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
SF News Muni's Killing Off Their Iconic Paper Transfers Nostalgic people, take note: Soon that (somewhat arbitrarily) torn Muni transfer for cash fares will disappear, to be replaced by a computer-printed slip. According to the Chron, the current cash fare boxes Muni
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Pass Cable Cars! Two cable car operators were hit earlier this year. And now @sfmta_muni is working to make the iconic job safer. http://t.co/p77rsOaDHW— KQED News (@KQEDnews) August 12, 2015 Following on
SF News Stanley Roberts Visits Outside Lands Just To Shame Uber Drivers Stopping In Bus Zones Yay! It wouldn't be a big festival/event day in San Francisco without KRON 4's Stanley Roberts finding some attendees "behaving badly." But rather than go after wristband scalpers or drug dealers this
SF News You Won't Be Able To Get Home On The Muni Underground After 10 PM Starting July 31 Muni will once more try to ruin your life starting next month as a planned and not well publicized six-month late-night shutdown of the entire underground system begins to make upgrades to its
SF News SF To Pay Woman Who Was Struck By Muni $11 Million After a City Attorney's office assessment determined that San Francisco had little to no chance of winning a court case against a woman who was permanently disabled after she was struck by a
SF News A Streetcar Named The E-Embarcadero To Begin Service From Wharf To Caltrain Next Month Step right up and meet the E-Embarcadero, the new addition to Muni's service that's simultaneously quite vintage and historic. As Hoodline and Market Street Railway report, the long-awaited return of the E begins
Arts & Entertainment Watch Buses Fly By In This SFMTA Time-Lapse Map Muni doesn't always run like clockwork — or, in this instance, like a data visualization. But Danny Whalen, cofounder of Remix (née TransitMix), still gives the service a lot of credit. "What SFMTA does,
SF News SF's Dwindling Number Of Parking Spaces, By The Numbers There are a lot of reasons the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency says they remove parking places in San Francisco, from efforts to improve pedestrian visibility at dangerous intersections to parklets to "part-time
SF News Will SF Ever Get Speeder-Busting Cameras? Nearly six months after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced that they'd be working toward installing "life-saving speed enforcement cameras," they've finally gotten around to crafting a proposal for the cameras' use
SF News [Update] London Breed: 'Traffic Will Be A Nightmare' On 4/20, Traffic Diversion On Fell [Update] A previous version of this story noted several street closures, but in fact, there will only be a traffic diversion on Fell Street to northbound Stanyan Street, effectively shutting down Kezar Drive
SF News Driver Slams Into Cable Car Conductor As He Unloads Passengers A conductor on the Powell Street cable car line was critically injured Monday when a driver struck him as he unloaded passengers at a Chinatown stop. The collision happened at around 10:35
SF News Suspects At Large After Man Is Dragged Off Bus, Robbed At Gun And Knife-Point A gang of seven young suspects remain on the loose after they dragged a man off a Muni bus and robbed him early Thursday morning. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer
