SF News Recently Approved Tech-Shuttle Program Faces Legal Challenge It was just last month that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make the tech shuttle pilot program permanent, thus formalizing the rules and regulations set forth to govern the commuter
SF News For 16th Year In A Row, Muni Will Be Free On New Year's Eve New Year's Eve may be known as "amateur night," but the professionals at Muni are also on the clock that evening — and they're giving it up for free. "We wish all San Francisco
SF News SFMTA May Extend Illegal Church Parking To All, Proving We All Worship The Gods Of Parking The survey results are in, and the views of neighbors and business owners have been neatly tallied. And now, in classic San Francisco style, it's time to dismiss all of that and come
SF News Two Of Muni's Electric Buses Caught Fire Last Week Two electric Muni buses caught fire last week, leading to the immediate evacuation of passengers and the inspection of a substantial part of the Muni Trolley Electric Coach fleet. The fires occurred on
SF News Muni Light Rail Vehicle Strikes Woman Between Tunnels A woman was taken to San Francisco General Hospital Sunday morning, after she was struck by a Muni light rail vehicle near Duboce Park. Bay City News reports that the woman was struck
SF News Muni Still Unable To Wrap Its Head Around Two Trains Arriving At Once The latest effort to make Muni suck just a little less has, surprise surprise, run into delays. A software bug has prevented Muni from safely implementing its planned program of double berthing at
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Already Annoyed About Super Bowl, Still Don't Know What It Will Cost City Echoing some of the back-and-forth that happened leading up to the 2013 America's Cup, several of SF's Board of Supervisors are continuing to voice concerns about how much of the bill for the
SF News No, Most Mission Residents Are Not OK With Median Parking On Sunday Last month the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency launched a survey with the goal of determining how San Franciscans feel about illegal double parking on Dolores and Guerrero Streets by churchgoers (and whoever
SF News SF Taxpayers Might Be On The Hook For SFMTA Superbowl Costs Though the Super Bowl itself is to last mere hours and be held in Santa Clara, San Francisco's Super Bowl City will naturally run for much longer than, directly affecting us all from
SF News The More People Ride Muni, The Less They Like It According to a recent telephone survey, the more frequently people ride the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's buses, trolleys, and trains, the lower they rated the transit system's service. That's just one of
SF News Muni Will Never Suck Again, Now That Their Long-Standing Driver Shortage Has Ended The headline says it all, you guys! The dog days are over, and Muni has transformed into a swiftly-moving chariot, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Did you notice? In a
SF News Video: Tron-Like 3D Market Street Map Created By Laser Truck This past Sunday saw a strange sight, even by Market Street standards, when a laser-equipped motorcade made its sluggish way down Market Street. But perhaps you missed the LiDAR truck, which needed the
SF News Pilot Tech Shuttle Program Has Become Permanent As Wired rightly puts it, "Few things have come to epitomize San Francisco gentrification anxiety more than private Silicon Valley shuttle buses," and today we can announce that all those hulking, white "Google
SF News Super Bowl 50 Committee Wants Us To Calm Down About Muni Wire Removal, Says They'll Pay For It Less than a week after the news broke that the Super Bowl 50 Committee is seeking to pull down the Muni wires on or near Market Street, the public outcry over the plan
SF News SFMTA Wants To Talk About Illegal Church Double Parking On Sundays Sundays in San Francisco bring with them a familiar scene: hundreds of cars, illegally double parked, lining the streets for blocks surrounding prominent churches. As many churchgoers drive to their religious services, this
SF News City To Demolish Pedestrian Bridges On Geary To Speed Up Bus Travel As part of a plan to streamline bus rapid transit along Geary Boulevard, the city of San Francisco is proposing to demolish two pedestrian bridges which they claim stand in the way. The
SF News Powell Street To Be Partially Closed To Traffic In Pedestrian Safety Pilot Frequenters of the unmitigated madhouse that is the strip of Powell Street between Geary and Ellis Streets have reason to celebrate this morning, as the SFMTA has approved a pilot program that would
SF News SFMTA Will Drug-Test Taxi Drivers, Is Chill With Medical Marijuana Though Further differentiating the taxi industry from Lyft and Uber, who do nothing of the sort, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors voted unanimously yesterday to annually drug test cabbies for
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Backpacked Muni Clinger? Man hops onto the front of a Transbay Terminal bus in San Francisco. http://t.co/ozKAdJcGyy (Photo via Yvonne Pham) pic.twitter.com/Oa79fOKihJ— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) October 14, 2015 The
SF News Cyclist Dies In Market Street Collision With Muni Bus SFPD: Bicyclist was a 48 year old male, riding between two buses in the same direction. pic.twitter.com/RqDptRbLBG— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) October 12, 2015 One cyclist is dead and another injured
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Attempts To Beat Muni Bus Into Submission, Fails Without context, this video posted to YouTube on Friday remains a curious non sequitur: an enraged man repeatedly bashes a 30 Stockton Muni bus while yelling such threats as "I'll fucking kill you.
SF News Proposed Condos At Pagoda Theater Site Could Stymie Central Subway Extension Plan With the goal of expanding the Central Subway project from Chinatown to Fisherman's Wharf, an oft-cited item on the SFMTA's future project "wish list," Supervisor Julie Christensen is pushing the City of San
SF News Critical Mass Cyclists On Possible Highway To Hell Friday, As They Mix With AC/DC Fans This Friday is the first Critical Mass bike ride since August's road rage altercation, but this month's riders have even more to deal with than increasingly negative public perception of their event: Legions
SF News 5R-Fulton To Be 20 Percent Faster With Traffic Circles And Tweaks On McAllister The SFMTA is hailing its experiment, known as the 5L-Fulton Limited Pilot Project, as a success. Already, they say, it's moved and consolidated stops to increase speed and ridership on this and other
SF News Muni Wants To Be Better: More Trains And Route Changes Coming In September You know how Muni switched some things up in April, adding some rapid/skip-stop bus lines to existing lines and trying to improve service for certain parts of town? Well that was just
