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.
SF News Muni Underground Returns May 15 With Full Service on K and N Lines Despite previous reports that we wouldn't see Muni's K, L, or M lines running in light-rail tunnels until early next year, the SFMTA has surprised us today with better-than-expected news — as opposed to the usual worse-than-expected updates they've become known for.
SF News Halleloo: BART and Muni Riders Will Soon Be Able to Pay Fares With Mobile Phones Two years behind New York's transit system — a.k.a. right on schedule — Clipper cards are going mobile, enabling riders to stop fumbling with wallets at BART and Muni stations and pay using Apple Pay or Google Pay on their mobile phones.
SF News Muni Now Saying N-Judah and Other Metro Lines Won't Return Until May or Later As of mid-January, the SFMTA was suggesting that the N-Judah might finally be returning to service this month or next. But no. Now it's looking like May.
SF News Second Transbay Tube Takes Another Step Toward Reality, With a Goal of Completion in 2040 Wednesday marked the unveiling of a new multiyear planning process by BART and regional rail providers, a key component of which will be a second Bay crossing for BART between San Francisco and Oakland.
SF News Muni Plans Restart of Above-Ground Train Service in Two Weeks; Underground Service Delayed Until February or Later The SFMTA is taking its first baby steps toward reopening the Muni Metro, and those will begin with the December 19 restart of the J-Church line.
SF News Muni Fare Inspectors Return Next Month With New Polo Shirts The SFMTA has given everyone a reprieve from fare-inspection sweeps since early in the pandemic. But in a few weeks, the free ride (for those who've been taking advantage) comes to an end.
SF News Scott Wiener's Bill to Speed Up Transit, Bike, and Pedestrian Projects Passes State Legislature A bill to change the way that public transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects are handled vis a vis the state's environmental impact laws has passed the legislature. And State Senator Scott Wiener, the sponsor of the bill, hopes it will aid in California's economic recovery after the pandemic.
SF News Once Again, BART's Twitter Persona Gets Real, But This Time About Farts It's a been a minute since we had the pleasure of BART's Twitter account coming alive with some honest and/or sassy commentary. But whoever's in charge over there this summer, kudos.
SF News SFMTA Director Speaks to New York Times About Agency's Dire Finances The SFMTA is on course to lose more than a half billion dollars in revenue over the next four years, and director Jeffrey Tumlin warns we’re seeing a “transit death spiral.”
SF News BART Begins Publishing Load Charts To Help Riders Avoid Crowded Trains As part of its process to encourage people to start using BART to commute around the Bay again, the transit agency is now publishing load charts for all trains, showing which are the least and most crowded.
SF News Muni Announces Major Light-Rail Changes As It Makes Plan To Restart Train Service In August The SFMTA is going to be significantly altering how trains run through the Muni Metro tunnels from West Portal through downtown San Francisco when the system reopens for business in August.
SF News BART Service to North San Jose Begins Saturday, Several Decades and $2.3 Billion Later True to form, BART has finally cleared miles of red tape and hurdled past legions of complications to extend train service to San Jose for the first time in the middle of a pandemic when South Bay commuters need it least. But they did it, dammit!
SF News BART's 15-Point 'Welcome Back' Plan Includes Personal Hand Straps, Electrostatic Fog Treatments As BART prepares for some of its pre-pandemic ridership to return, agency management today unveiled a 15-point plan to keep riders as safe and as socially distanced as possible on a public transit system.
SF News SF to ‘Close’ Car Traffic on Several Streets to Promote Social Distancing The city adopts Oakland-style car bans on streets, but the number of streets closing is less than overwhelming, and it appears the program will employ honor system enforcement.
SF News New BART General Manager Goes on ‘Listening Tour,’ Encounters What We See Every Day New BART GM Robert Powers is going station to station every Wednesday, allowing you the opportunity to give him heck in person.
SF News A Decade On, 'Better Market Street' Plan Gets Final Approval, Vehicle Ban Made Permanent On Tuesday, with broad support from a coalition of advocacy groups, a plan was finally made official and final by the SFMTA to ban private vehicles from the lower half of Market Street and undertake a variety of street improvements over the next six years.
SF News New Muni Trains To Start Service Before End Of The Year, Finally After cutting off night and weekend service for a month this summer in order to complete testing in the Muni underground system, the SFMTA has announced that they're expecting to put
SF News SFMTA Cracks Down (Sort Of) On Chariot, Other Private Buses It’s been a bumpy ride for the tech-loving private shuttle service Chariot, which arrived three years ago to make “transportation better only for some people” in the words of Muni Diaries.
Arts & Entertainment Short Film Features BART Station Agent Who Happily Greets Thousands Daily Agent of Connection from Ivan Cash on Vimeo. Laughing Squid spotted this very well-made short film which focuses on BART agent William Cromartie, who says he personally greets 4,000 commuters every
