Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Fewer Garbage Cans in San Francisco :( (And what are the brand names adorning the garbage strewn about our city according to a recent study? Let's see, in order: McDonalds, San Francisco Muni, Burger King, Starbucks, Safeway, FedEx and Jack
SF News Day Around The Bay --Doesn't that MUNI car look gorgeous? [Picture by DottieBoBottie from the SFist Flickr stream.] --No fireworks in Oakland this July 4. [Chron] --Enigmatic rock-tosser and Democratic presidential contender Mike Gravel was at Pride
SF News We Like to Watch (Muni) Who's project is this? Who's running the show? We have no idea. All we can do is glue our eyes to the screen, watching unsuspecting San Franciscans milling around at train stations. The
SF News Fake Question Time 6: MUNI For those of you still a few SFist obsessions back (before Ed Jew, around the same time as Jennifer Siebel, and after the District 6 election), Gavin Newsom's Fake Question Time neighborhood lecture
SF News Transit Picnic, Yum! You probably want to know more about this amazing vision, don't you? Yes, you do. Luckily, there's a picnic happening TODAY, hosted by SPUR (the always-correct urban planning group) as thanks to Jake
SF News Muni Fails at Everything If you're a subway rider, you've probably already noticed that Muni's running on manual today. Their signaling system -- the one that run on OS/2 -- is, as always, experiencing problems. They're
SF News Free BART Tix Okay, we're not sure how this is going to play out, but: apparently BART is giving away free tickets at Justin Herman plaza today at 1:30. (Just in time for the lunch
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.... ...as for the bathroom, this is a HUGE problem. A lot of drivers carry around empty plastic bottles… There’s something
misc Good Touch The attached image was created in timely response to a two-week-old article on SFGate, in which John King confesses of the proposed Muni shelters, "I've got my favorites, but only two or three
SF News Another Driverless Muni A three-minute wait isn't a big deal, at least not in a geological time-frame. But in transit, it can make or break a schedule. Take, for example, the 33 route this past Saturday,
SF News June Muni Payout Part 2: $157,736.31 Some of the cases are pretty standard -- personal injury, property damage, etc etc etc. (We winced upon reading of one plaintiff who was whacked in the face when they grabbed for a
SF News Always Bring Your Camera Hi everyone! Here's a quick reminder: never ride Muni without a camera. We got the following report from a reader yesterday: "The driver had a full (standing room only) one-car J train (#1477)
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy We're cool like that. I have noticed a lot more inspectors recently, usually on the t or the n, ( I don't ride the buses). They are polite efficent, and 9 times out of
Arts & Entertainment One Book To Bind Them: One City One Book 2007 But you know a banner we can all unite under? The One City One Book: San Francisco Reads program. Imagine, hordes of people reading a sort of narrative story on paper! No electricity
SF News Please let go of the Doors Oh how we hate that high-pitched whine generated by held-open subway doors. It hurts, but of course, that's the -- it's supposed to make you let go of the door so the whole
SF News Ask a Muni Driver I have to start addressing the above questions by reminding everyone that I’m not at liberty to give out the kind of super-specific details that might make my identity obvious. So I
SF News More Muni Problems? Shocking! OMFG there totally just a street fair in the Haight! Did you know it was coming? Muni apparently did not, as the bus arrangement were decidedly last-minute. (Either that, or Muni simply didn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Muni's F-Market Line - Steel is Real Update: You commenters are always so clever - this worker could be a volunteer, instead of a Muni employee as we had originally assumed. Thanks!
SF News Something Going Down in the Mission Right Now We just got an SMS that traffic (including Muni) is blocked on Potrero between 20th and 22nd, and that everyone is advised to avoid the area. What's going on? Anyone nearby? We can't
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy The unit has been around since 1999, created to handle mostly fare evasion or Proof of Payment "POP" starting with a group of approximately 20 persons-all transfers from other places in MUNI and
SF News Day Around The Bay --Everyone knows it's windy! (whistle, whistle-whistle, whistle, whistle-whistle-whistle whistle). --They're not sure what caused the Embarcadero station to fill up with smoke this morning, halting BART and MUNI service. --Chris Daly called Gavin
SF News Muni Soon to Get EVEN BETTER The point is, Muni's announcing some service changes. You're just going to have to take our word for it, though, because as usual the information isn't on their website yet. (We once asked
SF News Day Around The Bay --As you may have heard in the comments to the latest Oh No, Ed Jew! column, MUNI is thinking about having the N go out to the Caltrain station again. Yay! We may
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sleeping According to the Chron, Tapioca Ed, did, however, have the time to pen an essay for the Sunset Beacon (which has not yet put Jew's essay online, but you can read last month's)
SF News Ask a Muni Driver And second, our driver would like to state this disclaimer before we go ahead. I am not an official spokesperson for anything except my opinion as a MUNI driver, San Franciscan, and daily
