SF News Supervisors At Odds Over Penalizing Muni Riders Paying Cash A proposed SFMTA budget that would penalize people who use cash to purchase Muni tickets with a 25-cent surcharge has run into trouble, with two supervisors coming out in opposition, and one specifically
SF News Muni Proposes Tiered Pricing System That Penalizes Cash With 25-Cent Surcharge Yesterday evening the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency adopted a new budget that, if approved by the Board of Supervisors, will penalize commuters who purchase tickets the old fashioned way with good ol'
SF News Muni's Last Two Big Orange LRV Cars Could Be Yours, For Free! You could own Muni's two remaining Boeing-Vertol light rail vehicles, aka the "big orange trains," for absolutely no charge, a spokesperson says. All you need is a way to haul them off SFMTA
SF News 'Traumatic Brain Injury' For Pedestrian Struck By Muni In Mission Bay A pedestrian was rushed to the hospital with head trauma, after he was struck by a San Francisco Municipal Transportation light rail vehicle in Mission Bay Wednesday evening. According to San Francisco Police
SF News Parking Over Pedestrians: Commitment To Vision Zero Questioned As Traffic Deaths Spike San Francisco's commitment to eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024, known as Vision Zero, is this year off to a tragic start. Adopted in 2014, the two-year-old initiative seeks to educate the public on
SF News With Towing Fees Slashed, SFMTA Now Wants Some Parking Meters To Run Past 6 PM Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has successfully pushed the SF Municipal Transportation Agency to reduce towing fees, the MTA says they need to find a way to make up the
SF News Lombard Street Will Get A Pedestrian-Focused Makeover Lombard Street and not just the famous twisty part is in store for some changes designed to improve pedestrian safety. The SFMTA intended to vote today, reports the Chronicle, on whether or not
SF News New Rule Would Ban Cars From East Side Of Twin Peaks As reported last summer, a change is coming to Twin Peaks. The popular tourist destination and vantage point draws throngs of tourists and locals whose cars can crowd its roads and create a
SF News Brave Vigilante Thwarts Cell Phone Theft On Muni A brave bystander thwarted an all-too-common crime yesterday, after a thief picked the wrong day to steal a cell phone. According to the San Francisco Police Department, at 8:58 Wednesday morning a
SF News Four Injured When Cable Car And Recology Truck Collide Another wet foggy morning on Mason St. I look out my window & what do I see? The Little #CableCar That Could(n't). pic.twitter.com/n0SjtXZwhr— Ivy Something (@ivysomething) March 9, 2016
SF News High Towing Fees Could Come Down Following Supervisors' Scrutiny Towing fees in San Francisco are some of the most wildly expensive in the nation, standing at two to three times what you might pay in any other major US city. If one
SF News SFMTA Director: New Buses Work Just Fine On Hills SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin wants everyone to calm down. Contrary to a report last week in the Examiner, Reiskin says the new $1.1 million-a-pop 60-foot electric trolley buses purchased by
SF News New Muni Buses Can't Handle San Francisco's Hills On a beautiful Earth Day last year, SFMTA officials excitedly unveiled the first of sixty brand new electric trolley buses purchased by the city of San Francisco. In conjunction with 61 new biodiesel-electric
SF News San Francisco Owes Steve Jobs $174 If you're anything like deceased Apple founder Steve Jobs (and you just might be), then the City and County of San Francisco owes you some money. The SFMTA posted a list of 200,
SF News SFMTA Board Wants To Bring Back Sunday Parking Meter Enforcement As noted yesterday, the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency's Board was presented with a proposal to increase cash Muni fares. But that's not the only way they're looking at making dough, as SF's
SF News Mission Street Set For Massive Transit Changes, Expect Much Confusion With the stated goal of reducing commute times and increasing safety, city officials began work this past Saturday on a set of transit changes that will profoundly affect that way you navigate Mission
SF News M-Oceanview Derails Near SF State Whoa!!! This M line derailed. Super scary. @sfmta_muni #Muni #sf pic.twitter.com/493fgz2JWU— Dustin Allen (@dusteallen) February 12, 2016 A Muni M-line light rail train derailed Friday morning at 19th and
SF News Muni Uniforms May Change Color In Style Update Some colors just seem like San Francisco — Giants orange, the Instagram-ready hue of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the dull yet welcoming brown of Muni unforms are just a few examples. So it
SF News SFMTA Investigation Into Nevius Fare Evasion Complete, Preferential Treatment Confirmed A SFMTA investigation into Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius's bizarre article detailing his Muni fare evasion and subsequent getting off scot-free was completed last week, and today we learn the results. It seems
SF News [Update] More Hidden Super Bowl Costs: SFMTA Workers Asked To 'Volunteer' On The Clock As taxpayer costs related to Super Bowl City continue to increase, we learn today that at least one city department is working hard to keep expenses off the books. SFMTA officials, it seems,
SF News Video: San Francisco Double-Parkers Shamed (But Not Ticketed) I have often said that any budget deficits San Francisco might be suffering could be solved by sending SFTMA's transit enforcers to specific areas and ticketing every single stinkin' double-parker that they see.
SF News New Downtown Surveillance Cameras Raise Privacy Concerns Why is @sfmta_muni putting up "traffic" cameras in locations where there will be no cars? #SuperBowlSurveillance pic.twitter.com/lGY4F1wzDM— Oakland Privacy (@OaklandPrivacy) January 10, 2016 New cameras that have begun popping
SF News Concerned Citizen Predicts Likely Super Bowl 50 Traffic Impact We've heard a lot about the upcoming Super Bowl 50 downtown street closures and resulting disruptions to Muni service, and SFMTA last Friday helpfully released a map detailing their predictions for how downtown
SF News Zuckerberg Neighbor Wages War Over Liberty Hill Parking Spots At least one of Mark Zuckerberg's San Francisco neighbors is not having it with the boy-billionaire, and has started a campaign to get SFMTA involved. The neighbor, who apparently lives near the Facebook
SF News SF Cable Car Operator Struck By Allegedly Drunk Motorcyclist Has Died BREAKING: #SF cable car operator injured in June crash dies https://t.co/rcBvLqGT7k #Muni #Transit pic.twitter.com/iuwbRSHIEV— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) January 12, 2016 Seven months after a San Francisco cable
