SF News Coming Soon: MUNI/BART to Track Your Every Move SF Appeal reports that Muni will be replacing all existing fare gates at its underground Metro stations with TransLink-only fare gates (PDF) by fall of 2010, and it's possible Fast Passes will only
SF News BART to Run All Night on Labor Day Weekend Due to Caltrans closing the Bay Bridge in both directions over the upcoming Labor Day weekend for earthquake retrofitting, BART will be running hourly overnight service to 14 stations during the wee hours
SF News SFMTA: Metro Trains to Remain in Automatic Mode in Stations It has now been revealed that Saturday's collision at West Portal was the result of train operator Henry Gray switching to manual mode when approaching the platform -- a violation of official Muni
SF News Muni Light Rail Collision at West Portal UPDATE: SF Appeal reports that Muni Spokesperson Judson True has confirmed the total amount of injuries is 47 -- 4 critical, 23 serious, and 20 minor. Light rail service is not expected to
SF News Alleged Muni Humper Nabbed, With Help of Twitter Speaking of Muni shadiness, the alleged Muni Humper, who is apparently under the age of 18, has been arrested by SFPD, thanks to a friend of Plug1 who had also been a victim.
SF News Police Investigate "Sexual Battery Suspect" aka Muni Humper View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. SFPD have opened an investigation on the Muni Humper, now blandly coined "sexual battery suspect" in police speak, who has been plaguing the
SF News $48.3 Million in Federal Recovery Aimed for BART Carpet & More According to a report from the U.S. Department of Transportation, transportation secretary Ray LaHood announced a hefty gift for Bay Area public transportation: $48.3 Million. This chunk of change will, hopefully,
SF News Geary Center Bus Lanes Deemed the Way to Go The San Francisco County Transportation Authority issued a new report concluding that two dedicated bus lanes running down the center of Geary Boulevard (also known as bus rapid transit or BRT) would be
misc Read This: People Who Sit in the Disability Seats When I'm Standing On My Crutches While some of you might pretend not to notice the occasional elderly person giving you puppy eyes in order to snag your sweet disability seat on Muni or BART, few of us would
SF News Central Subway One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced yesterday that the feds have given the much-needed Central Subway its final environmental clearance. Praise God. The $1.3 billion plan will connect the new-ish
Arts & Entertainment Let the Valentine's Day Marketing Machine-Slash-Reasons to Feel Suicidal Because You're Single Commence Next Thursday is Valentine's Day. And the pressure is on, couples of the Bay Area, especially for those of you approaching the seven-year-itch mark. Really, this Valentine's Day could be a make-or-break kind
SF News Scientology Protest This Sunday Well, this should be exciting, hateful. This Sunday at 11 a.m. at 701 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, there will be a protest over that religious sect those zany Hollywood types know
SF News Your SF Halloween Night Closures Why aren't you hiding under the covers yet? The city doesn't want to so much as hear you breathe come tomorrow. So, start upending those floorboards and crawling into that dank attic, or
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Gross, sticky, exhausting, hot weather begins. But! Ride public transit for free tomorrow during a Spare the Air Day. [Examiner, SFMTA] -- Gang members, extortion, and THC.. [Bluoz] -- 12-year-old Jose Trujillo
SF News Muni Alert: Get Out of Town, and Stay Out Not only is Muni adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on one of the days. On Monday, Sept 3rd, a bunch of lines will be suspended
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Tzssss: Golden Gate Bridge gets branded. (They won't really have billboards on the bridge, but who would want to see tasty Pizza Rolls high above, or why Sally Field stays so ramrod
Arts & Entertainment Park in the Park Parking won't be free -- but then, it never is. The city hasn't worked out the exact prices yet, but between the rent they'll pay to the state's DMV and the fees paid
SF News Guvernator's May Budget Revision The Governor's annual May budget revision was rolled out yesterday. The document still shows a net operating deficit of $1.4 billion, but represents this as "major progress as compared to the $4.
SF News Cities in Bloom A couple good points came out of a talk by SustainLane's Warren Karlenzig at the Commonwealth club last week. He was talking about Green Economies (sustainable) versus Grey Economies (unsustainable), and pointed out
SF News We're Only Average The survey, conducted by the City Services Auditor found that while the city's grades seem to be improving from the last survey in 2005, they still aren't that great. In fact, in the
SF News At Last, a way to Devote Even More of your Free Time to Transit First up: an update on Muni's Transit Effectiveness Project, tomorrow (Wednesday) at 312 Sutter Street (at Grant), Fifth Floor, from 12:30 to 1:30. And then the very next day (Thursday), a
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
SF News Delays: Not Just For BART Anymore The other MUNI rail-line to experience trouble was the J which this morning also went down. The trouble there was not wind related, but an issue with the "pantograph." The pantograph is not
Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,
