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
SF News Stanley Roberts Discovers Hilarious SFMTA Typo On Dozens Of Posted Street Signs Ah, Stanley. Leave it to KRON 4's resident finger-wagger and stickler for the rules, Stanley Roberts, to figure out that a whole slew of street signs posted along Muni routes have a typo
SF News Innocent Bystander Injured During Dispute On Muni A woman is recovering from eye injuries today, after she was hit in the face during an argument between two passengers on a Muni bus traveling down Market Street. It was 4:33
SF News Clipper Policy Updated, Riders No Longer Responsible For Fares On Stolen Cards Did you know that you were responsible for charges on your Clipper card, even if you had reported it stolen? Well, until very recently, that was indeed the case. According to ABC 7,
SF News Muni Mobile App Will Add 'Rate My Ride' Feature In a move that borders on masochism, Muni's Mobile app, which launched for mobile ticketing last November, will soon prompt users to rate their Muni experience. You know, like Yelp for the SFMTA.
SF News Question: What Do Those Yellow Circles On SF Streets With Sticks Coming Out Of Them Mean? Today the Department of Little Known San Francisco Curiosities, with the aid of the SFMTA's Moving blog, is here to explain what those yellow circles in the middle of traffic lanes around San
SF News Work Starts On Long-Planned Changes To Masonic In June After eight years in the pipeline, changes first petitioned for in 2008 are finally due to arrive on the notoriously dangerous stretch of Masonic Avenue from Geary to Fell. Those are, most notably,
SF News Self-Driving Muni Buses? Officials Apply For 'Smart City' Grant In a bid to completely change the way San Franciscans get around their city, officials yesterday presented a vision of a remade citywide transportation system. According to the Chronicle, numerous transportation experts and
SF News Attn. Ride-Share Drivers Picking Up Passengers In Taxi Lanes: Stanley Roberts Will Find You As anybody knows, if you see Stanley Roberts, you've been behaving badly. The SFPD and SFMTA are cracking down on Uber and Lyft drivers trying to pick up passengers who are attempting to
SF News Man Stabbed During Early-Morning Fight On Muni A Muni patron is in the hospital this morning, following a bloody altercation on the back of a Muni bus. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak, at 1:30
SF News These Are The Streets That Will Be Closed For Bay To Breakers Happy Straight Pride, everyone! San Francisco's rowdiest annual footrace, Bay to Breakers, whose second line of revelers might number as many as 80,000, will either make or break your Sunday but you
SF News [Update] Video: Muni Operator Under Investigation Following Racist Outburst An apparently off-duty Muni employee was captured on video yesterday morning hurling racial slurs at a woman following a disagreement involving a parking spot. Posted to Facebook, the video has garnered significant amounts
SF News [Update] Parking Over Pedestrians: Business Balks At L-Taraval Safety Plan Plans to improve pedestrian safety on an injury-prone stretch of San Francisco streets were threatened this week, as Supervisor Katy Tang met with business interests claiming that the loss of a few parking
SF News Fight Over Mission Street Transit-Only Lanes Still Red-Hot The $3.8 million SFMTA project designating lanes on Mission Street bus- and taxi-only, a system used on Market Street and other thoroughfares, was enacted with the stated goal of reducing congestion and
SF News Muni Is Getting A New Fleet Of Train Cars, Starting This Year Starting this year, Muni is set to begin receiving the first of its 260 new rail cars. Some of the trains, which the Chronicle reports are made by German company Siemens and are
SF News Map: Hundreds Of Violations Committed By Tech Shuttles Per Year It's hard out there for a tech bus. Or so it would seem, with an exhaustive report from NBC Bay Area revealing that the top companies responsible for shuttling workers to and from
SF News Texan Tourist Tumbles From Cable Car A tourist's trip to San Francisco took an unexpected detour Saturday, after he fell off the Powell and Hyde cable car as it traveled down a crowded street. According to Bay City News,
SF News Can Anything Be Done To Keep Drivers From Abusing SF's Bike Lanes? You likely know that San Francisco's 300 miles of bike lane are legally reserved for bicycles and the people who ride them, and you just as likely know that operators of motorized vehicles
