SF News Mayor Lee To Take $648 Million Muni Ride Friday Morning Hey, somebody write this down: this week, Mayor Ed Lee is riding Muni not once, but twice! First, he took the M-Ocean on Tuesday, to, he told the Chron, "try to experience it
SF News Muni Metro Service Resumes After Woman Is Struck At Van Ness Station A spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has confirmed that a woman was struck by a Muni Metro vehicle at Van Ness Station this morning. Fire officials say that the woman
SF News You May Soon Be Able To Pay For Muni Using Your Smartphone Already tired of using your precious laundry quarters to pay for Muni's new $2.25 fare? Well, if a new pilot program set to start in early 2015 works out, you will have
SF News San Francisco Honda Minivan Strikes Cyclist, Crashes Into Muni Bus In a bizarre chain-reaction collision Monday morning, a cyclist was struck by the driver of a minivan, who then slammed into a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus ferrying commuters through the Richmond District,
SF News Pedestrian Struck By T-Third Monday Morning Service on the San Francisco Municipal Railway's T-Third line was disrupted for about 2.5 hours this morning after one of the transit agency's light-rail vehicles struck a elderly man. According to SFMTA
SF News Apparently No One's Complaining To Mayor Lee About How We're All Paying More To Ride Muni Next Week Despite an apparent budget surplus that enabled the transit agency to dump moneymakers like Sunday parking meters, you'll be paying more to ride Muni starting Monday. Though "constant complaints" inspired Mayor Ed Lee
SF News SFMTA To Pay For Special-Ed Kids To Join Free Muni For Youth 'Pilot' Program Though a local tech company's grant has helped to fund transit for SF schoolkids, not every low-income student was covered. Now the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is using money from its own
SF News No Real Consequences For Muni Drivers Who Can't Prove They Were Sick During Sickout Are you someone who's gentle and sweet enough to have believed that the drivers who missed work during The Great Muni Sickout of 2014 were actually ill? Ha ha, just kidding! No one,
SF News Muni To 'Charge Restitution' To Tech Bus That Halted J-Church Service "The SFMTA is not regulating shuttle routing," the transit agency announced when they kicked off their 18-month-long pilot program allowing tech buses to use Muni stops. Wonder if they regretted that decision when,
SF News Muni's New Light Rail Fleet By The Numbers You know Muni's Metro light-rail system: That's the J, K, L, M, N and T. The SFMTA Board is voting today on an unprecedentedly-huge purchase of new light rail vehicles intended to boost
SF News Dedicated Bikeway Along Embarcadero In the Works The next phase to make the Embarcadero more bicycle-friendly is in the works and goes far beyond the green paint the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency laid down a year ago. The popular
SF News Bryant Street Closed After Water Main Break Floods Road In the second such incident this week, a water main has broken and is flooding a stretch of Bryant Street Thursday morning. According to San Francisco Public Utilities Commission spokesperson Amy Sinclair, the
SF News Will This New Muni Map Make Life Any Easier? Two volunteer cartographers, we're told, have been working for ten years to improve upon Muni's current, highly confusing bus and Metro route map, which is a convoluted tangle of rainbow squiggles, inexplicable boxes,
SF News Digging Done In Central Subway Project, Ratpocalypse Over? The two big tunnel-boring machines, which were nicknamed Mom Chung and Big Alma after two female figures in S.F. history, just completed excavating twin, 8,300-foot long tunnels beneath downtown San Francisco
SF News Lombard Street Residents Finally Get Peace And Quiet In Form Of Massive Crowd Of Pedestrians After residents of the visitor-beloved stretch of Lombard known (dubiously) as the "world's crookedest" asked the SFMTA to consider keeping tourist traffic off their street, the MTA complied, launching a "pilot program" of
SF News Video: Muni Passenger Wearing Sock On Junk Empties Bus 1 California service was briefly delayed Thursday when a passenger removed all his clothing, covered his penis with a sock, and refused the leave the bus. SF Weekly spoke with SFMTA spokesperson Paul
SF News Want To Visit Lombard's Crooked Stretch This Weekend? Then Take A Cab So, you have out-of-town guests, but they're too delicate for Fisherman's Wharf's Dungeon and too afraid of ghosts to go to Alcatraz. All they want to do it visit that crooked street they've
SF News It's Officially Curtains For Sunday Parking Meters: No More Enforcement As Of July 1 And that's how San Francisco's brief flirtation with Sunday Parking meter enforcement ends, folks, not with a bang, but with a whimper. It was all the way back in February, 2012 when the
SF News New Muni Operators Contract Delayed, Of Course The Muni sick-out that resulted in transit delays and hundreds of doctor's notes earlier this month was not, apparently, a very useful bargaining tactic. After bailing on their contract arbitration meeting last Monday,
SF News Map Shows What Muni Stops Will Be Shared With Tech Shuttles Though the pilot program to allow corporate shuttles (AKA "Google Buses") to share Muni stops got its final OK in April, the SFMTA has moved in its own considered pace to figure out
SF News Not Unlike Your Bus, Muni Drivers Union Fails To Show Up (For Contract Arbitration Meeting) Though Muni seemed to be running at its usual level of C+ to B- level activity this morning, all is not hearts and flowers following last week's commute-crippling sick-out. Instead, we're told that
SF News Muni Drivers Pony Up Excuses For Sickouts As Union Leader Pleads Case In The Press In the words of one Muni operator, this week the transit agency's drivers were "sick of disenfranchisement, discrimination, deceit, and disrespect,” leading to a three-day "sick-out" that left passengers stranded, crushed, and angry.
SF News Sick-Out Recovery? Muni Promises To Run At 90% Thursday Morning Is our Muni sick-out nightmare nearly over? The SFMTA seems to think so, alerting media this morning that the transit agency expects to be operating at 90% of their usual service Thursday morning.
SF News Muni Sick-Out Watch: Light Rail Drivers Disappear, Snarling Wednesday Evening Commute The SFMTA's optimistic plan to resume normal service in the face of what they thought would be a less sick day of sick-outs apparently proved unfounded. Just hours after the transit agency told
SF News Diagnosis Muni: Driver Sick-Out Continues, But Is (Maybe) Improving? After two days of terrible delays and packed vehicles, the Muni driver sick-out appears to be abating slightly. However, the SFMTA is still warning riders to expect delays and to "monitor news media"
