SF News Rec & Parks Commission Approves Controversial Union Square Subway Station As progress on the Central Subway moves forward underneath Stockton Street, up a couple blocks in Union Square the new line's most visible station looks to be heading for its inevitable day in
SF News One Woman's Harrowing Account Of Sexual Assault On Muni Earlier this week, one local woman shared her harrowing story of the sort of inexcusable behavior that is unfortunately still all too common in every woman's day-to-day life. And it happened on a
SF News Thanks For Not Being Cheapskates While Enjoying Back Door Boarding, Everybody With only one month of data gathered on the effects Muni's earth-shattering back-door boarding policy, the transit agency has already found another promising, but possibly meaningless, statistic to tout: the number of fare
SF News That Muni/BART Entrance at the Apple Store Will Be Closed for Six Years The Stockton and Ellis entrance/exit from BART and Muni, with the escalator that dumped you off right by the door of the Apple Store, is closing today due to the construction of
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1980s Bus Driver Training Film Will Prepare You For Any Bay Area Transit Situation If there's anything easier to make fun of than the 1980s in general, it is definitely San Francisco's local transit system. Which is why this training video for Bay Area bus drivers, apparently
SF News Muni, Once Again, Deemed an Insult to Us All A civil grand jury has found that Muni's practice of "switchbacks," in which a fully functioning bus is taken out of service and turned around in order to avoid "bunching" at the end
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Muni's Twitterbus Is "Nothing To Tweet About" Ridership on Muni's Twitterbus is "nothing to tweet about." It's also unnecessarily competing with private shuttles to the new dotcom hub on Market Street. [Chron] Local porn stars will do a live webcam
SF News Good Work Figuring Out Back Door Boarding, Everybody New updates reveal just how much time Muni riders are getting back thanks to the revolutionary back door boarding process SFMTA implemented in July. While anecdotal reports suggested things were going really smooth,
SF News Meanwhile, In Between A Muni Bus And A Streetcar... Twitter user @bekaroni84 (via Dan McMenamin) snapped this shot of a serious car accident that happened this afternoon near Market and First between a Muni bus and a streetcar. According to SF Appeal,
SF News Transportation Commission Shoots Down Free Youth Muni Plan The plan to offer free Muni service to low-income kids was apparently killed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Wednesday, where the Bay Area-wide agency shot down a motion to fund several programs to
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
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Punk Rock Cat Boards Train, Doesn't Care What You Or Society Think Eugenia at Muni Diaries brightens our day year with this photo of an unapologetic punk rock cat sitting atop its equally rad owner boarding a Muni train. "[T]he cat that looks absolutely
SF News Protesters Try To Shut Down Muni Over Death Of Child Rapist [Updated] [UPDATE: Although Muni bus lines 49 and 47 were briefly blocked at Van Ness and Hayes, and the Octavia ramp to 101 was also blocked, the protest has "dwindled."] A Muni protest, one
SF News Protesters Could Shut Down Muni Service On Monday Hey, you know what might be a great day in which to ride one's bike to work? Monday. Because several groups will try to disrupt Muni service that day. According to SF Examiner,
SF News 5-Fulton Bus Runs Over Man's Arm Over in the Outer Richmond on Thursday afternoon, an unidentified man and a 5-Fulton bus met under grisly circumstances. The collision, reported at 2:57 p.m., happened near the intersection of Cabrillo
SF News Muni Is Not Moving Again Thanks to an overhead wire problem west of Castro Station earlier this morning, Muni Metro service on inbound L, K and M-lines has been halted since just before 11 a.m. While it's
SF News Muni Updates: Back Door Boarding Going Really Smoothly, Everyone Enjoys It Have you guys tried back door boarding yet? As the Chronicle discovers today, this hot new craze (that everyone has been doing forever) is quite literally sweeping local public transit riders off their
Arts & Entertainment Muni Etiquette Update: How To Use Back Door Boarding For Everyone's Enjoyment On Sunday, Muni will finally lift their draconian ban on back door boarding. Based solely on the number of media outlets that have mentioned the new policy, this is the biggest development on
SF News SFMTA Hopes We Can All 'Move Forward Together' With New Logo The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, overseers of the city's various methods of surface transportation, unveiled a new logo yesterday in hopes that we could all move on and forget the first 100
SF News Two Arrested For Setting Castro Muni Station Fires Oh, that's not nice. Two people were pinched last night after setting two presumably small fires in the Castro Muni station. "Police were called to the station at around 4 a.m. today,
SF News Fourth Street To Turn Hellish As Central Subway Excavation Begins Seeing as how an underground line from, say, downtown to the Outer Richmond would make too much sense, enter the Central Subway, the city's $1.6 billion project that will run the T-Third
SF News N-Judah and J-Church Lines Reopen; N-Judah Promptly Breaks Down [Updated] Glory be. After a ten-day shutdown that made the Sunset sad, the N-Judah and J-Church lines reopened for business this morning. Now the new section of track at the always sluggish intersection of
SF News Photo: Tree Falls In The Haight; Crushes Car, Muni Lines [Updated] Yikes: a big tree fell down on Haight Street between Scott and Pierce early Monday evening, resulting in downed power and Muni lines. "Muni has been rerouted in the area, there may be
