SF News Muni Thinks Most Riders Pay Their Fares It's true that a lot of people around SF are good with the honor system and dutifully tag their Clipper cards when boarding Muni buses and light-rail trains. But do
SF News BART Directors Propose Sanctuary In Transit Policy In an Oakland meeting of the BART Board yesterday, two BART directors took the stance that the regional transit system should investigate and perhaps adopt a "Sanctuary in Transit Policy." That
SF News BART Janitor Who Makes $271K A Year Spends Hours At A Time In A Storage Closet Quick thought experiment: You're a janitor at a BART station, and not just any BART station, but the Powell Street BART station, a uniquely gross nexus of sadness and squalor. How
SF News Delays And Crowds Cause Big Hit To BART Rider Satisfaction In New Survey In BART's biennial survey of its regular riders, complaints are up about noise and lack of places to sit, and unsurprisingly given BART's delay- and breakdown-plagued 2016, overall
SF News BART Says, Actually, Standing On The Right And Passing On The Left Causes Escalators To Break While it's part of Bay Area gospel and a piece of established etiquette that longtime residents try to drill into the minds of all newcomers to stick to the right side
SF News Friday The 13th Will Mark The Arrival Of Muni's First New 'Fleet Of The Future' Train The first of 64 brand new Muni Metro light-rail trains will arrive in San Francisco on Friday, January 13th. It's not the most auspicious date for a transit system known
SF News BART's Ancient Computer Systems Are Holding Up Opening Of New Warm Springs/South Fremont Station We were led to believe by some optimists at BART that the long-awaited Warm Springs extension, which takes BART's Fremont line 5.4 miles further south toward San Jose, was
SF News The BART Connection To SFO Is Losing Riders Fast As Uber/Lyft Airport Rides Skyrocket In some not so surprising news, ever since Uber and Lyft have been given free rein to pick up and drop off passengers at SFO, ridership on BART's SFO line has
SF News BART Bond Passes, $3.5 Billion To Go Toward Infrastructure We're going to be wiping away tears and vomit and picking up pieces for a while now, but in the good news column, at least for BART, they got their bond
SF News People Lose 40 Pounds Worth Of Keys Every Month On BART, And Other Fun Facts You may think it's the end of the world if you lose your cellphone or wallet on BART, but you may not realize that they actually have a functioning Lost and
SF News Check Out A Brand New BART Car, In Person, In The East Bay This Weekend Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8 — SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 BART's "fleet of the future" is coming, but with full deployment of the
SF News BART Experiencing Systemwide Delays Due To Equipment Problems In Daly City And Richmond Blame it on the rain, maybe, but a power outage and subsequent equipment problem between Colma and Daly City stations is causing systemwide delays on the BART system. BART spokesperson Alicia Trost explains
SF News Muni Bus Collides With Parked Truck, Catches Fire, Injuries Reported Several people injured when #Muni bus plows into parked truck in Pacific Heights neighborhood of SF , @Artguy1 https://t.co/gdGDUzh1kU — Bill Hutchinson (@bill_hutchinson) October 3, 2016 A 3-Jackson bus plowed
SF News As Bus Rapid Transit Construction Begins, Prepare For Van Ness To Become A Daily Nightmare Construction kicks off this month on the long-awaited, much-debated Van Ness BRT (bus rapid transit) project, in which the heavily trafficked boulevard is going to lose the two center lanes of
SF News BART To Central Valley? Advocates Score $2.2 Million To Lay Out Controversial Plan BART and you're there — in Central Valley? Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty likes the sound of that, as he's leading the charge to extend the reach of the Bay
SF News A Brief History Of How San Francisco Ended Up With Electric Trolly Buses Long before the environmental movement took off or anyone understood a thing about carbon emissions, a full 81 years ago, SF got its first emission-free electric trolly bus powered by overhead wires.
SF News Fatality Involving Train Shut Down 16th Street BART Station Friday Night A man was struck and killed by a BART train Friday evening, leading to some service delays and a two-hour shutdown of 16th Street Station. As Mission Local reports, the incident happened
SF News BART Tests 'Enzyme Misting System' To Neutralize Persistent Elevator Pee Stank Daily BART riders such as Sunday Parker, who rely on the system's spotty, sometimes unpleasant elevator service had good news last month: The transit agency announced plans to coat elevator floors
Arts & Entertainment Self-Appointed BART 'Artist-In-Residence' Installs Subway Swings, Hopscotch Installing swings in public spaces like on Billy Goat Hill is a time-honored San Francisco pastime. Ironically, the emblem for the SF Rec and Parks Department is a child on just such
SF News BART Now Paying Passengers To Avoid Morning Rush-Hour Commute In a bid to ease congestion during commute hours, BART officials today announced the launching of a new rider program called "BART Perks." The idea, officials explain in a press release,
SF News Video: Pantless Man Smokes Meth (Or Crack) On BART SOME HOMELESS GUY SMOKIN CRACK ON BART pic.twitter.com/G2Bnh3MzGs — LIKNEM (@SOMESTEEZ) August 28, 2016 A possibly homeless man without shoes, wearing what appears to be a towel draped over his legs
SF News Due To Faulty Counters, Muni Ridership Numbers Have Been Wrong For At Least Two Years According to automatic passenger counters, between fiscal years 2014 and 2015 ridership declined on Muni motor coaches by by 3.4 percent and on trolley coaches by 7.3 percent. Wait, what? Muni
SF News There's Been An Uptick In Cellphone Snatchings On BART It's uncertain if the same individual or group of individuals can be blamed, but there's been a spate of cellphone thefts on BART the last two weeks, and BART
SF News BART Spends $340K To Pee-Proof Elevators For many people, BART elevators are something to be avoided — even if they do happen to be working. For others, they're a necessary means of accessing the public transit that we
SF News East Bay BART Delays To Start Today And Last Three Weeks Adding another repair project to the list, BART officials just announced new work in the East Bay that will result in ongoing delays for passengers. The repairs, which start today and involve replacing
