Arts & Entertainment Video: Mapping 24 Hours Of SF Transit In Two Minutes A mapping startup called Mapzen has been working on an experimental map-visualization project called TransitFlow that provides us an animated look at 24 hours worth of transit-vehicle movement around San Francisco. Curbed points
SF News BART To Permanently Close Two Entrances To Civic Center Station That entrance to the BART/Muni station at the foot of Grove Street, in front of Burger King, is a thing of the past, and BART will also be closing the corresponding entrance
SF News Party's Over For BART Gate-Hoppers As Police Crack Down On Fare Evasion If you’re in on the dirty little secret that many BART stations (like Embarcadero) have free-swinging gate exits that you can just walk right through, your swinger party may be over. ABC
SF News Billion Dollar BART Extension To Livermore Has Officials Livid Have you ever gazed at the system map while riding BART and noticed some dotted-line ‘proposed extensions’ and said to yourself “Haha yeah right, as if I’m going to live that long!
SF News BART Fills Budget Gap By Letting Ford And United Airlines Wrap Whole Trains With Ads BART debuts train cars wrapped in ads. https://t.co/VXMWCoNeRm via @matierandross pic.twitter.com/BI8rQbP6rZ— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 2, 2017 In yet another case of a public transit entity making ends
SF News Man Threatens To Kill Everyone On BART Train, Is Allowed To Board By BART Cop A clearly unstable man who had already caught the attention of BART police early Friday morning at North Concord/Martinez BART Station was allowed by one BART officer to board a train full
SF News BART Now Says The First 'Fleet of the Future' Cars Will Be Taking Passengers In September BART is not making any promises, but via a media ride-along event on Monday, they are eager to let the public know that they are not behind schedule anymore with the rollout of
SF News Some BART Train Cameras Still Using Betamax Format BART continues to have to answer for its aging train car woes, and for its recent spate of crime, and the latest terrible tidbit comes via the Chronicle, where we learn that more
SF News Entire Muni Subway Is Closing Nights And Weekends For Four Weeks To Test New Trains The SFMTA can't just shut down one entire Muni subway for an entire month just to test five new trains. Or can it? Streetsblog brings us word of the San Francisco Municipal Transit
SF News Blown Insulator And Smoke Situation Causes Brief Scare, And Delays, At Embarcadero BART A loud bang and subsequent smoke situation filling Embarcadero Station Tuesday morning caused a fright for some commuters and inconvenienced others, but as BART explains, it was just a blown insulator that insulates
SF News BART Board Divided Over 'Racial Bias' Defense For Withholding Teen Attack Videos A debate is playing out publicly in the news media between BART directors and executives as well as between members of the media and BART over how much detail the transit system should
SF News Central Subway Is Almost A Year Behind Schedule All of San Francisco has been anxiously awaiting the completion of the $1.6 billion Central Subway, and the agonizing construction required to build it. But we're going to have to wait just
SF News Calls Grow For BART To Stop Hiding Its Crime Problem by Rebecca Cohen When the Chronicle criticized BART in April for failing to alert the public about a mob of 40-plus teens who stormed a train and robbed passengers at Coliseum Station, BART
SF News Lunchtime Links: Cable Car Collision Causes Rush-Hour Delays A 48-year-old man who was attempting to intervene in a fight at Sixth and Mission Streets was beaten with a cane for his efforts on Tuesday afternoon, and sent to the hospital with
SF News Quick Reminder: Muni Fares Just Went Up 25 Cents On Saturday, July 1, Muni fares paid in cash or on Clipper cards went up 25 cents, with cash fares now costing $2.75 something that likely led to a lot of awkward
SF News Muni Bus And Yerba Mate Truck Collide On Castro, Injuring 9 Head on muni collision at Castro and Beaver @abc7newsbayarea @breakingsfnews @kron4news @sfnewsnow @SFNewsReporter pic.twitter.com/tqn6OhgU0s— Ba-low-knee-us (@Bolognious) June 28, 2017 Upper Castro Street in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood was closed for
SF News Debris Fire In Transbay Tube Ruins Friday BART Commute I'm very sorry if you were trying to get into the city Friday evening via BART to kick of Pride weekend, or if you were just trying to get home to the East
SF News BART To Add 50-Cent Surcharge On Paper Ticket Fares Following in the footsteps of Muni, which already penalizes passengers for using cash to pay for the bus, BART's board voted this week to add a 50-cent surcharge to fares on paper tickets,
SF News BART Cars' Semi-Functional Air Conditioning Making Many Miserable During Heatwave Given that summer in SF (and to some extent Oakland and Berkeley too) is usually pretty cool, we don't tend to have the same sweaty public transit woes of our friends in, say,
SF News Muni Fare To Increase Again July 1, Caltrain Considering Fare Hike Too Seems like just yesterday when Muni instituted its new 25-cent fare hike for riders who pay cash for a single-trip transfer (in fact, it was less than six months ago!). But the beginning
SF News A BART Train Derailed At Daly City Saturday Causing Major Delays Video of @SFBART derailment pic.twitter.com/nPnI0WDc8n— Tiffany Wilson (@TWilsonTV) May 20, 2017 If you were trying to ride BART Saturday afternoon or evening you were likely impacted by a derailment just
SF News Dublin Family Suing BART For $3 Million Over Mob Attack The first precursor to a lawsuit, which could be one of several or many to be filed in the high-profile swarm robbery two weeks ago that left multiple BART passengers injured and seven
SF News Door 'Flies' Off Muni Metro Car In Motion, Falls Into Tunnel Near Church Street Door flew off the muni train in the tunnel between Castro and church just now #muni #sfmuni #sf @sfmta_muni @SFGate @SFist @Hoodline pic.twitter.com/f0WSW5uQD8— James Chang (@jameschangtweet) May 3, 2017
SF News BART Is Mad That In-Cab Video Of Fatal 2013 Accident Was Leaked, Takes PUC To Court After NBC Bay Area obtained a video two weeks ago via an anonymous source showing the in-cab footage of an untrained BART operator whose train fatally collided with two workers on the tracks
SF News BART Robberies Are Up 45 Percent; One Arrest Made So Far In Coliseum Station Swarm #BART police arriving for extra shifts tonight pic.twitter.com/mjAfRTAfHt— Lisa Amin Gulezian (@LisaAminABC7) April 30, 2017 In the wake of the wide attention that came to a swarm or "flash mob"
