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.
SF News BART San Jose Extension Gets $375 Million State Grant, Expects To Start Construction Next Year Another big pile of state money is kickstarting BART’s extension into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, which will come in handy, as authorities now admit the total project cost will indeed be about $9 billion.
SF News High-Speed Rail Could Finally Be Coming to Salesforce Transit Center, But Only If the Feds Kick Down Billions It might be time to dust off those dreams of the long-elusive high-speed rail coming to downtown San Francisco, but these dreams are contingent on the federal government paying for roughly half of the $6.7 billion price tag.
SF News Newsom’s Proposed Budget Slashes $2 Billion From Public Transportation, Legislators Up In Arms With California now looking at a $22.5 billion budget deficit, one area Governor Newsom wants to tighten the strings is public transit. But transit heads and legislators say they're already saddled with a fiscal cliff and service cuts.
SF News BART Extends New Year’s Eve Service Until 2 A.M., Caltrain Will Be Free That Night The New Year's Eve announcements are pouring in from Bay Area transit agencies, and Caltrain will be free from 8 p.m. onward Saturday night, while BART will run extra trains going well after 2 a.m.
SF News [Update] BART Says Hold Up, You Still Need to Wear Masks, Then Reverses Following that federal judge's ruling on Monday that abruptly ended mask mandates on planes and public transit, BART reportedly told its police not to enforce mask-wearing on Tuesday. But now, they've issued a statement similar to the SFMTA's saying masks are still required, for now.
SF News Masks Come Off on BART, Airplanes, and In Uber and Lyft Cars — But Not Muni — Following Ruling By Trump-Appointed Judge A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida issued a ruling Monday that denied the authority of the CDC to continue its federal mask mandate on planes and public transit — a mandate that was set to expire in two weeks anyway.
SF News BART Sees Major Disruption After Somone Walked Onto Tracks In Downtown SF Commuters who are newly (again) reliant on BART to get to a physical office had a bear of a morning Tuesday after an unauthorized person wandering the tracks between Embarcadero and Montgomery stations caused a major delay.
SF News Report: Central Subway Opening Likely to be Delayed Yet Again, Might Not Happen This Year Stop us if you’ve heard this before! SFMTA says the Central Subway to Chinatown is on track to open September 9, but a federal monitor, and everyone not on the SFMTA payroll, says we’re looking at December or well into next year.
SF News Van Ness BRT Will Indeed Be Running April 1, After Years as a Running Joke A weary San Francisco has learned to roll its eyes at any announcement of progress on the Van Ness bus lane construction project, but the Van Ness Improvement Project really will have its grand opening in less than a week.
SF News Ferry and BART Ridership See Immediate Spikes as Gas Prices Rise The concurrent rise in gas prices and return to physical workplaces in downtown SF and elsewhere has spurned a sudden and unexpected boom in ridership for both BART and commuter ferries.
SF News Masks Will Remain Required on Planes and Public Transit Until April 18, TSA Says The federal Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday morning that Americans will need to keep wearing masks through at least April 18 on public transit, on planes, and in transit hubs.
SF News Muni and Caltrain Free Again on New Year’s Eve, BART Hours Extended (But Still Full Price) Both Muni and Caltrain will offer free service on New Year's Eve, and while BART will not be free, they’re running an extra 1 a.m. train.
SF Politics Biden Picks First Major Fight With California, Holds Back Billions In Transit Funding Over Pension Dispute President Biden worked for months to get his $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Now he’s holding back $12 billion of that money from California over an obscure public employee pension rule.
SF News BART's 'Fleet of the Future' Cars Now Scheduled for Complete Delivery by Spring 2023 With all the pandemic-related supply-chain delays, etc., the timeline for when all the old BART cars will be replaced has been pushed out a bit.
SF News Most Muni Bus Routes Will Likely Be Restored By Spring; J-Church Riders Unhappy About Having to Transfer The SFMTA announced the next step in its process to restore Muni service to near pre-pandemic levels, with a proposed plan to restore five out of seven of the currently suspended bus routes by February or thereabouts.
SF News SFMTA Seeks Public Input on Whether to Restore Suspended Bus Routes Versus Increase Frequency on Popular Lines Muni ridership remains less than half of what it was before the pandemic, because almost nobody is commuting downtown these days. And the SFMTA is facing some tough decisions as it looks to restore more service in 2022, so it's looking for the public's input on how to proceed.
SF News BART Is Back to Almost Pre-Pandemic Service Levels Starting Today Greater weekday frequency of BART trains, and normal late-night service are back starting today, August 2, though the trains are likely to still be pretty empty for another couple of months.
SF News Limited Late-Night BART Service Returns Thursday to Saturday Through July — Here Are the Details BART is reminding everyone of the announcement the agency made two weeks ago about its extended schedule, and clarifying how the restored but limited late-night train service is going to work the next three weekends.
SF News BART is Bringing Back Late-Night Service On August 2! Four weeks earlier than scheduled, BART trains will roll 'til midnight starting August 2, and a few “limited” weekend routes will run 'til 11:30 p.m. starting in just two weeks.
SF News Pride Revelers Beware: Muni Shuts Early, Uber and Lyft Rides Are Going to Be Expensive You may want to strap on some good walking shoes if you're planning to party-hop during this late-pandemic Pride Weekend in San Francisco, because things aren't exactly back to normal with public transportation or the world of rideshares.
SF News BART Ramping Up Service Monday for Antioch, Berryessa, and Richmond Trains Though trains will still stop at 9 p.m., and Sunday trains will remain rare, most BART lines will see far more trains on their tracks, starting this Monday.
SF News We're Taking Bets On How Many Days Muni Trains Will Run Without a Fiasco The Muni Metro comes back alive on Saturday for not exactly the first time since the pandemic began, but almost. And given the SFMTA's track record, it's safe to say that the reopening of the system isn't likely to come off without a hitch.
