SF news Muni Stopped Citing People for Fare Evasion During the Pandemic. So What Were We Paying Those Fare Inspectors To Do? Muni basically stopped enforcing fare violations during the pandemic, issuing merely 325 citations during a two-year period. Yet they still employed 43 fare inspectors full-time, which seems perhaps a waste of money?
SF News The 21-Hayes Returns Saturday, Along With Previously COVID-Canceled Buses 6-Haight-Parnassus and 2-Sutter Three semi-major Muni routes that have been on mothballs for nearly two and a half years will return Saturday, with many other lines being extended back to pre-pandemic levels, and transit lovers are planning a 21-Hayes party.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In Muni Shooting Won't Be Charged With Homicide Javon Green, the suspect in last week's fatal shooting on Muni, won't be charged with homicide according to his attorney; a 31-year-old woman was charged with setting a hill on fire in Albany; and BART fares go up on Friday.
SF News Muni Shooting Suspect May Have Acted In Self-Defense; Video Shows Victim With Knife A look at Muni surveillance video from Wednesday morning's fatal shooting on board a Muni train reportedly shows an altercation between suspect and victim that was more than verbal, prior to shots being fired.
SF News Photo of Person of Interest Released In Castro Muni Shooting The SFPD released a photo of a person of interest Wednesday night in the fatal shooting on board a Muni train bound for Castro Station that occurred Wednesday morning.
SF News Why Is This Prop A Ballot Measure Asking for Another $400 Million for Muni? An Explainer The SFMTA and Mayor Breed are asking SF voters to approve a $400 million Muni upgrade bond measure to lift it out of the floppy disk era, and oddly, tech companies are writing huge checks to get this thing passed.
SF News Body Found on Tracks In Visitacion Valley Was Person Struck By Muni Train; Victim May Have Been Dragged After the SFPD put out the vaguest of vague reports about human remains found on rail tracks on the south side of San Francisco Sunday night, more details are coming to light and the SFMTA is admitting that this person was hit by a T-Third train.
SF News Muni Ridership Hits 67% of Pre-Pandemic Levels on Weekends, 54% on Weekdays Much as BART has seen a return of riders a bit moreso on weekends than during commuting hours on weekdays, the SFMTA is reporting a similar pattern on Muni buses and trains — though one bus line is now at 133% of its pre-pandemic riders.
SF News One Month In, SFMTA Says Van Ness BRT Slashing Trip Times By Up To 35% Was it worth many years of construction and hassle? The SFMTA has the early numbers on the new Van Ness bus lanes, and says they’re cutting down trip times and leading to a boom in 49-Van Ness ridership.
SF News Report: Central Subway Opening Likely to be Delayed Yet Again, Might Not Happen This Year Stop us if you’ve heard this before! SFMTA says the Central Subway to Chinatown is on track to open September 9, but a federal monitor, and everyone not on the SFMTA payroll, says we’re looking at December or well into next year.
SF News Van Ness BRT Will Indeed Be Running April 1, After Years as a Running Joke A weary San Francisco has learned to roll its eyes at any announcement of progress on the Van Ness bus lane construction project, but the Van Ness Improvement Project really will have its grand opening in less than a week.
SF News No Fooling! The Van Ness Rapid Transit Project Will Be Completed April 1 SFMTA is confident enough that they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re already scheduling the ribbon-cutting and party ceremony, and after nearly 18 years of red tape, the red lanes will finally have buses cruising through them.
SF News J Trains Return to Downtown Tunnels as Muni Slowly Comes Back to Life After two years of mostly abbreviated service, SF Muni lines are nearly all back and up and running at near pre-pandemic levels. And this weekend marks the return of Sunday night service until midnight, and the return of continuous J-Church service to Embarcadero.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Muni Warns Of Major Delays Due to Staffing Issues Gunfire in East Oakland damaged some Comcast lines and led to a major cable outage during Sunday's football game, Muni delays are being caused by COVID-related staffing shortages, and demand for tests in SF is way down.
SF News 14-Mission Driver Badly Beaten, Eyewitnesses Say Police Let the Attacker Get Away Passengers describe the Muni driver as being dragged on the street and bloodied in the attack, and say police showed little interest in the suspect before merely moving on.
SF News Muni and Caltrain Free Again on New Year’s Eve, BART Hours Extended (But Still Full Price) Both Muni and Caltrain will offer free service on New Year's Eve, and while BART will not be free, they’re running an extra 1 a.m. train.
SF News ‘Butt Divots’ Are Coming Back, as Muni Is Rolling Out New, Redesigned Train Seats Your “back door” will be more comfortable again on Muni trains, as SFMTA is rolling out a new fleet of seats, and two trains with the new seats are already in the wild.
SF News SFMTA Announces a Few Temporary Route Cutbacks Due to Unvaccinated Drivers on Leave As forewarned earlier this month, Muni is having to curtail some bus service due to a number of drivers who have refused to be vaccinated, or who will not be fully vaccinated by the November 1 deadline — but the route cutbacks are fairly minor.
SF News Most Muni Bus Routes Will Likely Be Restored By Spring; J-Church Riders Unhappy About Having to Transfer The SFMTA announced the next step in its process to restore Muni service to near pre-pandemic levels, with a proposed plan to restore five out of seven of the currently suspended bus routes by February or thereabouts.
SF News Muni Service Could Be Impacted Around Outside Lands Weekend If Unvaccinated Muni Drivers Don't Get Shots The SFMTA is warning of possible service cuts in the coming weeks due to the still large number of transit operators who have not reported being vaccinated — with the city's deadline for all city employees to be fully vaccinated approaching on November 1.
SF News SFMTA Seeks Public Input on Whether to Restore Suspended Bus Routes Versus Increase Frequency on Popular Lines Muni ridership remains less than half of what it was before the pandemic, because almost nobody is commuting downtown these days. And the SFMTA is facing some tough decisions as it looks to restore more service in 2022, so it's looking for the public's input on how to proceed.
SF News New Muni Metro Extensions to Richmond District, Fisherman's Wharf Proposed by Staff Staff at the SFMTA presented proposals this week to construct a new Muni Metro line that would connect downtown with the Richmond District along Geary Boulevard, as well as extending the still-under-construction Central Subway to Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News M-Ocean View Trains Return Aug. 14 Along With Six Restored Bus Routes One more Muni Metro route is returning to service on Saturday along with a half dozen restored Muni bus routes, a new bus route for Lake Merced, and a bunch of route extensions and changes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Muni Lines May Not Return After Pandemic Mayor Breed’s comments have some Muni riders suspicious that certain bus lines might never return, the 49ers add an Antioch native to the roster, and the Castro Street Fair is back on for 2021.
SF News Pride Revelers Beware: Muni Shuts Early, Uber and Lyft Rides Are Going to Be Expensive You may want to strap on some good walking shoes if you're planning to party-hop during this late-pandemic Pride Weekend in San Francisco, because things aren't exactly back to normal with public transportation or the world of rideshares.
