SF News Clipper Card System Goes Down, Free-For-All Ensues For BART and Muni There was a widespread outage in the Clipper system Tuesday morning that was impacting commuters on BART, Muni, and Caltrain, but many were just treated to free rides.
SF Politics BART and Muni Secure $750M Loan From State Along With Other Local Transit Agencies Some proposed cuts to transit funding are off the table, and Bay Area transit agencies including, primarily, BART and Muni, will be receiving a lifeline in the form of an interest-free loan from the state in the upcoming budget.
SF News Sunday Links: Jeffries, Booker Hold Sit-In At Capitol To Protest GOP Budget Plan A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
SF News Muni Forever Campaign Provides Action Plan For Voicing Feedback On Service Cuts By April 1 About 250 people showed up to last week’s Muni rally, and while the board made a preliminary vote in favor of service cuts, the public's involvement has motivated Muni to reduce the severity of proposed cuts while also gaining support from local politicians.
SF News Did You Know: The Muni Mobile App Sells Day Passes For The Price Of A Round-Trip Ticket The best part about the Muni Mobile app is that it has day passes available for $5.50, which hasn’t been publicized much except on SFMTA’s website.
SF Politics Scott Wiener At It Again With a Bill to Upzone Housing Density Near Transit Hubs After his multiple previous attempts to throw out zoning restrictions in areas near transit hubs have failed, state Senator Scott Wiener has a new measure to streamline larger housing projects near a more limited number of those hubs.
SF News Transit Groups To Rally Against Muni Service Cuts At City Hall On Tuesday Local community groups will be rallying in front of City Hall next Tuesday morning prior to SFMTA’s board meeting in the afternoon when the board will make its final decision on Muni service cuts.
Arts & Entertainment Two Transit Nerds Embark on Nine-County Odyssey to Ride All 24 Clipper Card Transit Services In 24 Hours These two youngsters with a big appetite for Bay Area public transit took on the task of seeing if they could ride all 24 Clipper Card-using transit agencies within a 24-hour period, and actually pulled it off by a hair.
SF News BART Says 'Fiscal Cliff' Is Coming Next Year, and They Obviously Won't See More Federal Funding A day after BART was touting rising ridership numbers and a drop in crime, the transit agency is warning the public that its much discussed "fiscal cliff" is set to arrive in 2026, absent new funding sources.
SF News Still Facing Major Budget Deficit, BART Raises Fares 5.5% Starting In January BART announced a fare hike starting January 1 which will raise the average train fare about 25 cents, in order to partly address looming budget deficits in the coming fiscal years.
SF News Could Muni Eliminate the Cable Cars? That’s on the Table, as the Agency Faces a Possible $320 Million Deficit Dark days loom for Muni after the failure of Prop L, an incoming Trump presidency, and a deficit as high as $322 million, so there’s talk of eliminating the cable cars, or axing some lesser-used bus lines outright.
SF News Three-Day Work Weeks Are Hammering BART Financially, But Muni Just Had Its Highest-Ridership Month In Four Years The BART system continues its ridership dregs due to remote work and persistent three-day work weeks, and it may come begging for a tax increase, but Muni just scored its highest monthly ridership numbers since before the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get In and Out of Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands For those just attending Outside Lands this year for the first time, and those who haven't been to the festival for a few years, we give you this primer on your transportation options to get in and out of Golden Gate Park without too much fuss.
SF News Muni to Update Train Control System From Floppy-Disk Era... Over the Next Ten Years Things don't happen fast when it comes to San Francisco's public transit systems. And in the case of Muni, that means a train-control apparatus that was installed in 1998 — and sounds like it might have been almost outdated even then — is finally going to get an update. But it will take a decade.
SF News Muni Ridership Reached 71% of Pre-Pandemic Levels In 2023, With Some Bus Routes More Crowded Than In 2019 Ridership on Muni buses and trains was up to 86% of pre-pandemic levels on weekends last year, and up to 68% on weekdays, but revenue across the SFMTA remains down — and are these ridership numbers even real if people don't pay?
SF News BART Paper Tickets Are Going Away — For Real This Time — On November 30 It's the second time in three years that we've been told to "say goodbye" to paper tickets on the BART system. But after re-introducing them last year, the paper tickets are really going away this time.
SF News Finally! Clipper Card System Will Let You Just Scan Debit and Credit Cards Directly, Starting Next Year You’ll be able to just swipe your debit or credit card to ride BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems, eliminating the need for a Clipper Card, in a major upgrade scheduled for summer 2024.
SF News BART’s Revamped Schedule to Start Monday, Promising Shorter Waits and Shorter Trains The transit agency is rolling out long-awaited service changes to enhance rider experiences starting September 11 — here's what's new.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get In and Out of Outside Lands By Public Transit or Bike We've tried to get the word out every year, and we'll try again: Getting into and out the far reaches of Golden Gate Park on Outside Lands weekend is not something you should be trying to do by car. You will regret it.
SF News Wiener Proposes $1.50 Bridge Toll Hike To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ With Muni at risk of slashing 20 lines and BART threatening to eliminate weekend service, state Senator Scott Wiener hopes to eliminate their deficits with a $1.50 toll increase on seven Bay Area bridges.
SF News Both the 49-Van Ness and 22-Fillmore Have Seen Their Ridership Surge Beyond Pre-Pandemic Levels No “fiscal cliff” for these two Muni bus lines, as both the 22-Fillmore and 49-Van Ness are rocking ridership levels even higher than before the pandemic. The trouble is that it may be because like many San Franciscans, these lines don’t go downtown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Legislature Comes Up With $1.1B Transit Bailout First Lady Jill Biden will be in SF on Tuesday; the CA Legislature has come up with $1.1B in the new budget to bail out transit agencies; and there is finally some movement on the burned-out building at 3300 Mission Street.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Pistol-Whipping and Shooting On BART Train A suspect is in custody for the March 16 pistol-whipping incident onboard a BART train that resulted in a shot being fired in the train car.
SF News Plans For That Second Transbay Tube May Be Getting Shelved Over High Cost, Low Ridership The latest grand plan for a second Transbay Tube would have cost at least $29 billion and wouldn’t have been completed until around 2040, and now regional transit planners are backing off the idea of building that new tube.
SF News BART Beefing Up Police Presence In Hopes It Will Bring Riders Back BART Police say “We are going to saturate every train and hit every train in Oakland and San Francisco” as the BART board of directors is on the verge of agreeing to more than double the presence of officers.
