SF News Your Commute: Onwards and Upwards to Phase II MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2
SF News Stuart "Fare Hike" Sunshine Fails Upward, Lands in Mayor's Office We don't have anything funny to say about this one -- we're simply at a loss. Rumor had it yesterday that Gavin picked Stuart Sunshine to be his new Deputy Chief of Staff,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Cool Web Sites For the Day First up is Menutopia. Ever want to go to a restaurant but not sure if they'd have anything you'd like? Or want to plan ahead in advance? You could go to Citysearch but
SF News How'd Question Time Go? Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very
SF News Hub This For those who've taken MUNI all the way down, a lot of buses (the 10, 30, 47 and 49) kind of end up there as it's a bus hub. It's one of those
SF News Travelling Riverside Blues On Friday, a judge ruled against the union but said that the city could redact or black out personal information as they see fit. If this was the Bush administration, that would mean
SF News T-Third Comes In a Little Short MUNI doesn't even appear to be aware of the issue, or at least not until ABC 7 pointed it out. Talk about embarrassing. There are things they can do to fix it, mainly
SF News Let it Ride At last night's meeting, they talked about ways to make up the budget shortfalls. Proposed ideas are the usual ones: lots of fee increases (parking, license and tickets) and selling residential parking passes
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
Arts & Entertainment Martin Luther King Day Events There's a whole bunch of events going on today, most of which are either happening now or have already started. We would have gotten to this post earlier, but like a lot of
SF News A Peek Into the Secret, Exciting Life of the MTA Board The excitement begins with a call to order! Then a roll call, an announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices, approval of minutes, and then, at long last, "communications." Communications with whom? We're
SF News TEPping Out With My Baby In order to get the buses to run on time, MUNI tried out all sorts of whacky things like having supervisors monitor the buses, have people work overtime to make up for absent
SF News Your Fun MUNI Story of the Day We got this story from Friend of SFist, Ian about his MUNI adventure over the weekend. We were on a 43 bus last night that was hit by a drunk driver on Haight
Arts & Entertainment Check Out SFist MattyMatt! As we promised earlier, SFist MattyMatt was indeed on! NBC 11 News this evening -- in the sweet spot right before the weather! -- talking about his 33 MUNI bus video clip with
Arts & Entertainment Tonight at Eleven: A Sad Reflection on Today's Society Among the questions asked while leaning conspiratorially forward: "Is this a sad reflection on today's society?" Why, yes, Jean, it is. In fact, we feel that everything about today's society reflects sadly on
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Douche of the Week We've all seen it happen before-- somebody either tries to get on or off MUNI in ways that they're not supposed to and when the MUNI driver actually tries to enforce the rules,
misc Bay Area Wanderer: The First Morning * Bay Area Wanderer: Balboa and 42nd Ave, San Francisco Homeward-bound down Balboa, the first morning looks like a success. Blue overhead and crisp to the skin. A foghorn sounded off in the distance.
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
Arts & Entertainment What's Up For the New Year So with that in mind, what is there to do tomorrow night? Well, we don't know actually as it's looking like it'll be movie night, but for those of you looking to go
SF News Delays: Not Just For BART Anymore The other MUNI rail-line to experience trouble was the J which this morning also went down. The trouble there was not wind related, but an issue with the "pantograph." The pantograph is not
Arts & Entertainment Happy Festivus Whlie tomorrow is technically Festivus, we thought we'd get a head start on the holiday that's the holiday for the rest of us. So here's snippets from the "Seinfeld" episode that started it
SF News Street Map of FastPass Vendors Created by Heroic Secret Underground Resistance Y'see, if you want to find out where FastPasses are sold, Muni won't show you a map of locations -- instead, they provide a text-only list of vendors, sorted by their zip codes.
SF News Muni's Contempt for all That is Good and Holy Becomes Even Less Thinly Veiled Than we Ever Thought Possible We thought we'd seen it all -- surly drivers, electrical failures, manslaughter -- but tonight Muni managed to outdo itself yet again. After waiting 30 minutes for the 33 (a bus that's supposed
SF News MUNI Wants to Know What Love Is Actually, the survey isn't as easy as you think, mainly because they want you to prioritize a few things or at least let them know what you consider the most important things to
misc SFist Answers: Crack Cocaine, MUNI, And Bettie Page This week we cover hard drugs, bodily functions, and most agonizing of all -- MUNI. Keep those questions flowin' to [email protected]. Include your question, your name, and your city/neighborhood – just
