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
SF News SFMTA Forgets They Need To Direct Traffic, Ups SF Taxpayers' Super Bowl Bill Remember how we told you that San Francisco was expected to spend about $4 million of taxpayer money on the Super Bowl? Well, scratch that figure! As it turns out, the good old
SF News SFMTA Chief Says Nevius Fare Evasion To Be Investigated Welp, it sounds like Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius's choice to write about a recent incident in which he failed to pay for his Muni ride, got busted, and then didn't get a
SF News San Francisco Drivers Only Getting Worse; Intersection-Blocking Citations Tripled In 2015 Everyone who's been behind a wheel recently or been stuck in downtown traffic in a Lyft knows what Dianne Feinstein knows: Traffic in San Francisco is worse than it's ever been. Or at
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
