SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News A Brief History Of How San Francisco Ended Up With Electric Trolly Buses Long before the environmental movement took off or anyone understood a thing about carbon emissions, a full 81 years ago, SF got its first emission-free electric trolly bus powered by overhead wires. As
SF News Underground Muni Riders To Finally Be Blessed With Cell Phone Service As long as there have been cell phones, riders of Muni's light rail system have been afflicted with the scourge of no bars (now dots, I guess) any time the vehicles plunged beneath
SF News Muni Still Isn't Sure How To Pay For Those Fancy New Trains They Keep Talking About We've been talking about Muni's glorious new light rail fleet for a while — in fact, it was over two years ago that we ran the numbers on the (at the time) $1.2
SF News Due To Faulty Counters, Muni Ridership Numbers Have Been Wrong For At Least Two Years According to automatic passenger counters, between fiscal years 2014 and 2015 ridership declined on Muni motor coaches by by 3.4 percent and on trolley coaches by 7.3 percent. Wait, what? Muni
SF News Check Out The New Muni Trains That Will Begin Showing Up Next Year San Francisco is set to replace all of its Muni train cars by the far-off year of 2028, but the first of the shiny new Siemens light-rail vehicles will begin entering service as
SF News Allegedly Assaulted Muni Driver Prompts Protest Over Muni Response, New Ad Campaign The story of the female Muni bus driver who claimed she was assaulted last weekend by a male driver in a road-rage incident in SoMa has grown more complicated, and the SFMTA's response
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Has Muni Behavior Gotten Better, Or Worse? Dear Rain, Has behavior on Muni (people not moving to the back, criminals, backpack wear) changed over the years? Some people claim that it's gotten worse with the most recent flood of new
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
