the SFMTA's response
SF News Design Your Dream SF Subway System With New SFMTA Tool San Francisco public transit riders can be forgiven for giving in to the occasional fantasy. Hopeful, even wistful maps of what local transportation might have been or might yet be are widely made
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Has Muni Behavior Gotten Better, Or Worse? Dear Rain, Has behavior on Muni (people not moving to the back, criminals, backpack wear) changed over the years? Some people claim that it's gotten worse with the most recent flood of new
SF News Supervisor Scott Wiener Calls Out SFMTA, SFPD For Ignoring Double-Parkers "Are Tickets for Double Parking A Real Thing?" we asked back in 2013, with nearly 80 percent of the respondents to our survey answering "no." And it appears that San Francisco Supervisor/District
SF News Muni Driver Allegedly Beaten By Angry Motorist Driving for Muni can be a stressful gig. With all the rider beatings, collisions, and allegations of discrimination, the brown-uniform-sporting employees have a lot to deal with even before it comes to matters
SF News Video: Disgruntled Muni Patron Claims Drivers Won't Stop For People Of Color A Muni patron who allegedly threatened to stab a streetcar operator after multiple buses passed him was detained by police on Market Street, after they learned that the rider had an outstanding warrant
SF News SFMTA Proposes Revoking Some Mission Street Safety Improvements Following Merchant Complaints The months-long effort from a vocal contingent of merchants and Supervisor David Campos to undo the recent safety and Muni-focused Mission Street changes has borne fruit, as SFMTA officials yesterday announced that they
SF News Your Muni Fast Pass Will Cost More Next Month If you're someone who uses a monthly pass to ride Muni, you'll be digging just a little deeper to pay for it next month. Not a lot deeper, but deeper, nonetheless. The increase,
Arts & Entertainment The 8 Coolest BART And Muni Stations For this week's local listicle, we turn to public transit, and specifically to our favorite Muni and BART stops, most of which are underground. To be clear, these are not necessarily the absolute
Arts & Entertainment Cool Interactive Map Shows 'Where The Streetcars Used To Go' Designer and coder Chris Arvin put in some major hours in the SFMTA archive to create a fun new interactive map about the many, many streetcar lines that used to fan out all
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
Arts & Entertainment Where To Catch All The Most Muni-Accessible Pokémon Spotted a Pokémon waiting for a Muni Bus this morning in San Francisco. Man this Pokémon Go thing is out of control. pic.twitter.com/vU2e98XdDH— Yiying Lu (@YiyingLu) July 12, 2016 For
SF News Aggro Muni Rider Beats Elderly Woman Over Bag Collision A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized Sunday, after a fellow bus rider punched her in the face after their bags made contact. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the altercation went down on
SF News Fun Fact: The Muni Metro Runs Through The Hull Of A Sunken Ship Directly underneath the bocce ball courts on the southern end of Justin Herman Plaza, at the foot of Market Street, there lay the remains of a large, three-masted ship called the Rome that
SF News Muni Bus Driver Strikes 10-Year-Old Boy On Market Street A 10-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Sunday afternoon, after he allegedly ran in front of a Muni bus and was struck. The collision occurred at 5:01 yesterday afternoon, on Market
