SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
SF News Bitch Please The key point is to get lots of details. Either write them down, or text them to yourself, or call your voicemail and leave them as a message. Details are crucial: bus number,
SF News Woman Killed After Being Hit by Muni Bus This was the second Muni related incident in a month as someone was struck and killed on the J-Church line.
SF News The T-Third Line: Already Sucking In the Ex's story, Muni is already down six trains as those six have been benched due to collisions with cars and other vehicles. Oops. Muni is saying that when everything ramps up,
SF News What You Can Ask to get a Better Prediction Yesterday, we explained why 311 is your new go-to number for all things bus-predictive. The operators at 311 have a wealth of data, y'see; much more than 511 has. But sometimes NextMuni lets
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Suppose I start at 11AM. When the bus that I take over arrives 15 minutes late, I have to play catch up. I am essentially doing my "follower's" (the bus after you) job.
SF News Weekday Non-School Update! But that doesn't clear up the bigger questions: Why is it always so hard to get usable info from Muni? Why does Muni's website say that there's no difference between school and non-school
SF News Weekday Non-School? For example, did you know that "On Cesar Chavez Day, March 30, 2007, weekday non-school schedules will be in effect"? Oh, you didn't? That must be because you don't check their alerts page
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's new 311 telephone service. The city of San Francisco officially kicked off its new 311 telephone service today. That means that you can simply dial these three digits (or 415-701-2311 if you are calling from a non-415
SF News At Last, a way to Devote Even More of your Free Time to Transit First up: an update on Muni's Transit Effectiveness Project, tomorrow (Wednesday) at 312 Sutter Street (at Grant), Fifth Floor, from 12:30 to 1:30. And then the very next day (Thursday), a
Arts & Entertainment Never Let them See You Sweat Yes, that was SFist on CBS 5 last night, hobnobbing with Phil Matier and thanks to SFist Rain, we finally have the clip of it. Watch SFist Jon pretend to be an expert
SF News Muni Drivers: Not All Bad! Okay, our treatment of Muni drivers hasn't been totally kind lately, but that doesn't mean we hate them. We yearn -- -- to write some stories about awesome drivers. And lo and behold,
SF News More Metanews In case you missed our appearance on KPIX because you spent all day yesterday getting drunk and watching The Bridges of Madison County, here it is: Of all the things in the world
SF News The Presses: Stilllllllllllll Stopped. Can you believe we're going to be on the teevee AGAIN? It's CBS this time, tonight at probably 5:30, 6:30, and 11. The lesson here: if you want a ticket to
SF News Don't Want To Leave, But We Both Know ... Sometimes It's Better To Go So goodbye, old fiend. Time to step down to open that back door in the sky. Muni's tribute: Public transportation on Third Street began as a horsecar line and converted to electric streetcar
SF News The Presses: Stopped. So now that our Muni caterwauling has landed us on all the major local news stations (Fox doesn't count), let us compare their approaches. NBC offered to drop by our house after work;
SF News Muni Driver Celebrates Bring Your Girlfriend to Work Day Muni drivers, caught on tape! Again! This time, the driver doesn't come off quite so sympathetically. We caught the 33 home last night after hanging out at a high school cafeteria, and what's
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
SF News An Update on Text-Messaging Muni (Actually, as a commenter points out, the next best thing would be a smart automated solution. Any engineery readers want to tackle such a project? That would be totally awesome.) If you'd like
SF News March Muni Payout: $57,762.63 Muni is not without defense in the Food Bank fiasco: in their answer to the complaint, Muni claimed that the Food Bank knowingly placed itself at risk, so they refused to pay for
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Opening Night! On our tightly-packed MUNI ride to the Castro to the opening night festivities for the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival, we were squooshed next to three thrilled Asian-American film lovers eagerly listing
SF News Muni Releases a few of its Cyber-Hostages Hooray! It's an awesome new day for Muni, or at least, it would be if this wasn't just reverting back to the way that things were in 2005. Longtime readers might remember that
SF News Muni's Secret Meeting About Your Children: Revealed! These meetings all are part of Muni's ongoing study on how it might go about sucking less. Allow us to suggest the following: STOP HIDING INFO IN WEB-UNFRIENDLY PDFs. It's like printing up
SF News Bad Day to Be Commuting While we were stuck in some really bad traffic this morning, we turned on the radio to get a traffic report and heard that we weren't the only ones having a rough commute.
SF News Let None Escape Muni's Grasp With your support, the physically disabled will someday ride Muni with the same freedom and comfort that the mentally disabled already enjoy.
