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A New Muni Mobile App Launched Today, and They’re Killing Off the Old App, So Use Up Your Old Tickets

Muni’s new trip planner and digital ticketing app MuniMobile is now up, running, and available for download, and the old app’s being discontinued on January 15, so it’s time to use up any fares you bought on the old one.

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Valencia Street Nightclub Amado’s Has Closed Permanently, Owner Blames New Center Bike Lane

Eight-year-old Valencia Street bar Amado’s apparently closed for good over the weekend, with the owner blaming the street’s new center bike lane. To add insult to injury, the SFMTA just delayed its evaluation of possible changes to that bike lane.

BART and Muni Getting Huge State Bailout to the Tune of $661M, But It Comes With Conditions

After two years of talk of fiscal cliffs and the threat of service cuts, BART and the SFMTA have been thrown a lifeline in the form of state and regional transit subsidies — and the two agencies will be taking the lion's share of the money allocated to the Bay Area.

Rollover Crash In Broadway Tunnel Involved SF Parking Enforcement Vehicle

The vehicle that rolled over Wednesday morning in San Francisco's Broadway tunnel was a parking enforcement vehicle, and the SFMTA officer involved reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries.

Dozens of Speed Cameras Planned in SF for Areas With ‘Known Risks’ Like Crashes and Sideshows

Thanks to a new traffic safety state law, SF is getting 33 speed cameras, to be placed in school zones and areas with the highest crash rates.

Valencia Street Center Bike Lane Causing Confusion, Exasperated Shops Say It's Ruining Business

Add Valencia Street merchants to the chorus of people complaining about Valencia Street’s new center bike lane, as shops say it’s drastically cut their revenue, and transit advocates howl that it’s unsafe and counterintuitive.

Newsom Gives SFMTA $3 Million to Clean These Damned Streets Before the APEC Summit

With the global spotlight of the APEC conference about to shine on San Francisco in less than a month, Governor Gavin Newsom has kicked down a few million dollars in hopes of cleaning up SF streets and transit stops.

Heads Up: A Stretch of Market Street Will Be Closed for Two Weeks, Starting Saturday

For the next two weeks, several blocks of Market Street will be closed to traffic, and all vehicles will have to reroute off Market between Third and 11th streets, as a construction project begins Saturday.

SFMTA Ticketing Stolen Cars, Not Checking Whether They’re Stolen

Nearly 100 obviously stolen cars are just sitting in plain sight collecting tickets in San Francisco right now, and could be recovered today, but the SFMTA and police department are simply not sharing information with each other.

Reminder: Muni Is Shutting Down the Twin Peaks Tunnel at Nighttime for a Week, Starting Thursday

Riders of the K-Ingleside and M-Ocean View be aware, Muni is closing the Twin Peaks Tunnel every night for a week starting Thursday, and the Forest Hill and West Portal stations will close at 9 p.m. September 14-21.

The 28R-19th Avenue Muni Line Returns From Its Pandemic Slumber On August 21

Muni riders who have business along 19th Avenue have a speedy old friend coming back, as the long-suspended 28R-19th Avenue line will be reinstated for service two weeks from Monday.

SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets

Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.

Weekend Car-Free Hayes Street Extended, as City Backtracks on Plans To Cancel It

The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.

Humpday Headlines: SFMTA Gets $30M Grant From Feds for EV Stuff

Those "safe and sane" fireworks are out there for purchase again; the former CELLspace site will become the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Arts Healing Center next year; and the SFMTA just got a $30M federal grant for electric buses and charging stations.

Both the 49-Van Ness and 22-Fillmore Have Seen Their Ridership Surge Beyond Pre-Pandemic Levels

No “fiscal cliff” for these two Muni bus lines, as both the 22-Fillmore and 49-Van Ness are rocking ridership levels even higher than before the pandemic. The trouble is that it may be because like many San Franciscans, these lines don’t go downtown.

SFMTA Touts That Slow Streets Have Seen 50% Drop In Traffic Collisions, No Traffic Deaths

A new analysis of SF’s Slow Streets program shows that people are still driving too fast on many of them, but they’ve also enjoyed a nearly 50% reduction in traffic accidents, and there have been no traffic fatalities on any Slow Streets.

After Ethics Censure, Longtime City Commissioner Gwyneth Borden Resigns

A longtime commissioner on both the Planning Commission and the SFMTA board of directors, Gwyneth Borden, has decided to step down from the SFMTA board following her censure by the Ethics Commission over an undisclosed lobbying job.

SFMTA Board Member Admits to Illegally Lobbying City Hall Colleagues To Get Permits for Italian Restaurant

Vice chair of the SFMTA Board of Directors Gwyneth Borden took an undisclosed $12,500 to help a Sunset District Italian restaurant, and worked the Planning Commission she used to be a member of to help the restaurant get permits for a roof deck.

SFMTA Board Votes To Move Bike Lanes To the Middle Of Valencia Street, In Meeting Interrupted By Earthquake

A literal earthquake struck Tuesday just before the SFMTA Board of Directors approved a one-year pilot program to move the grounds of the Valencia Street bike lane into the middle of the street instead of the side.

Central Subway Ridership Already Declining, Barely Two Months After Fully Opening

We have two months of ridership data on the new Central Subway, and the second month saw a notable decline in riders — and stunningly, only about 300 people are using the Yerba Buena/Moscone Station on average each day.

Rejoice, Outer Richmond: The 1X-California Express Bus Returns This Month, Though With Very Limited Service

The 1-California’s express bus was halted by the pandemic, but returns February 21, though will only run a few times a day during weekday commute hours.

The Haight's Page Street Becomes Permanent Slow Street

The SFMTA board has signed off on Page Street becoming a permanent Slow Street, capping off nearly three years in which a pandemic experiment became popular for many residents.

Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday

Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.

SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines

The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.

SFMTA Makes 16 Slow Streets Permanent, Including the Humongously Controversial Slow Lake Street

A full 16 so-called Slow Streets became permanent after a Tuesday night SFMTA board vote, though a dozen others will lose their Slow Street status, and six hours of public comment furor swayed the board to keep the Richmond’s Lake Street a Slow Street.