SF News Muni Demands Human Sacrifice Yet Again Don't look now, but there's been another Municide. Details are sketchy, but it looks like a bus hit a young woman on Market near the cablecar turnaround at 5pm. Traffic was closed down,
SF News Delays In Service It's not often that we have sympathy for agencies' delayed-service problems, but allow us to go all BART apologist Linton Johnson and/or SFPD apologist Neville Gittens on you here and offer our
SF News Our Extreme Makeover You astute readers have probably deduced that something's afoot at the 'Fist, what with all these newfangled layouts and buttons and whatnot -- along with some weird problems with comments and post uploading
SF News Pardon Me Boy, Was that the Palo Alto Station? You know those "baby bullet" trains Caltrains implemented that everybody loves and increased ridership? Not everyone is feeling the love. See, the express trains have been so popular that more people are riding
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Fishing on Craigslist Walk around the corner, and you'll be at Market and 14th. You'd imagine the hustle and bustle to propagate half a block away. But it's almost like the video rental place with the
SF News Getting Your Money's Worth on Muni ... Even on the Days That it Isn't Free Here's the good news: you remember how Muni had NextBus info available for all the electric lines, but declined to make that info public, saying that the data wasn't reliable yet? Intrepid SFist
SF News Spare Us! Even SFist Jon's refraining from his usual earth-killing self-absorption and staying off the road in his evil, evil car! Instead, he'll be live blogging the Australia vs Croatia game today at noon for
misc Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Seven Eve Batey: Something that we always wonder when we go fill out that form on the website, when we have a complaint or a comment or something, where does it go? What happens?
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Six Eve Batey: While we're on all these initiatives, how about TransLink? What's going on there? Nathainel Ford: Okay. I guess Translink has had its challenges. It’s a new technology. I’m part
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Five Eve Batey: What about Transit.511? Nathaniel Ford: Okay. Now I’ve heard about some challenges we’re having with Transit.511, and that in some cases it’s not giving as accurate
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Four Eve Batey: Well, this is going to kind of put you on the spot, and, frankly, I don't know how honest you can be, but I have to ask: Is the Central Subway
misc Dear Mr Ford: Special Bay To Breakers Edition After finishing the Bay to Breakers, my spouse and I were good little citizens and walked to the MUNI buses that were lined up to take us back toward downtown. We had paid
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Two NF: There’s an effort that’s going on right now which is the Transit Effectiveness Project, and it started before I got here. But similarly, we were doing something similar in Atlanta,
SF News CSI Plumpjack -- Cancelled The Chron's Leah Garchik gets all the good dirt -- she breaks the news in Friday's The In Crowd that Gavin Newsom has parted ways with Scientologist/actress Sofia Milos. Your gossip hounds
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part One Nathaniel Ford: Thanks for coming in. Eve Batey: Oh, thank you for having me. NF: By all means. I guess this will be an opportunity for you to get to know me and
SF News The First Rule of NextBus: There is no NextBus All of the electric busses -- every single one, on every single electric line -- have NextBus transponders. They've had 'em since December. (The diesel busses are getting hooked up soon, too.) They've
SF News Bikes 1, Cars 0 The "Healthy Park's Initiative" (that title polled much better than "Traffic Congestion Saturday!") now goes before Gavin who gave this definitive response: "There's a chance of a veto. There's a chance I support
SF News What Would You Ask Mr Ford? We're totally afraid that we're gonna jinx ourselves by spilling the beans like this, but we can't hold back any longer: this week, we're actually going to get to ask Muni's Executive Director
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Geary Street at the Curran Theatre Spend any amount of time in a Muni or BART station and you'll find that you can't escape the ads for Martin Short's new musical, a pre-Broadway world premiere
SF News Gavin's Nominee for Muni Board Pledges NOT to Make Transit his Top Priority You know everyone on the Muni board THINKS it, but we've really got to admire someone who actually comes out and says that they've got better stuff to worry about than busses and
SF News Set Your Alarm For 5:12 A.M. We're just trying to spare you some panic tomorrow morning, folks -- if you hear bells and sirens at 5:12 a.m., no need to wonder about the cosmic coincidence of an
SF News Third Street Rail Service Still Almost a Year Away We're getting pretty antsy, waiting for service to start on Muni's fabled new Third Street line. It was originally supposed to be operational when, like, 2005? And the delays just keep mounting. The
misc Dear Mr Ford: Good (Kind Of) And Bad It wouldn't be Dear Mr Ford without an adventure with SFist Matt, would it? I must begrudgingly give Muni high marks for customer service today (even as I give it low marks for
SF News Fight For Your Right To Party Party One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems
