SF News Study: Ride-Hail Carpooling Could Cut Traffic By 75 Percent Traffic around the Bay Area has jumped 70 percent since 2010, with San Francisco reported as having the third worst traffic in the country. With those frustrating figures in mind, a new study
SF News Free Muni, Late BART, And Free Towing All On The Table This New Year's Eve People celebrating New Year's Eve in San Francisco have even fewer excuses than usual to drive drunk Saturday, as bountiful options are available to shuttle partiers safely back home. According to the San
SF News *Cough Cough* Sick Muni Drivers Absenteeism Costs City $42 Million Per Year A recent report on San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency conducted by the Controller's Office points to the $42 million cost of absenteeism at the agency and cites a culture of leave-taking and lack
SF News Report: Cycling Up Across San Francisco Daily trips by bicycle are up across San Francisco this year, with a new SFMTA report putting the increase at 8 percent over last year. Specifically, this refers to weekday rides — suggesting that
SF News Holidays In SF Means Parking Given, Other Parking Taken Away Update 12/23: Basically everything I wrote in this post regarding Muni's parking enforcement over the holidays was wrong. I'm sorry about that — I took the information exactly as it appeared on Muni's
SF News Woman Trapped Under Muni Bus In Critical Condition 🚨⚠️️: @fresconews is #onthescene of an incident involving a @sfmta_muni bus. Crime tape is up. Buses are impacted near Market & 3rd. pic.twitter.com/qixYN5F0TB— Kyle Chak (@KyleSChak) December 20, 2016 Market
SF News SFMTA Blames Uber And Lyft For San Francisco's Traffic Woes San Francisco has the third worst traffic in the country, and the Bay Area at large has seen a 70 percent increase over the past six years. As with many things in life,
SF News Why Your Muni Fare Will Be Going Up To $2.50 In January (If You're Paying In Cash) It behooves us to remind you that effective January 1, 2017, San Francisco Muni riders who pay their fare in cash will face a 25-cent fare increase. As was proposed in April, riders
SF News Should Muni Just Ignore People Who Sneak On Without Paying? Proof of fare? Who cares. An argument Wired is making in a piece using Muni data as evidence says that ignoring fare evaders on public transit is a virtue. Frankly, it's a virtue
SF News North Face Tells Customers Not To Wander Around Muni Tunnels In Video Showing Customer Doing Just That Do as I say, not as I do. That seems to be the message from Alameda-based apparel company North Face, which released a series of ads under the moniker "perspective hunting" featuring a
SF News Community Members Push Closing Golden Gate Park To Most Cars With the June death of 41-year-old Heather Miller likely on the minds of some, community members gathered Saturday at Golden Gate Park’s County Fair Building to propose different approaches the city of
SF News Muni Hacker Hacked, Turns Out He's Extorted Ransoms From Multiple US Companies While questions persist about how much and what kind of data was compromised in the hack of some 2,000 SFMTA computers last weekend, a network security researcher says that he successfully hacked
SF News [Update] Muni Hacked For 100 Bitcoin, Questions Arise About What Data Was Compromised The hacker responsible for all those free Muni rides over the weekend is asking for 100 bitcoin (about $73,000) in exchange for unlocking the affected Muni computers, as the Examiner found out
SF News SFMTA Issues Final Report On Proposed Tech-Shuttle Hubs Ahead of a November 15 SFMTA Board of Directors meeting to discuss the predicted effects of reducing the number of tech-shuttles stops across the city and changing the existing model to that of
SF News Fake Bus Facts Declare Muni Is 'Gluten Free' And More A photo posted by Peter Andrews (@peter_wine) on Nov 2, 2016 at 10:36pm PDT Gluten is probably the least of Muni's worries, but someone with a printer and a sense of
SF News Six Complain Of Injuries (Maybe?) After Driver Strikes Muni Bus Six people complained of minor injuries Thursday afternoon, after the driver of an SUV struck a Muni bus traveling through the Mission District. According to San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Baxter, the
SF News SFMTA Staffer Nabs Market Street Stabbing Suspect A passing employee of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency helped detain a violently aggressive man Tuesday, following a bizarre midday stabbing on Market Street. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a
SF News New Marina Parking Restrictions Targeting Car-Dwellers Upset Homeless Activists Another in a long line of SFMTA measures restricting large vehicles from parking overnight on certain San Francisco streets was approved on Tuesday, this time focusing on the Marina. The Examiner reports that
SF News SFMTA Says Street Safety Improvements Are Actually Dangerous, Pulls Vigilante Crosswalk Posts Thank you @SFMTrA ! Westbound traffic visibly slower when crossing with kids today, and more walkers are using the intersection already. pic.twitter.com/DCULFK2qiV— Hum of the city (@humofthecity) October 13, 2016 Saying
SF News Map: San Franciscans Want New Subway Lines Pretty Much Everywhere San Francisco has some decent public transit, but huge chunks of the city are conspicuously under-served. Right now, for example, The Examiner tells us that only 25 percent of jobs are within walking
SF News Protesters Urge SFMTA Not To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak As she was in life, Rose Pak is controversial even in death. The local political power-broker passed away in September at the age of 68, and was quickly mourned and honored by the
SF News Map: SFMTrA Safety Vigilantes Install More Bike-Lane Posts Under The Cover Of Night @SFMTrA spotted! pic.twitter.com/SwwmS9ViXn— RadioChert (@ChertRadio) October 12, 2016 As promised, the anonymous individuals behind the vigilante pedestrian and bicycle safety group SFMTrA installed more bike-lane safety posts around the city
SF News Bike Lane Posts Installed By Safety Vigilantes Can Stay, Says SFMTA In news that will come as a surprise to many, officials with the SFMTA will not order the immediate removal of the semi-permanent safety posts installed by the safety activist group SFMTrA. Instead,
SF News Computer Glitch Blamed In Muni Crash, Other Braking Problems May Be Widespread 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 On Monday morning a 3-Jackson
SF News Tired Of Official Inaction, Safety Vigilantes Install Bike Lane Safety Posts A group of anonymous pedestrian and cycling safety advocates have upped their game in a challenge to city officials to do more, now, to make San Francisco streets safer. San Francisco Metropolitan Transformation
