SF News Muni Train Service Halts Again Following Equipment Trouble, Key Personnel Testing COVID-Positive After only one weekday back in service, all Muni light-rail trains are going offline again for at least several weeks following an equipment failure on Monday, and a worker in the Muni Metro control center testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News First Weekday Of Major Muni Metro Changes Includes Overhead Wire Problem As of Saturday, August 22, Muni riders have been getting to see how some major changes are working on the Muni Metro train lines — and Monday morning all the new signs went up erasing the K and L lines from core-tunnel stations.
SF News Muni Baseball Bat Attack May be Investigated as a Hate Crime New allegations emerge in last week’s attack of a Muni driver, with claims that the deplorable teens punched and spit on the driver, and accused him of having COVID-19 because he’s Asian.
SF News Muni Driver Attacked With Bat After Telling Three Passengers To Put on Masks Three young men who boarded a Muni bus near San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood are suspected of assaulting the driver with a bat after repeatedly being asked to put on face masks.
SF News SFMTA Director Speaks to New York Times About Agency's Dire Finances The SFMTA is on course to lose more than a half billion dollars in revenue over the next four years, and director Jeffrey Tumlin warns we’re seeing a “transit death spiral.”
SF News Muni Likely To Cut Many Bus Lines In Coming Years As More Commuters Turn To Cars Transit advocates and planners at the SFMTA are facing a grim reality that no one could have seen coming, and it may mean a permanent end for dozens of Muni bus lines.
SF News Muni Announces Major Light-Rail Changes As It Makes Plan To Restart Train Service In August The SFMTA is going to be significantly altering how trains run through the Muni Metro tunnels from West Portal through downtown San Francisco when the system reopens for business in August.
SF News Muni Is Restoring Some More Bus Routes This Weekend and Street Sweeping Resumes Monday Saturday will see the restoration of several bus routes, and increased frequencies on the bus shuttle routes currently replacing Muni Metro service. Also, street cleaning begins again next week, and tickets will start being issued once more.
SF Politics SFMTA Reaches Truce With Supes, Agrees to No Muni Fare Increases for Two Years SF Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce that they have reached an agreement with SFMTA leadership to halt all Muni fare increases for two years.
SF News SFMTA Unveils Plan For More 'Slow Streets'; Muni Chief Discusses the Future of Public Transit on NPR The SFMTA has just published its amended plan for temporarily closing more city streets to vehicle traffic in order to allow more freedom for pedestrians, runners, and cyclists to occupy the roadway.
SF News Muni To Increase Bus Frequency On Eight Lines Starting This Weekend The SFMTA just announced that it will be boosting the frequency of buses on eight of the "core" transit lines currently in operation, in order to increase the ability of passengers to socially distance themselves from each other.
SF News SF to ‘Close’ Car Traffic on Several Streets to Promote Social Distancing The city adopts Oakland-style car bans on streets, but the number of streets closing is less than overwhelming, and it appears the program will employ honor system enforcement.
SF News As Muni Scales Back Service, Healthcare Workers Left Figuring How To Get To Work As the SFMTA shut down all but 17 of its 79 bus and train routes on Wednesday, riders who still need to move around the city — including healthcare and other frontline workers — are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks.
SF News Muni to Shut Down All Train Service Next Week, Operate Buses Only Due to the significant drop in ridership and reported weekly losses of $1 million, the SFMTA announced late Wednesday that Muni Metro train service will shut down indefinitely on March 30, with bus shuttles replacing those train routes.
SF News Here's What Muni Looked Like at 8:30 AM Monday Morning As coronavirus panic truly takes hold in San Francisco this week and tens of thousands of downtown office workers are telecommuting, the Muni Metro was near empty during the prime time of 8:30 this morning.
SF News Another Muni Meltdown Destroys Morning Commute A track-switching problem caused headaches for commuters on Muni Wednesday morning, with trains slowed to a crawl, bus shuttles trying to fill in gaps, and lots of San Franciscans late for work.
SF News Muni Underground Service to Stop After 9:30 p.m. in Late January For About a Week The SFMTA is undertaking another week (or so) of maintenance on the Muni Metro later this month, and this will mean no underground service for commuters leaving the office late or anyone trying to get home after dinner by train.
SF News Fresh Flaws Found in New Muni Train Cars as It Turns Out They Rear-End Each Other The “Fleet of the Future” takes another hit — literally — as double cars are found prone to detaching and bumping into one another.
SF News Expect Extra-Crowded Muni Trains As New Fleet Gets Taken Offline For More Repairs The SFMTA is warning commuters that trains could feel especially crowded Thursday as it takes all the new fleet of Metro trains offline for emergency repairs. Also, it's still raining, so...
SF News Rainstorm Floods Muni and Multiple Corners of San Francisco As has happened many times before, heavy rain flooded parts of the Muni Metro system on Saturday, shutting down train service into Saturday evening between Embarcadero and West Portal.
SF News Muni Equipment Problem Causes Monday Afternoon Rush-Hour Delays A downed overhead power line at Embarcadero and Folsom earlier this morning is leading to residual delays in the Muni Metro system — an all-too-familiar situation for commuters on Muni.
SF Politics Multiple Transit Directors Nationwide Reportedly Turned Down SFMTA Job A few days after learning that Mayor Breed had named her pick for SFMTA chief, we're hearing that a few people with more direct experience leading urban transit agencies may have scoffed at the job after seeing how Breed treated Ed Reiskin.
SF News Mayor Appoints Stone Cold Fox Jeffrey Tumlin To Lead SFMTA Mayor London Breed has named her selection for the new director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and while very qualified he's also pretty hot.
SF News M-Ocean View Underground Tunnel Expansion to Parkmerced Could Get Fast-Tracked SFMTA has been floating the ‘tunnel under 19th Avenue’ plan for years but, but an impending doubling of housing units in Parkmerced brings urgency to the matter.
SF News Muni Apologizes For Diverting Bayview Buses For Chase Center, Offers Free Rides Muni got called out Tuesday night after the supervisor who represents the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods found out that bus drivers were being siphoned away from the bus lines that service those neighborhoods in order to cover the new event-night shuttle routes for the Chase Center.
