SF News All Muni Fare Gates Will Be Open and Bus and Train Rides Will Again Be Free on New Year's Eve Riding Muni will be free again this New Year's Eve, giving you one less excuse for making poor choices and another option for getting home after partying this end-of-year holiday weekend.
SF News SFPD Arrests Parolee For Shoving Elderly Woman on Muni Bus, Knocking Her Unconscious A 46-year-old SF man who was already on parole has been arrested for a September attack on an elderly woman boarding a Muni bus, wherein he knocked the 76-year-old woman unconscious.
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 BART and Muni Getting Huge State Bailout to the Tune of $661M, But It Comes With Conditions After two years of talk of fiscal cliffs and the threat of service cuts, BART and the SFMTA have been thrown a lifeline in the form of state and regional transit subsidies — and the two agencies will be taking the lion's share of the money allocated to the Bay Area.
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 Finally! Clipper Card System Will Let You Just Scan Debit and Credit Cards Directly, Starting Next Year You’ll be able to just swipe your debit or credit card to ride BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems, eliminating the need for a Clipper Card, in a major upgrade scheduled for summer 2024.
SF News Large Fight, Muni Messes Mar Outside Lands Attendees’ Sunday Night Attempts to Get Home A sizable brawl that reportedly involved two security companies (!) kept police busy near Golden Gate Park as Outside Lands let out Sunday night, while jilted Muni riders complained of being passed up by absolutely jam-packed 5-Fulton, 38-Geary, and N-Judah vessels.
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 Day Around the Bay: CA Legislature Comes Up With $1.1B Transit Bailout First Lady Jill Biden will be in SF on Tuesday; the CA Legislature has come up with $1.1B in the new budget to bail out transit agencies; and there is finally some movement on the burned-out building at 3300 Mission Street.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Hook Up Veteran 36-Year Muni Operator With Free Playoff Tickets, Custom Jersey Angel Carvajal, a Muni operator for nearly four decades, was styled out by the Warriors with free tickets and a custom jersey with his name on it at Tuesday night’s big playoff game.
SF News Sunday Night Shooting On Muni Bus Leaves One Injured, Suspect Still at Large A Muni bus shooting just before 6 p.m. Sunday night, apparently on the 49-Van Ness, left one 34-year-old man injured and hospitalized, and the suspect fled the scene and is still at large.
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 Stabbing on Muni Bus Near Union Square Allegedly Stems From Teen Fight A teenage boy was stabbed and seriously injured Monday afternoon in a fight onboard a Muni bus near Union Square, and several young suspects were detained.
SF News Seemingly Racist Muni Egg Attack Prompts SFPD, SFMTA Investigations A Thursday egg-throwing attack on the 38-Geary was caught on video, with some hate speech reportedly in the mix, and it turns out this suspect may have a checkered past of targeting Asian women in food-throwing attacks.
SF News Rejoice, Outer Richmond: The 1X-California Express Bus Returns This Month, Though With Very Limited Service The 1-California’s express bus was halted by the pandemic, but returns February 21, though will only run a few times a day during weekday commute hours.
SF News Suspect Arrested After Assaulting Muni Bus Driver With Fire Extinguisher San Francisco police on Wednesday arrested a suspect who apparently ran up to a Muni bus that was stopped at a red light, jumped into the driver's side window, and attacked the driver, spraying the driver with a fire extinguisher.
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old In Connection With Kicking Elderly Woman on Muni Bus A juvenile suspect is in custody in connection with a widely covered December 3 Muni bus assault involving an elderly victim near Japantown.
SF News Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.
SF News SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.
SF News SFPD Seeking Suspect Who Kicked Elderly Woman As He Exited Muni Bus The SFPD on Wednesday released Muni surveillance video of an incident in which a male suspect kicked an elderly woman in the stomach on his way off of a Muni bus.
Arts & Entertainment NYT Mini Crossword Erroneously Refers to BART as SF's 'Metro,' and People Flip Out It's de rigeur in these parts to get very haughty about mistakes that East Coasters make when they write about our fair city. And the NYT Crossword editors have some explaining to do.
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 Reminder: The J Church Is a Bus This Weekend Some serious landscaping and tree-clearing is taking down the power lines of the J Church this weekend, and riders of that line will be on buses, and forced to transfer up until 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
SF News Bay Area Transit Planners Fret Over ’Doomsday Scenario’ of Service Cuts Amidst Plummeting Ridership The possibility of “No weekend BART, bus lines cancelled” looms for BART, Muni, Caltrain and the ferries, according to a new report detailing these transit agencies’ plans for dealing with the “death spiral” of a looming fiscal cliff.
