SF News Terrifying Muni Tip Of The Day: Sewing Needles On Seats SFist commenter hillarys_quivering_lip tells us about a warning that went out to passengers on a the 12-Folsom Muni line today. Behold: "Listen up, folks: look before you sit down...someone's been
SF News Video: Man Smoking Crack On The N Judah The folks at Uptown Almanac bring our attention to a video of a gentlemen taking candid pulls from his crack (presumably it's crack, since marijuana emits a stench that, by comparison, lingers in
SF News Van Ness / O'Farrell Muni Accident Causes Major Delays KRON 4 Morning News reports that north bound traffic on Van Ness is blocked this morning after a Muni bus smashed into a pole near O'Farrell. Police are diverting traffic onto Ellis. Cars
SF News Agitated Muni Riders Hurl Rocks, Insults at Buses Down in the city's China Basin arrondissement on Thursday afternoon, SF Weekly employees Muni passengers reached the boiling point after being left "stranded for hours." Yikes. Stones and curse words, it seems, were
SF News Woman Struck By K-Ingleside Muni Train On Thursday afternoon, "an Asian woman in her 60s" is in critical condition after bring hit by a K-Ingleside train at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Westgate Drive. The train was heading
SF News Muni Employees To Start Actually Paying For Parking On the heels of the rest of those new parking enforcement guidelines comes news that Muni employees will have to start paying for their parking spots at work. At $80, the monthly parking
SF News SNOOZEFLASH: Muni Not So On-Time Would an 85% on-time record be enough to satisfy the disgruntled riders of Muni trains and buses? That was the voter-mandated percentage as of 1999, but the best Muni has done so far
SF News Muni Phone Robberies Continue While en route downtown via a Muni train bus last night, a man was robbed of his smartphone after two men brandished a gun. According to SF Weekly, "The two men got onto
SF News Muni Operations Chief Would Like You to Suck it Up, Outerlands Train Riders In a hearing yesterday regarding unscheduled "switch-backs" on the N-Judah and L-Taraval lines, Supes Carmen Chu and John Avalos voiced concerns from their constituents in the Sunset and Excelsior districts about what a
misc Muni Uniform Jacket For $200 Be the envy/contempt of all the next time you saunter into a party while sporting this lumpy, iconic Muni uniform jacket. Who is selling this haberdashery gem? Not sure. "At the low-low
SF News Muni Ends Hiring Freeze; About Half of All Muni Drivers Aren't Working Each Day Of the 2,100 Muni drivers currently employed by the SF MTA, some 900 or so are unavailable for work on any given day due to sick leave, long-term leave, or days off.
SF News More Parking Tickets In 2011 This should go over swimmingly with some San Franciscans. Looking to fill Muni's $21 million budget shortfall, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials plan on ticketing divers more in 2011. Yes, in lieu
SF News Cyclists, Please Stop Taking The Escalators Reminder: We know San Francisco is turning into a playground for cyclists - and with good reason, since they are clearly doing God's work - but please do not haul your green machine
SF News SFPD Breaks Up Muni Pickpocketing Ring Yesterday, San Francisco Police arrested Eduardo Cuidad, a man suspected of multiple Muni-based pickpocketings and probably connected to "a handful of other suspects" who work the bus lines to lift credit cards and
misc ‘Muni’ or ‘the Muni’? The former, obviously. However, according to this Bank of America ad, it's just dandy to preface "Muni" with a definite article. Wanna fight about it? Fine. Head over to Muni Diaries or Language
SF News A Tree Falls Down In Noe Valley In splat-related news, Muni Diaries has word that, during this morning's commute, a big tree fell down and knocked over "electrical wires on the outbound J line between the 22nd and 24th street
misc What Would You Do With Your Own Muni Shelter? Julie Michelle's fabulous I Live Here: SF retrospective show ends next Tuesday with a closing reception. Along with one-hundred eighty beautiful photographs and stories, the show includes some great props throughout the gallery
misc New Muni Shelters Not So Good for Sideways Rain Were you waiting for a bus out in the rain this weekend? Were you under one of the 91 new red or yellow-roofed Muni Shelters? And if you were, how did you ever
SF News Recent Spate of Muni Delays Not Your Imagination After enduring a number of painful delays on the Muni underground himself, SFMTA board member Malcolm Heinicke called a meeting last week to discuss the "unusually" high number of delays in recent months.
SF News Fare Inspectors Out in Full Force Along 38 Line Today SFist rode the 38 out to the Richmond and back today, and along the way we encountered about seven fare inspectors. The first inspector was en route to catch the 29 bus and
SF News More Muni Underground Delays A fuming Jay Barmann sends us this message, "Running an errand downtown and once again Muni underground is having 'technical difficulties' that are causing major congestion inbound." Which, oddly enough, happened the same
SF News Outer Sunset Fire Causes Injuries, Delays Causing $1 million worth of damage, an Outer Sunset fire at a three-story home at 1351 44th Avenue. The fire displaced four residents and send a man to the hospital. What's more, the
misc Watch a Time-Lapse Video of the J-Church Rail Replacement Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo. Streetsblog just posted this fun time-lapse video of three days worth of rail replacement work on the J-Church line at
SF News Muni Ridership Down 4%, But Bottom Line Is Fine The SF MTA reports that for the fiscal year that ended June 30, Muni ridership decreased by 10 million riders last year, a total of 4.4%. The biggest decrease was seen on
