Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Ride A Muni Bus It's time again for something we haven't done in a couple years here at SFist, and that's Etiquette Week in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in
SF News [Update] Parking Over Pedestrians: Business Balks At L-Taraval Safety Plan Plans to improve pedestrian safety on an injury-prone stretch of San Francisco streets were threatened this week, as Supervisor Katy Tang met with business interests claiming that the loss of a few parking
SF News Muni Will FINALLY Allow Two Trains In A Station At Once, Soon After years of trying and failing to make this work, Muni is finally (maybe) getting close to allowing "double stopping" or "double berthing" in downtown Muni stations, thereby alleviating some computer-created congestion in
SF News Muni Is Getting A New Fleet Of Train Cars, Starting This Year Starting this year, Muni is set to begin receiving the first of its 260 new rail cars. Some of the trains, which the Chronicle reports are made by German company Siemens and are
SF News Map: Hundreds Of Violations Committed By Tech Shuttles Per Year It's hard out there for a tech bus. Or so it would seem, with an exhaustive report from NBC Bay Area revealing that the top companies responsible for shuttling workers to and from
SF News Mission Street Businesses Say Transit-Only Lanes Are Putting Them In The Red While Mission Street's new, bright red transit only lanes, reserved for buses and taxis, have so far confused and angered drivers between 11th and Randall, they've got a new enemy in some local
SF News Everything Rainbow: Castro Muni Escalators Getting Rainbow Lights Now In addition to rainbow crosswalks and a giant rainbow flag, the Castro will be getting one more reminder that it is the gay neighborhood: rainbow lighting up and down its Muni station escalators.
SF News N-Judah Meltdown Snarls Morning Commute Thankfully, rush-hour meltdowns on Muni aren't quite as frequent as they were in recent years, but they're not yet a thing of the past. This morning saw an "overhead wire issue" near the
SF News Mission Street Changes Have Drivers Seeing Red, Could Be Revisited Before They're Finished As predicted, the freshly painted red transit-only lanes up and down Mission Street, which are being implemented along with other changes in a $3.8 million project, have resulted in confusion and consternation
SF News Muni Rider Beats Up Mother Of Kid Who Bumped Him A easily-infuriated Muni rider was arrested Wednesday, after punching a fellow passenger in the head when her child bumped into him. It all went down at 8:20 a.m., near 15th and
SF News Muni Adds Service On Multiple Lines Starting This Month Listen up everyone who complains about Muni: Starting April 23, the SFMTA will begin rolling out a huge set of changes to the service that we all love to hate (yet depend upon
SF News Supervisors At Odds Over Penalizing Muni Riders Paying Cash A proposed SFMTA budget that would penalize people who use cash to purchase Muni tickets with a 25-cent surcharge has run into trouble, with two supervisors coming out in opposition, and one specifically
SF News Muni Proposes Tiered Pricing System That Penalizes Cash With 25-Cent Surcharge Yesterday evening the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency adopted a new budget that, if approved by the Board of Supervisors, will penalize commuters who purchase tickets the old fashioned way with good ol'
SF News Muni's Last Two Big Orange LRV Cars Could Be Yours, For Free! You could own Muni's two remaining Boeing-Vertol light rail vehicles, aka the "big orange trains," for absolutely no charge, a spokesperson says. All you need is a way to haul them off SFMTA
SF News 'Traumatic Brain Injury' For Pedestrian Struck By Muni In Mission Bay A pedestrian was rushed to the hospital with head trauma, after he was struck by a San Francisco Municipal Transportation light rail vehicle in Mission Bay Wednesday evening. According to San Francisco Police
SF News Brave Vigilante Thwarts Cell Phone Theft On Muni A brave bystander thwarted an all-too-common crime yesterday, after a thief picked the wrong day to steal a cell phone. According to the San Francisco Police Department, at 8:58 Wednesday morning a
SF News Four Injured When Cable Car And Recology Truck Collide Another wet foggy morning on Mason St. I look out my window & what do I see? The Little #CableCar That Could(n't). pic.twitter.com/n0SjtXZwhr— Ivy Something (@ivysomething) March 9, 2016
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 Muni Stations Reportedly Defaced With Burning Pride Flag Photos Castro-area Muni riders were hit with a disturbing message Monday morning, when they were confronted with fliers depicting a burning Pride flag as they passed through two area stations. According to SFist tipster
SF News New Muni Buses Can't Handle San Francisco's Hills On a beautiful Earth Day last year, SFMTA officials excitedly unveiled the first of sixty brand new electric trolley buses purchased by the city of San Francisco. In conjunction with 61 new biodiesel-electric
SF News Day Around The Bay: Woman Finds Rare Pearl In Her Dinner A Washington State woman found a rare, gem-quality Quahog purple pearl, valued at $600, in her Italian seafood dinner at Montalcino Ristorante Italiano in Issaquah, WA. [NY Post] Muni wants a new training
SF News Day Around The Bay: Your Muni Ticket Could Be Getting More Expensive Muni is currently mulling some possible changes, including the price of a bus ticket — fares may go up to $2.50 in 2018. Also, while you probably know it is illegal to not
SF News Hidden Change: Someone Is Placing Envelopes With Bus, Meter Fare Around City Awesome! Can't help but wonder if someone is watching others discover these and smiling @abc7newsBayArea pic.twitter.com/DK7FcyJ4He— Melanie Woodrow (@MelanieWoodrow) February 13, 2016 Someone (or, perhaps many someones) has taken to
SF News Mission Street Set For Massive Transit Changes, Expect Much Confusion With the stated goal of reducing commute times and increasing safety, city officials began work this past Saturday on a set of transit changes that will profoundly affect that way you navigate Mission
SF News Muni Forced To Reroute Buses After Crash Lands Truck On Top Of Another Car #BREAKING SFMuni ax at Ocean Ave and Phelan Ave. pic.twitter.com/xzbibLbe9T— KTVU (@KTVU) February 12, 2016 Muni is clearly having a bad day. Following on the heels of a morning derailment
