SF News Muni Takes Another Stab at the Transit Effectiveness Plan Way back in the heady days of 2006, when Muni actually wanted to know what riders thought about things like the frequency of buses during rush hour, the SFMTA launched the Transit Effectiveness
SF News Check to See How Effed Muni Is Right Now, One Route at a Time Imagine our delight when we found that a new site has launched today tracking the various delays and general mess that is Muni, at a glance, with a nicer interface than NextBus (because,
SF News N-Judah Rear Ends Sunset Driver This morning around 7:30 am, an N-Judah train apparently rear-ended a car out in the Sunset near 24th Ave and Judah St. According to the Examiner, shuttles ran for about an hour
SF News Video: Muni Metro Train Runs With Door Open ABC7 broadcast this rather shocking video that was posted on YouTube of an outbound L train being driven with the door wide open at the Van Ness station for almost a full minute
SF News Guard Your Purses and Wallets: Muni Pass Prices Increase Again in July This just in from the SFMTA by way of the ever-vigilante Muni watchdogs at Muni Diaries: Adult "A" Fast Pass prices will go up to $72 per month starting July 1. Likewise, the
SF News Supes Grill SFMTA on Crappy J-Church, 14-Mission Service, NextBus Inaccuracies Part of yesterday's Neighborhood Services Committee meeting included supervisors Wiener and Avalos' joint hearing on J-Church and 14-Mission service. During the hearing, the two supervisors called on SFMTA Transit Director John Haley to
SF News Traffic Light on Market Street Falls Down, Goes Boom Things are kind of falling apart a bit today, what with this bomb scare/actual bomb situation at the (old) Federal Building, and now, down street at Market and Jones we have a
SF News Muni Chief Nat Ford's Vacation Schedule Exposed On the Bay Citizen this weekend, the New York Times farm team dug up a list of the Muni Chief's absences in 2010, and for one of the city's highest paid public officials
SF News Muni Metro Train Collides With Semi, Six People Injured At least six people were injured when a Muni KT-line train collided with a flat-bed semi truck this morning at 10:30 a.m. in Dogpatch, at the intersection of 23rd and 3rd.
SF News Nat Ford Watch: DC Job Seems Unlikely, SFMTA Schedules Some Time for a Heart-to-Heart As we mentioned yesterday, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's decision to postpone hiring a new Executive Director has exposed our Muni Chief's desire to get the eff out of San Francisco and probably
SF News Clipper Cards Stealing Money Right Out of Your Pockets The Examiner's Will Reisman investigates some excessive charges handed to Clipper Card users last month when they tried to reload their one-card-to-rule-them-all bus passes. One man who tried to deposit $100 on his
SF News Common San Francisco Complaints Ranked by Chamber of Commerce San Franciscans love to complain about things, we know this. The Chamber of Commerce probably knows this too (unless they are completely out of touch), so in order to quantify exactly which complaints
SF News Another Muni Meltdown: Day 3 On the heels of two Muni messes, SFist's Leanne Maxwell tell us about another meltdown currently in progress. A broken-down inbound train in the tunnel between Duboce and Van Ness is causing delays
SF News Comment of the Day: Muni Doesn't Care About Pretending to Care We're breaking out our Comment of the Day again. Sharpen your wits and writing prowess with the hopes that one day you might make it in Comment of the Day. Fame and envy
SF News Metro Muni Delay Affecting All Lines KRON 4 Morning News reports that Muni is having major delays throughout the city on all metro lines. What's the cause of the problem? Not sure yet. However, commuters are reporting delays of
SF News Meanwhile, in Washington: Airport Authority Not Sure They Want Nat Ford Either Over in DC, it seems that the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is split on whether or not they want Nat Ford. In an informal poll that doesn't really mean anything,
SF News Muni Operators Found to Be Not Operating Muni, On Occasion The California Public Utilities Commission has released hundreds of pages of reports documenting the past three years of Muni inspections, confirming what many of us already knew - our light rail system is
SF News Rumors Say Muni Chief is Poised to Make Washingtonians Late to the Airport Back in September, rumors went around that Nat Ford had a pretty good chance of landing a top position with the the DC Metro - of course, that didn't amount to anything. Nat
SF News A Very Broke Muni Mulls Potential Taxes and Fees The Chronicle peered in to Muni's financial future this morning and figured out that the beleaguered transit agency needs to "slash $30 million in spending and generate $50 million in new revenue" every
SF News Federal Budget Proposal Would Help Build Central Subway, BART to San Jose Obama's proposed budget has some numbers in it that local transit-o-philes will either love or lambast, depending on how quickly they want to get from Chinatown to the Ballpark and how they feel
SF News This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 8 We return again for an installment of this ofttimes confusing feature, in which we ask those ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner C.W.
misc Local Man, Frustrated with 30-Stockton, Decides to Walk We've heard plenty of complaints about what a harrowing experience the downhill commute from Russian Hill and Nob Hill can be along the city's legendary 30-Stockton line. Recently, however, one local man (and
misc Lady Accuses Muni Passenger Of Being Al Gore, Staring At Her Private Parts (VIDEO) Freshly relocated from Dallas to San Francisco, a friend of a friend of SFist captured video yesterday that showcases an unhinged lady on Muni, rambling about this and that. "A crazy tweaker boarded
SF News Castro Train Derailment Results In Widespread Muni Delays Speaking of Muni horrors, a train derailment outside the Castro Station stopped all outbound service this morning and slowed inbound service. This incident happened around 7:35 a.m. According to KTVU, "Bus
