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.
SF News Once Again, A Foolish Driver Drove Through the Muni Tunnel At Duboce Park An SUV tore through the Sunset Tunnel on the N-Judah line on Saturday, this time making it all the way through and out the other side at Cole and Carl Streets.
SF News Muni Had Meltdown On N-Judah Line Just As Crowds Were Leaving Outside Lands Sunday Muni fails again, and this time with some drama Sunday night as an N-train's doors jam and hundreds became trapped in sweltering cars for about 40 minutes Sunday night after Paul Simon's set finished.
SF News Muni Will Shut Down Nighttime Subway Tunnel Service For Much Of August From August 12-26, shuttle buses will replace underground tunnel service starting at 9:30 p.m. on the J Church, K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, N Judah, and Third Street lines.
SF News All-Day Free Muni Rides To Come With Every Chase Center Ticket Purchase In an effort to keep people from driving or Uber-ing to the arena, the soon-to-open Chase Center and the SFMTA will be giving free Muni rides away with every ticket purchase to a concert or basketball game.
SF News Muni Dumps Water On BART, Shuts Down Embarcadero Station While testing a fire-suppression system Thursday morning, Muni sprung a leak, flooding its own Embarcadero Station and sending water cascading into the BART station below it.
SF News Muni Debates Overhauls To Poorly Designed Subway Rail System The roots of Muni’s incessant Metro train delays date back 40 years to the tracks' original design, and the SFMTA is debating fixes for the flaws, including "pocket tracks" for disabled trains.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Muni Fixes Its Door Sensors The Board of Supes rejected the appeal of the homeless Navigation Center project, Oakland's city council finally passed a budget, and the SFUSD voted to cover over a controversial mural.
SF News Mayor Appoints Task Force To Recommend Muni Fixes Ahead Of Hiring New Director Mayor London Breed, in her continued frustration with the SFMTA, has put together a working group to review all Muni service and recommend changes, months ahead of hiring a new agency director.
SF News SFMTA Wants Your Input About Extending The Central Subway Past Chinatown Want to take a train from Union Square to the Presidio? That could be an option. Someday.
SF News Anonymous Anti-Transphobia Group Puts Hangtag 'Alerts' On Muni Trains The incendiary language points to the work of Gay Shame, but these professionally printed hangtags saying "Transphobia Prohibited" came from an ostensibly new underground group called Anti-Transphobia Action.
SF News Muni’s July 1 Fare Increase For Cash-Paying Riders Not Sitting Well With Cash-Paying Riders A cash fare will cost $3 starting July 1, with no fare increase for Clipper Card or app users, prompting cries of a poverty tax.
SF News Public Invited To Comment On SFMTA Search Process For New Director The SFMTA's Search Committee for a new Director of Transportation is convening Tuesday, and the public is welcome to attend and comment — though your complaints about rush-hour meltdowns, etc., might best be left for meetings of the full board.
SF News Muni Orders More Door Inspections After New Stuck-Hand Incident, And Door That Opened While A Train Was In Motion Following the now infamous April 12 incident in which an elderly woman was dragged after a new train door clamped on her hand and wouldn't let go, a fresh incident occurred with a woman getting her hand stuck in an older train car's door, but from the inside.
SF News Thursday Morning Updates: Muni and BART Delays Hamper Commute Multiple Muni delays and a BART switching problem were messing up Thursday's commute, the Assembly votes to cap rent increases, and a 40-year-old man mysteriously died in custody at Santa Rita Jail Wednesday right before his release.
SF News Elderly Woman Dragged By Muni Train Files Claim Against City The City Attorney’s office rejected her claim that the city was responsible for her collapsed lung and broken ribs, so a lawsuit seems likely.
SF News Muni Chief Ed Reiskin To Step Down Following Friday System Meltdown Bowing to pressure from the mayor and others, the SFMTA's transit chief of eight years, Ed Reiskin, announced Monday that he would be stepping down in August.
SF News Still No Inbound Muni Service, Outbound Service Operating on Inbound Track to Van Ness Outbound trains only are running from Embarcadero to West Portal, and they're using the inbound track. Those headed to the Giants game should get to Embarcadero via BART, shuttle, or other means.
SF News Muni Has Familiar Full-On Rush-Hour Meltdown, Subway Service A Mess Headed to work this morning via the Muni Metro? Think again! All subway service is currently disrupted due to overhead power loss between Civic Center and Powell.
SF News Video Shows Elderly Woman Dragged By Muni Train Video has been released from an onboard camera on the N-Judah train whose door locked on the hand of an elderly woman and dragged her down the platform before causing her to fall onto the tracks.
SF News New Muni Train Door Trapped Woman's Hand, Dragged And Injured Her The billion-dollar fleet of the future has doors that lock on objects and people, and have already dragged and hospitalized an elderly woman.
