SF News Translink, Where Are You? We roll our eyes whenever politicians whine about Muni losing money (public transportation is not a for-profit enterprise anywhere), we do get frustrated when we see pass-fakers, gate-crashers, and other reasons that showcase
SF News Muni Disability Disruption Delay SFist James sends us this photo, care of Matt Bellinger, of some packed albeit controversial Muni action that happened this afternoon during rush hour. Wheelchair man, it seems, demanded to get on per
SF News Your Daily Muni Delay: Police Activity Shakes Up Your Commute Oh oh. Looks like your commute home might be an exciting one filled with delays and packed trains. According to 511, "at 3:10pm, Muni reports all inbound and outbound lines on the
misc REVEALED! What the Seat-Hogging Lady Was Thinking Mystery solved! Probably! Thanks our perceptive readers, we have learned what was maybe on the mind of the lady we posted about yesterday, the one who was gently blocking access to an empty
misc Know-It-Alls Form Taxi Group, Formulate Plan to Claim Vague Accomplishments Of course the real question is: how can you, the average Joe, meddle and interfere with this process? Well, you can't. Not much. The MTA is soliciting applications for the "Taxi Advisory Group,
SF News Muni pickpocket case solved Aw. This story will toast your hearts to a golden brown. See, a gentleman on the 28-19th Avenue line, someone who spoke very little English, felt a hoodlum reach into his pocket and
misc What's Going On Here, Powell Street Station? From the station that brought you Chinese water torture, we now have asbestos warnings and some sort of clear plastic tubing thingy that looks like it appeared in E.T. Fun!
SF News City Awards Muni Victim $2 Million Remember that lady who was struck by an N-Judah on Irving Street earlier this year in January? The victim, Dina Gryn, lost part of her leg after the accident, so SF is ponying
SF News Scene from a Civic Center Station Muni Platform Taken at the Civic Center station, this (bloodied) gentleman came off an inbound train early this morning and collapsed. Anyone know what happened? Is he OK? Poor guy.
SF News Bart/Muni Bans Segways What with gas prices soaring, Segways -- those two-wheeled, self-balancing, electric scooter-ish type vehicles -- have seen a boom in sales recently. One Segway sales person in Oakland have seen sales triple over
misc Photo du Jour 153 Muni meltdown: Here's a fresh shot from 7:45 a.m.. this morning, where the T-Third and N-Judah lines were backed up from the tunnel at Embarcadero to King Street in both directions.
misc It's a Beautiful Day to PresidiGo Fortunately, there's another bus that you can take to the Presidio -- it's free, it's comfortable (big soft comfy seats!) and it even runs on natural gas. It's called the "PresidiGo," and it's
SF News UPDATE: Raw Footage of Muni Train Crash KTVU has some choice footage of last Saturday's Muni crash over on King Street near AT&T Park. Since major news networks inexplicably don't believe in the religion of Embedded Code, we
SF News Scene from a Muni Wait When it's not playing bumper cars and sending passengers to the hospital, it's... well, not doing anything at all. The above shot was taken last night at the N-Judah platform at 4th and
SF News Muni Driver May Have Felt the Need, the Need for Speed Last Saturday's T-Third meets N-Judah collision might be, according to to investigators, might have been the result of a speeding Muni driver and/or someone chatting on their cell phone. KCBS reports: Investigators
SF News Two Trains Running: Muni Lines Collide An astonishing twelve passengers were sent to the hospital on Saturday after a T-Third train slammed into the back of a two-car N-Judah. The accident happened near AT&T Park on King
SF News A Safer Muni Ride: SFMTA Gets Millions Your daily commute just got safer. Well, hopefully. The Office of Homeland Security just awarded the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) a crisp $7 million "to improve security and public safety on
SF News Accident Snarls K/T Muni Line We received word this morning that a collision, possibly a motorcycle-meets-Muni accident, is blocking the T and K lines near Bayview. 511 has this to say: On Thursday, June 12th at 8:10am,
SF News Oats Bests Cobb During yesterday's hotly contested Muni Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, Leonard Oats beat frontrunners Ken Lunardi and Byron Cobb to snag the title of Best Bell Ringing MUNI Employee in the Universe. In
misc Gavin Newsom to Attend to Muni's Greatest Challenge: Banging Two Pieces of Metal Together Here at SFist, we are not impressed with percussive instruments. Calling a drum circle "music" is like calling crosswalk stripes "a painting." But there's something sort of impressive about an experienced cable car
misc Muni's 2008 APTA Rail Scandal: Not Actually All That Scandalous On one hand: saying "welcome" is good manners, and the APTA thing -- a big transit conference -- is kind of prestigious. The main highlight, according to a Muni press release, is a
SF News Another Muni-Pedestrain Collision, This Time the 12-Folsom A couple days after a woman was fatally stuck and killed by a 71-Haight-Noriega bus at Sixth and Market streets, a man was hit by a 12-Folsom bus (our favorite line!). According to
SF News Muni Bus Strikes, Kills Woman at Sixth and Market Streets Early this morning at 8:24 a.m., an "adult female" was struck a 60-foot 71-Haight-Noriega bus on Market and Sixth Streets. She was transported to SF General Hospital, where she later died.
