SF News Mayor Wants To Reroute Caltrain Past Warriors Arena, Tear Down 280 Overpass The big news being broken by mustache twins Matier & Ross today is a potential plan, unveiled in a closed-door meeting last week at City Hall, to drastically rethink the routing of Caltrain
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Skater Pulls A Marty McFly On Corporate Shuttle Seen here totally shredding, a brave skater boy skitching on a corporate shuttle in San Francisco. And for those of you who don't know who or what a Marty McFly is: ugh, here
SF News Man Spotted Having Sex With BART Seat Convicted For Lewdness According to a state appeals court, 28-year-old transit lover Leslie Bailey was rightfully convicted of misdemeanor lewd acts when he was spotted getting busy with a BART seat last year. Bailey was cleared
SF News New BART Seats Are Too Seahawks-esque, Say Niners Fans Local fans of football and public transit are not excited about the BART cars of the future, apparently. As some have pointed out, those blue and chartreuse seats are just a little too
Arts & Entertainment BART Car Of The Future Will Tour The Bay Area This Month BART has been teasing riders with mock-ups and renderings ever since the Fleet of the Future was announced back in 2012. Now the transit agency is ready to unveil their final working model
SF News Why Are BART Cars So Hot? Because They Are Busted. "Is it really hot in here," a fellow BART rider mused aloud during a trip I took from Rockridge to San Francisco last week, "or did I just hit menopause?" While that rider's
SF News Video: BART Cop Repeatedly Tasers Passenger On the evening of January 29th, riders on a BART train stopped at the San Bruno station watched as an officer repeatedly used a stun gun on a man. Authorities claim the suspect
SF News Yikes: Ship's Anchor May Have Hit Transbay Tube BART trains temporarily stopped service Friday afternoon after a ship's anchor allegedly struck the Transbay Tube. A frightening thought, indeed. "At 8:45 a.m., a ship lost propulsion in the bay, so
SF News Cool New BART Cars To Feature Bike Racks, Chartreuse BART's new railcars (teased in mid 2013) will, ideally, make your commute from splendid downtown San Francisco to unfathomable Pleasanton less harrowing. New bikes racks and differently-colored seating are just a few features
SF News The Year In Muni Failures As we noted yesterday, it wasn't the worst year we can remember our municipal transit system having in recent memory, but it wasn't a great one! Here's our roundup of the ways in
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Bundled Up Pup The way things ought to be : a chicken in every pot and a dog in every jacket. Photo by Erik Wilson.
SF News NYT Columnist Visits S.F., Is Horrified By Our Public Transit Now that San Francisco is officially the most elite city in America, shouldn't we have a public transportation system that works? Or does our dysfunctional transit system point to an elitism at work
SF News Passengers Sick After BART Train Gets Stuck In Tunnel After experiencing some brake trouble, a BART train is now stuck in the Caldecott Tunnel (AKA the Berkeley Hills Tunnel). Around 10-12 passengers stuck on the train have suffered smoke inhalation. As of
SF News Sacramento Judge Puts High-Speed Rail On The Slow Track Yesterday in California's flood-prone capital city, a superior court judge twice slammed the brakes on plans for the state's high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles. While the two rulings handed down
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Look Down! Look Down! At the end of the day, you're another day older... and you've still got to use Muni/BART. Enjoy your weekend, folks. (Photo by Troy Holden.)
SF News [Updated] BART Strike Is OVER! UPDATE II: BART now running limited service. BART is now running limited svc.— SFBARTalert (@SFBARTalert) October 22, 2013 UPDATE I: Contrary to what they had initially told us, BART won't be running trains
SF News BART Rider Spotted Having Sex With Train Seat Acquitted Of Indecent Exposure 28-year-old Leslie Bailey, who was spotted by a BART driver masturbating and grinding his junk into a BART seat back in May, escaped indecent exposure charges last week. Although he was convicted of
SF News BART Strike: Day 4 Let's dive in, shall we: Monday morning's traffic proved exceptionally sluggish due to the continuing BART strike, now in its fourth day. Over the weekend, a couple of noted tech folks made mistakes
SF News Scenes From BART Strike Part 2: Unions' Revenge Today's BART strike prompted lots of fuss from the media, anguish on Twitter, and even a petition for a ban on BART strikes altogether. More importantly, many commuters are pissed. Rightfully so. Folks
SF News BART Strike Effective At Midnight Here we go, folks. After failing to reach an agreement, BART workers will go on strike starting at midnight. While the union and BART management could agree on heath care and pension, "the
SF News Yes, BART Trains Are Running This Morning Once again, there will be no BART strike today. Trains will run as normal. BART management and unions agree to resume talks. They will also continue to toy with the public. Until next
Arts & Entertainment Do You Think Muni Passengers Will Pay Attention To This? We don't. But we remain hopeful.
SF News N-Judah Hits Pedestrian At 9th Avenue A pedestrian was taken away in a stretcher after being struck by an outbound N-Judah train. The accident took place at 9th and Judah within the last two hours. Witness Bonnie Burton reported
SF News BART Explains Why It Doesn't Offer 24-Hour Service In light of the Bay Bridge closure, BART service that runs 24 hours remains a pipedream dancing in the heads of almost every public-transportation commuter. Why can't it be this way year-round? Well,
