SF News BART Realizes Downtown Stations Are Rush-Hour Nightmares, Will Spend $400,000 Studying The Problem Since BART loves to spend money studying its problems, the transit agency is going to be spending $410,000 on a study to figure out what they can do about over-crowding in Embarcadero
SF News Getting On BART At Rush Hour A Tighter Squeeze Than Ever Have you been a sweatier, crankier, even more tightly packed sardine during your morning and evening BART commutes lately? Obviously, you're not alone, and part of the problem is BART's aging train fleet,
SF News BART Planning To Beef Up Weekend Overnight Bus Service by Eric Wuestewald Rejoice! After several failed promises and setbacks to late-night BART trains bridging the chasm between San Francisco and East Bay, the Chron is reporting that BART is now planning a
SF News Muni, BART Broken In Various Ways This Morning [Updated] You probably already know this if you are currently a) at work and extra-grumpy after an extra-slow commute, or b) late for work because of the extra-slow commute, but Muni broke in several
SF News New Market Street Changes Will Banish Even More Cars Although the city is still a long ways from achieving Gavin Newsom's dream of turning Market Street into the Champs-Elysée of the West, the S.F. Municipal Transportation Agency will start enforcing new
SF News Video: BART Rider Harasses Passengers, Gropes Woman Around 7:30 p.m. Monday night, a man headed south on BART near the Colma Station made his presence known via a boom box loud enough to be heard over the notoriously
SF News BART Fares Go Up Today For the first time since July 2012, BART fares are getting hiked a few cents, with the minimum fare within the city at $1.85 starting today. The increase is part of a
SF News Woman Allegedly Threatened With Rape On Golden Gate Transit, Bus Driver Laughs Her Off On Monday night, local writer, musician, and transit rider Meredith Yayanos took a Golden Gate Transit bus from San Francisco back to Sausalito. While no one ever boards public transit with the expectation
SF News Fatality On The Tracks At BART El Cerrito Del Norte Service resumed to normal this morning after a three-hour delay as police investigated a death on the tracks at the El Cerrito del Norte BART station. "Police would not say if the dead
SF News Teen Arrested For Setting AC Transit Passenger On Fire We get our fair share of nightmarish public transportation-related crimes around here, but this one may take the cake. Yesterday evening, a sleeping passenger was actually set on fire aboard an AC Transit
SF News How To Bring Your Bike On BART Without Annoying Everybody Else The oppressive era during which BART riders with bicycles were forced to limit their train rides to non-commute hours is finally over. The BART Board of Directors unanimously gave you permission to bring
SF News S.F. Man Throws Hammer At Striking BART Workers The attitude aimed at striking BART workers, here in the ostensibly liberal Bay Area, was nothing short of depressing. From Silicon Valley's out-of-touch attitude to angry callers on Tuesday morning's Krasny, it brought
SF News Check Out The Line For The Ferry Commute Our lucky-to-work-from-home heart goes out to those who must hop on a ferry, ride carpool, brave a bridge (or two!), or jump on a helicopter to get home tonight. While BART remains on
SF News BART Still On The Hunt For Couple Who Made That Sex Video Lest they spawn too many imitators, that lascivious couple caught on video having unapologetic sex in the back of a moving BART train is now wanted by BART police and will be subject
SF News BART Police Inserting Themselves Into Amateur Porn Investigation BART Police would like you to know they are aware of the amateur porn shot on a train recently and that they are currently looking into the matter. According to BART PD deputy
SF News NSFW Video: Lascivious Couple Filmed Having Sex On BART [Updated] As the number one transit etiquette blog in the Bay Area (note: unverified), we feel it is in our duty to bring you the latest news in public transportation behavior. In the past,
SF News Muni Pass Cost, Parking Fines Going Up Still a bargain compared to other public transit-heavy cities, the Muni Pass will go up starting June 17. The price of an adult fast pass and an adult Muni-only pass will go up
SF News Muni Turns 100 Today, Gives Out Free Rides Whoopty doo, Muni celebrates 100 years in operation today. If you can actually succeed in riding a Metro train or bus to work this a.m. despite reduced service this week and the
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Strict Regulations For Corporate Shuttles The corporate shuttle services that run Google, Facebook and other tech company employees up and down the peninsula in their WiFi-enabled coaches have started getting increased scrutiny from City Hall. The buses, which
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1980s Bus Driver Training Film Will Prepare You For Any Bay Area Transit Situation If there's anything easier to make fun of than the 1980s in general, it is definitely San Francisco's local transit system. Which is why this training video for Bay Area bus drivers, apparently
SF News Sheer Volume Of Excrement In Machinery Breaking BART Escalators What in the?! Who is defecating with such frequency on our BART station escalators that, after it oozes down and gums up the machinery, it is causing them to break? Well, according to
SF News Behold: Shiny, New Church Street Station Escalator After several months of being out of service, much to the chagrin of countless weary Muni Metro passengers, the escalator at the Church Street Muni Station near the intersection of 14th and Church
SF News Supes Propose Change In Muni's Stroller Policy As City Insider reports, Supervisors Chiu and Elsbernd are reconsidering Muni's decades-old policy regarding strollers on the bus in an effort to keep families from fleeing the city at the alarming rate we
SF News San Francisco Wins Award For Expensive Parking, Fewer Spaces Or if you want to look at it another way: San Francisco won a Sustainable Transport Award for the SFPark program's dynamic meter pricing and for replacing a citywide swath of parallel parking
SF News Check Out The Sleek New BART Cars Sharp new designs, working air-condition, and clean seats are on the order for a slew of new test BART cars (an estimated 250 of them) that will go into production this May. The
