SF News SFMTA Approves Sunday Double-Parking Pilot Program It seems that last week's prediction was correct, as the SFMTA Board of Directors today approved the creation of a pilot program to allow Sunday double-parking on Dolores Street. Jerold Chinn, the transportation
SF News Supervisor Scott Wiener Calls Out SFMTA, SFPD For Ignoring Double-Parkers "Are Tickets for Double Parking A Real Thing?" we asked back in 2013, with nearly 80 percent of the respondents to our survey answering "no." And it appears that San Francisco Supervisor/District
SF News Muni Driver Allegedly Beaten By Angry Motorist Driving for Muni can be a stressful gig. With all the rider beatings, collisions, and allegations of discrimination, the brown-uniform-sporting employees have a lot to deal with even before it comes to matters
SF News SFMTA 'Leans Toward' Formalizing Illegal Sunday Double-Parking For Churchgoers The SFMTA is set to decide on Tuesday whether or not to formalize the currently illegal practice of churchgoers every Sunday turning the Mission's Dolores Street into a parking lot. The Examiner reports
SF News Video: Disgruntled Muni Patron Claims Drivers Won't Stop For People Of Color A Muni patron who allegedly threatened to stab a streetcar operator after multiple buses passed him was detained by police on Market Street, after they learned that the rider had an outstanding warrant
SF News SFMTA Proposes Revoking Some Mission Street Safety Improvements Following Merchant Complaints The months-long effort from a vocal contingent of merchants and Supervisor David Campos to undo the recent safety and Muni-focused Mission Street changes has borne fruit, as SFMTA officials yesterday announced that they
SF News Guerrilla Traffic Safety Warriors Take Reforms Into Their Own Hands After Cyclist Deaths In response to deaths like those of 41-year-old Heather Miller and 26-year-old Kate Slattery, two cyclists killed on the same night in June in separate hit-and-run incidents, as well as 24 others this
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Returns To Outside Lands To Shame Cars Stopping In Bus Zones KRON 4's Stanley Roberts can't resist getting up to his same tricks every time we have a big event or festival in San Francisco, and since last year's Outside Lands that's meant shaming
SF News Your Muni Fast Pass Will Cost More Next Month If you're someone who uses a monthly pass to ride Muni, you'll be digging just a little deeper to pay for it next month. Not a lot deeper, but deeper, nonetheless. The increase,
SF News Perma-Locked Muni Seats Are Free To Sit In At Last For more than two years, some seats on Muni buses have been perpetually in the up position, locked and unusable. The move was made to limit liability after the company that builds Muni
SF News These Are The Streets That Will Be Closed For Sunday's Marathon This Sunday is the 39th San Francisco Marathon, and while you may be lying in bed working off a hangover, according to race organizers over 26,000 runners will be hitting the city
Arts & Entertainment Where To Catch All The Most Muni-Accessible Pokémon Spotted a Pokémon waiting for a Muni Bus this morning in San Francisco. Man this Pokémon Go thing is out of control. pic.twitter.com/vU2e98XdDH— Yiying Lu (@YiyingLu) July 12, 2016 For
SF News SF To Pay $3.25 Million To Family Of Elderly Cyclist Crushed By Muni Bus It was 8:40 a.m. on Friday October 18, 2013, when 78-year-old cyclist Cheng Jin Lai was crushed by a 27-Bryant Muni bus as it turned from 11th Street onto Bryant Street.
SF News Muni Bus Driver Strikes 10-Year-Old Boy On Market Street A 10-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Sunday afternoon, after he allegedly ran in front of a Muni bus and was struck. The collision occurred at 5:01 yesterday afternoon, on Market
SF News Expect Confusion As Twin Peaks Partial Car Ban Goes Into Effect Today A spot loved by locals and tourist alike underwent some changes today, as sections of the road surrounding Twin Peaks were made the exclusive domain of cyclists and pedestrians. The SFMTA plan to
SF News Here's How People Responded When SFMTA Asked Where To Put Tech-Shuttle 'Hubs' As San Francisco officials consider moving tech-shuttle stops away from their current 125 assigned locations and into clustered "hubs," the SFMTA has begun the complicated task of determining just where, exactly, such hubs
SF News Video: Man On Motorcycle Attacks Cyclist While In Bike Lane Motorcyclist assaulted me for enforcing the Golden Gate Ave bike lane. pic.twitter.com/YYzToqtbz4— Randall Dietel (@R27D) June 28, 2016 Cars and motorcycles using bike lanes to cut around slow-moving traffic is
SF News Transit Advocates Trade Barbs As SFPD Seeks Suspect In Cyclist Slaying As city organizations trade barbs over policies that they say would have prevented the hit-and-run deaths of two cyclists Wednesday, the San Francisco Police Department continues to search for the suspect behind one
SF News Mission Street Transit-Only Lane Meeting Devolves Into Shouting Match Originally 50 chairs set out, now doubled.Standing room only, 150+ @sfmta_muni meeting at Mission Cultural Ctr. pic.twitter.com/JEKj5uhdOZ— LolaLolaLola (@Lola_Casanova) June 21, 2016 As is becoming the norm
SF News Not So Smart: SF Loses $50M 'Smart City' Grant To Ohio It appears that the streets of San Francisco will remain dumb, at least for a while longer. The Examiner reports that SFMTA officials were unsuccessful in their bid to obtain a $50 million
SF News Financial Analyst Accused Of DUI That Killed Cable Car Operator Gets Probation BREAKING:#SF cable car operator injured in June crash dieshttps://t.co/rcBvLqGT7k#Muni #Transit pic.twitter.com/iuwbRSHIEV— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) January 12, 2016 A motorcyclist who was arrested after he allegedly
SF News Shills From Private Shuttle Service Chariot Are Now Proselytizing At Muni Stops Have you heard the good word? Chariot, the San Francisco network of shuttle buses that falls somewhere between the jitneys of yesteryear and the tech commuter buses of today, wants to make certain
SF News Despite Safety Gains, Effort To Remove Mission Transit Lane Continues Despite evidence that the Mission Street transit-only lanes have drastically reduced collisions, and the dearth of evidence that they have negatively impacted merchants, Supervisor David Campos and SFMTA's Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin
SF News More Facebook Employees Commuting By Car And Some Blame Tech Shuttle Regulations With the tech shuttle pilot program a permanent fixture on San Francisco streets since February of this year, and with a corresponding decrease in protests, we might expect the number of tech employees
SF News In SF Bid For $50M Federal 'Smart City' Grant, Private Companies Pledge $150M More In San Francisco's effort to become the recipient of a US Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge Grant, local private companies and technology firms are stepping up to the plate, pledging $150 million
