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"
SF News Muni Confirms Tonight's Commute Will Continue To Blow, Sick-Out Might Continue Wednesday Well, you gotta give it to Muni: at least they say they have a plan to deal with the second evening commute of a driver "sick-out" that has riders waiting for ages to
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Scenes From A Muni Sick-Out For the second day in a row, Muni operators called in sick as a result of unsuccessful contract negotiations. Did you have a rough time packed like sardines in slow-plodding Muni bus or
SF News Muni Driver Sick-Out Continues Tuesday, 'Missed And Delayed Service' Promised [Update] Just because you finally made it home last night does not mean the most recent Muni mess is over. For, as the SFMTA said in an alert sent to media at 6:11
SF News Muni Tells Everyone They Probably Shouldn't Take Muni Home Tonight @sfmta_muni just around the corner #muni pic.twitter.com/shLWXdXZaZ— Roy McKenzie (@RoyMcKenzie) June 2, 2014 Regarding today's Muni sick-out: the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has let everyone know they shouldn't
SF News DeSoto Cab Head Says S.F. Cab Industry Could Collapse In 18 Months At the hands of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, yellow (and other color) taxis could be kaput in San Francisco in a year and a half, at least according to the president of one
SF News Muni Driver Sick-Out Makes For Rotten Monday Commute [Update] Don't say we didn't warn you. As rumored last week, Muni drivers, who are currently in contract negotiations with SFMTA management, are holding a "sick out" today, with two-thirds of Muni's fleet out
SF News A Lot Of Muni Drivers Might Call In Sick On Monday It's always something! No sooner has Muni saved us from flying out of our seats than another threat looms, this time, a wave of "illness" that might strike the transit agency's drivers as
SF News Muni Locks Down Potentially Dangerous Front-Facing Bus Seats Muni riders who prefer the unobstructed first row of front facing seats had better brace for disappointment, as new fears over sliding-rider lawsuits have the transit agency cutting off access to all those
SF News Every Single Muni Driver Is Suing Muni An estimated 2,500 Muni drivers have packed into a class action lawsuit against their employer, alleging the Municipal Railroad has been wasting their time and failing to pay their fair share for
SF News Muni's (Sometimes Botched) Fare Inspection Efforts By The Numbers 700,000: The number of people who ride Muni every day $20 million: The amount of money, per year, that Muni says that it's losing because some riders don't pay their fare 54:
SF News A New Proposal To Un-Suck Muni: Tie Funding To S.F. Population Growth District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener is taking a hard look at ways to funnel more funding to the city's forever-ailing transit system. His latest proposal: a city charter amendment that would increase the
SF News San Francisco's World Famous Crooked Street Might Close Thought the debate regarding which street in San Francisco is the crookedest—some say Lombard, some say Vermont, some say Carlton B Goodlett (because City Hall, ha ha ha)—the twisty stretch of
SF News Supervisors Testing Fewer Seats, Wider Aisles On Muni Trains If you took an N-Judah to work and noticed a lot more standing room, you can thank Supervisors London Breed and Scott Wiener, who pushed for more strap-hanging and less seat-hogging on light
SF News Cell Phone Thefts On Muni Reportedly Going Down A dramatic drop in cell phone thefts on Muni may be attributable to increased police presence on busses and trains, or it may be just that fewer people are reporting incidents. According to
SF News San Francisco's Transportation Funding Ballot Measure Plan By The Numbers $1.5 billion: The approximate amount of money San Francisco is attempting to generate with multiple voter-approved initiatives this November $635 million: The portion of that money that would go toward Muni $625
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
SF News Muni's Performance By The Numbers At a Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting Monday, SFMTA director of transit John Haley trumpeted the improvements the MTA says they're seeing in Muni's on-time performance stats over
