Arts & Entertainment CalTrain of Thought Other local trains featured in the book include MUNI's F-line and the famous cable car, with a cameo appearance by your very own Golden Gate Bridge, of course. (Yay! The next generation of
SF News The New Muni Hybrids: Hot or ... Hot? We've ridden Muni's new hybrids along both the 27 and 48 routes for a couple of weeks now, and our experience has been slightly mixed. The good aspects are that the buses are
SF News SFist Pulls Muni's Strings Like Bella Lugosi in Plan 9 Hopefully this will make up for how we apparently RUINED EVERYONE'S DAY last Tuesday by trying to make fun of some fucking buses. Now let's call it even and move on with our
SF News NextBus, NextMus-tache What we find especially amusing about this defaced photo is that when Selma Blair recently admitted her flaws to the public, she mentioned bleaching. Blair confessed the following to UK mag, Dazed and
SF News Free Earthlink WiFi Deal Dies Gavin Newsom says he's committed to finding another private company to set up the whole system, and blames the Board of Supervisors for the deal falling through because they wanted more information before
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, the SF Weekly. [For some reason, they haven't updated the website at the time we're writing this. We'll try and add the links in when they update their site. Does this have
SF News Day Around the Bay -- John O'Neill, the man killed last week by an N-Judah a J-Church train, died while saving his pup, Cappy. If there is a heaven, O'Neill is up there. [Chron] -- Spare the
SF News Your Commute: Did You Spare The Air? And for those of you commuting by car today, don't you you spared the air? A truck overturned right at the 92/101 S interchange (those ramps are pretty steeply banked) around 4
SF News NextMuni's Leaking Data For Classified Diesel Lines A few weeks ago, observant Muniwatchers noticed that some diesel lines had been added to the official NextMuni site: the 38, for example. Yay! But some lines still lingered in offline purgatory: the
SF News Muni Alert: Get Out of Town, and Stay Out Not only is Muni adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on one of the days. On Monday, Sept 3rd, a bunch of lines will be suspended
SF News Where We Whine About The Weather So it's going to be stiflingly hot for the next few days (yes, we know, it's not as bad as it is in every other part of the country, but ) -- but in
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Tzssss: Golden Gate Bridge gets branded. (They won't really have billboards on the bridge, but who would want to see tasty Pizza Rolls high above, or why Sally Field stays so ramrod
SF News Your Commute: BART Delays; Fire In Embarcadero Just in time for the Friday commute -- a MUNI fire has closed the Embarcadero station. BART trains are going through without stopping, the Chron doesn't know what's going on with MUNI. The
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy So Ken MacDonald is good, eh? Tell us more. That I've seen, Mr. McDonald has been very good. He's been out to almost every service disruption in person and not just standing there
SF News Old Map Mascot: Murray Found on Octoferret's Flickr account -- which also features a way boss lineup of old (and somewhat fury-inducing compared to today's) maps and buses -- is a long-forgotten mascot from the '70s, Murray.
SF News That Sounds About Right If you'd like to reproduce this NextMuni bug (which only occurs late at night, after the last trains leave), Octoferret's lovely Flickr stream contains details. Obviously it's an error -- what it should
SF News Going To Oceanview Tonight? At three o'clock today we tried to take the M out to SF State. The overhead sign at Church Station switched from showing only "K in Seven Minutes" to "Next Trains In Subway
SF News August Muni Payout: $131,695.06 The biggest payout is $47,500 to a guy who broke his ankle when the bus lurched forward before he could sit. Ouch. The driver in question was Daniel Johnson, driver number 1324.
SF News SFist Blotter Yet another pedestrian hit by yet another MUNI bus in the Richmond -- this time, the 1 California at 22nd Ave. Plus, Caltrain hit a car this morning too. More murder counts for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: MUNI vs. Pedestrian, Park Presidio Update Yellow police tape and a blue glove from a first responder at the northwesteast corner of the intersection of Park Presidio and Balboa We still don't know the cause of the fatal accident
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy How I would fix MUNI. (Disclaimer: I am not an administrative professional but this is my way): Major realignment of the Divisions / Departments I would simplify the tree a bit, making the chain
SF News Bus Shelter Makes A Funny From the 22 shelter on Haight near Fillmore. We're not sure how we stand on anthropomorphizing your beverages, but that ad is pretty funny.
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond asks why's everything got to be a public/private thing around here. Also, they hate the new Don Fisher museum. A poignant letter about the failures
SF News We're Never Going To Get Translink But no! A BART official working on the Translink project has said, while they've got the system running for AC Transit, Golden Gate ferries and buses, and MUNI trains, he doesn't think MUNI
SF News Local Fire And Brimstone (If By Brimstone We Mean Generalized Trouble) Did you see (video footage) all that smoke (pictures) yesterday? A fire at 17th and Noe Street between the Mission and the Castro at around 6:30 yesterday evening displaced at least 14
