SF News SFMTA Starts 'Moving Forward Together' With More Parking Tickets Despite a balanced budget submitted to the Mayor's office in the beginning of May, crumbling labor negotiations recently left the SFMTA with a $17 million pothole in their operating costs. To cover a
SF News SFMTA Hopes We Can All 'Move Forward Together' With New Logo The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, overseers of the city's various methods of surface transportation, unveiled a new logo yesterday in hopes that we could all move on and forget the first 100
SF News Twitter May Be Getting Their Own Bus Line First Twitter gets a big tax break, now the MTA is going to be considering adding a new express bus route to Muni's roster at their meeting tomorrow: the 83X. The line is
Arts & Entertainment Striking New Photos Of Great 1906 Earthquake Emerge On the anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has released a stunning new set of photos from their archives, offering some previously unseen views
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Municipal Railway... Mayor Ed Lee celebrated 100 years of San Francisco's Municipal Railway today by re-launching Muni's first streetcar, the restored Car No. 1. Joining the Mayor for the dignitaries-only first ride in the century-old
SF News Want to Yell At Your Muni Overlords? Tonight You Can The SFMTA is having what is sure to be a swell town hall meeting tonight in West Portal to discuss their budget, and the topic of charging for parking meters on Sundays. Let
SF News NYT Now Intrigued By Our Demand-Based Parking System The front page of the New York Times website right now is a story about San Francisco's new demand-based, variably priced parking system, which they claim is already making parking spots easier to
SF News Parking Meter Hours Could Get Extended to Evenings, Sundays There is no end in sight for the SFMTA's budget woes, and at today's board meeting they will discuss various proposals for closing an estimated $20 million shortfall this year and $34 million
SF News S.F. Drivers Cannot Find Cheap Parking, Numbers Show It's been about nine months since the SFMTA rolled out the high-tech SFPark program, which means it is time again to check in on the deluge of data from those fancy meters. When
SF News SFMTA is Creating Another Clipper-like Card for Taxis and Parking Because your wallet isn't already fat enough, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority is currently cooking up another universal payment card to give locals yet another way to feed parking meters or pay
SF News Proposed Cab Stands on Broadway Will Help You Vacate North Beach Faster, Possibly Alleviate Crime As part of their ongoing (and some might say misguided) efforts to fix the taxi situation in San Francisco, the Municipal Transportation Agency is fielding proposals for new cab stands spread around town.
SF News Cyclists Fume as City Allows Taxis to Use Bike Lanes Infamous for their lack of vehicular finesse (and numbers), taxicabs will now be allowed to legally use bike lanes to pick up and drop off passengers. Taxi drivers who used to use the
SF News Taxi Cabs Need More Lights, Says SFMTA You know what's more frustrating than not enough taxis in town? A string of taxis blowing by with their light on while you stand there continuing to hold your arm up in the
SF News Muni Tries to Get A Tiny Bit Faster on J, N, and F Lines The interminable source of rage and frustration known as the SFMTA is taking steps this week to "improve efficiencies within the Muni system," and they're starting with several of the busiest rail lines.
SF News Central Subway Entrance At Union Square Revealed; It's Not That Exciting Call it a subway to nowhere, or call it the greatest thing ever to happen to riders of the Dirty 30, the Central Subway is going to be a fact of life for
SF News Muni To OK Back-Door Bus Boarding Despite the fact that every ne'er-do-well and elderly lady with a pink plastic shopping bag already does this, back-door boarding on Muni busses is still illegal, and that one Muni driver in twenty
SF News Department of Homeland Security Bringing High Tech Surveillance to Muni Buses We know Muni's in-vehicle cameras work, we've enjoyed/gasped at footage of at least one accident in the past year, but the Municipal Railway's aging fuzzycams aren't sophisticated enough for the surveillance geeks
SF News We Are Getting a Few More Cabs, and They Will Be More Expensive At their board meeting yesterday, the SFMTA voted to approve 85 new taxi medallions, 50 of which will be for part-time, single operators limited to 60 hours per week on the streets. This
SF News SFMTA Might Allow More Cabs Onto the Streets At their board meeting on Tuesday, the SFMTA is planning to consider issuing 125 new taxi permits, potentially increasing the city's fleet of cabs by about 8%. This is obviously welcome news to
SF News DPW Director Ed Reiskin Gets Top Job at SFMTA Well that was quick. The Chronicle reports today that the current director of the Department of Public Works has gotten the nod from the Municipal Transit Agency to fill the void left by
SF News This is Rich: The SFMTA Would Like Your 'Feedback' In Re: Nat Ford's Replacement Former Muni executive director Nat Ford has finally left the building with his $384,000 golden parachute, and with this news we were both relieved and disgusted. Debra Johnson, meanwhile, who was formerly
SF News Volunteer Oversight Panel Thinks Central Subway is Expensive, Not That Great In a 55-page report released yesterday, a Civil Grand Jury tasked with keeping an eye on SFMTA's Central Subway Project called out the project for being too expensive and poorly laid out. While
SF News SFMTA Approves Nat Ford's Big Payout While Pool of Replacement Candidates Shrinks Slightly At the SFMTA meeting last night, board members unanimously approved Nat Ford's $384,000 separation agreement. That "poof" sound you're hearing is Ford's golden parachute deploying to slow his fall after years of
SF News Muni's Tentative Union Agreement, In Summary Charlie Goodyear, SFMTA's hired gun PR guy, announced yesterday that the agency reached a tentative agreement with the Muni Operators Union. As pretty much everybody reports, the deal will save the agency $21.
SF News SFMTA Ponders Most Expensive Cab Fares in the Country At tomorrow's Board of Directors meeting, the San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Agency will review a proposal that would raise taxi meter rates to 55 cents per fifth of a mile or minute of
