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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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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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'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

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

[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

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

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

Video: SFPD Officer Pepper Sprays, Beats Homeless Man After Verbal Confrontation On Bus [Updated]

San Francisco's Public Defender is calling for better training for San Francisco Police Department officers after a local cop was caught on video beating and pepper spraying a homeless man who'd fallen asleep

This Scenario-Based Transit Map Will Change Your Commute

Now in its third beta, a comprehensive San Francisco transit map heralded by The Atlantic's CityLab has the power to take a starting point in the city and estimate how far you can

SFMTA Agrees To Dismiss (Some) Tickets Issued Even After They Said They Weren't Enforcing Meters

ATTN: No meter enforcement today. #BayAreaStorm— SFMTA (@sfmta_muni) December 11, 2014 No Parking Meter Enforcement Today Due to #sfstorm #BayAreaStorm @sfmta_muni— City of SanFrancisco (@sfgov) December 11, 2014 "ATTN: No meter

Rainpocalypse's Silver Lining: No Parking Meter Enforcement Today In SF

Yes, today's storm is screwing up the Bay Area and flooding our streets, but there's one silver lining for San Franciscans, as parking meters won't be enforced today. According to the San Francisco

Significant BART, Muni Delays Wednesday Morning [Updated]

Wow, did you hear that thunder and see that lightning last night? Pretty cool, huh? Well, not to Muni, as the storm that accompanied nature's light show flooded the Van Ness Muni station