SF News That Half-Cent Sales Tax To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Will Indeed Be on the November 2026 Ballot Would you pay a half-cent extra in sales tax so BART and Muni don’t have to slash their service? That choice will be before you in November 2026, as a ballot measure was just approved to help Bay Area transit avoid a ‘fiscal cliff.’
SF News Saturday Links: State Bill Would Relax Height Limits Within Half-Mile of Transit Hubs About 100 people gathered to protest the detainment of a 73-year-old grandmother Friday night; SFUSD said it will fill its vacant school crossing guard roles by the end of the year; and a new bill would allow for apartment buildings up to nine stories adjacent to transit stations.
SF News Transit Nut Rides From SF to LA Only on Public Transportation, It Costs Him Just $61 (But Takes Two Whole Days) An ambitious transit enthusiast just rode all the way from San Francisco (actually Oakland) to Los Angeles, a trek that cost a mere $61, but took two full days to pull off, and required an overnight hotel stay.
SF News Three-Day Work Weeks Are Hammering BART Financially, But Muni Just Had Its Highest-Ridership Month In Four Years The BART system continues its ridership dregs due to remote work and persistent three-day work weeks, and it may come begging for a tax increase, but Muni just scored its highest monthly ridership numbers since before the pandemic.
SF News Finally! Clipper Card System Will Let You Just Scan Debit and Credit Cards Directly, Starting Next Year You’ll be able to just swipe your debit or credit card to ride BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems, eliminating the need for a Clipper Card, in a major upgrade scheduled for summer 2024.
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 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 Check ‘Em Out! We Have Our First Renderings of the Second Transbay Tube A longtime BART fan fantasy is coming to life, as a second Transbay Tube gets its first proposed public renderings, though there are a couple proposals, and it probably won’t be operating until 2040 at the earliest.
SF News People, There Is a $1 Shuttle That Goes Between Downtown SF and MacArthur BART The cheapest deal in Bay Area public transit takes you ten miles for a measly dollar, as a little-known Caltrans shuttle offers $1 dollar trips between Pier 30 and MacArthur BART, and it’s been quietly running for almost 45 years.
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 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 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 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 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 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 [Update] BART Service Between Oakland And SF Restored As System Recovers From Downed Power Line Madness at West Oakland #bart station. Hundreds of pissed off riders. #CaseOfTheMondays pic.twitter.com/wBc48JlDy6— Eman (@Flipsican) March 27, 2017 An ongoing BART service interruption between San Francisco and the East Bay
SF News Wildly Inaccurate Muni Wait Time Predictions Will Continue For Weeks In Major Glitch Predicted arrival times on NextMuni signs at transit stops and on NextMuni/NextBus apps are particularly daunting this week — 85 minutes for the N Judah? — and wildly, totally wrong. To blame is a
SF News After Weeks-Long Electrical Problem, BART Nearing Regular Service Following a mysterious voltage spike at the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line that's bedeviled BART since March 16th, the regional transit system has been running a bus bridge between North Concord
SF News Man Behind BART's Honest Tweets: 'Public Transit Has Always Been About Politics' Until last week, BART's Twitter account has consisted mostly of a series of apologies in reply to tweets from riders. Exhibit A: But like much of BART's strategy and infrastructure, saying "sorry" wasn't
SF News Supervisor Wiener Really Set On Subway Construction, Introduces 'Master Plan' Legislation Supervisor Scott Wiener prides himself on having his finger to the pulse of San Francisco public transit. But that pulse, he notes, can sometimes be faint. We aren't doing enough, Wiener says, to
SF News BART Will Maybe Solve Terrible Screeching Sound In Transbay Tube Once And For All During the weekend closure of the Transbay Tube earlier this month, BART replaced some of the tracks in the tube itself that they say are responsible for the terrible screeching sound that we
