SF News By Mayor Lee's Decree, Sunday Parking Will Be Free At last night's meeting, the SFMTA board approved a controversial plan, set in motion earlier this year during the Mayor's State of the City address, to return to the heady, circa-2012 days of
SF News The Mayor vs. Muni: The Fight Over Sunday Meters San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is ratcheting up his opposition to Sunday parking meter enforcement, telling KCBS that he refuses to accept any compromises, and that he is "only willing to consider 'no
SF News Here's Why You Should Fight Your Muni Fare Evasion Ticket Though Muni fare inspectors tend to be miserable, grumpy people who do not want to hear your stories, there is in fact reason to argue that Clipper Card-based tickets might not be valid.
SF News What The Hell Is Going On With Free Sunday Parking Meters? Earlier this year, Mayor Ed Lee announced during his State of the City address that Muni was no longer underfunded and thus, the city could end the year-long experiment that was charging for
SF News Board Of Supervisors Reject Bid To Hold Up Tech Shuttles In a marathon meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to reject an appeal that would have put the brakes on the city's plan to allow commuter shuttles at Muni stops
SF News Bay Area Bike Share Expansion Delayed Due to Inconvenient Bankruptcy Alas, those of us hoping to see Bay Area Bike Share rides become useful beyond the Financial District and Embarcadero will have to wait until later this year. Bikes and docking stations were
SF News New Market Street Changes Will Banish Even More Cars Although the city is still a long ways from achieving Gavin Newsom's dream of turning Market Street into the Champs-Elysée of the West, the S.F. Municipal Transportation Agency will start enforcing new
SF News Leaked Google Memo Tells Employees How To Feel About Their Buses Later today the seven member board of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will weigh in on a proposal that will allow corporate shuttles to share public stops with Muni vehicles. In preparation
SF News S.F. Can't Profit From Shuttle Buses Monday saw an agreement between the SFMTA and the privately contracted shuttle buses that ferry tech workers up and down the Peninsula. But while the agreement marks the first government regulation of the
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Halloween-Themed Muni Etiquette Video We Didn't Know We Needed Look, we're not going to pretend we know what this is or why it exists, but it is quite possibly the most baffling video the SFMTA has produced since they decided to give
SF News Tell Bay Area Bike Share Where You Need More Bikes Bay Area Bike Share launched back in August and although it has generally been considered a success, our biggest gripe with it were the large swaths of San Francisco left without bikes and
SF News Taxis Services Could Maybe Get Better, By 2015 It may surprise no one to learn that there are currently no enforceable dispatch performance standards in place for San Francisco taxis. How many times have you been told a taxi is on
SF News Muni Caves to Corporate Shuttle Bus Pressure In an effort to appear that they have any control whatsoever over the growing swarm of corporate shuttle buses clogging neighborhood streets and bogarting their bus stops, the SFMTA has proposed a new
SF News Many Hoodlums Jumping Out of Muni Bus Back Doors Lately Apparently there's been a rash of bus-jumping and bus "surfing" lately as ne'er-do-well passengers have figured out how to kick open rear bus doors, in particular on the 14-L in the Mission. The
SF News Shuttle-freude: Genentech Bus Accident Closes Four Lanes Of Divisadero [PHOTO] Around 7:20 a.m. Friday morning, a corporate shuttle for Genentech managed to not only make its own riders late for work, but probably a few other innocent commuters as well. Local
SF News Reminder: Starting Sunday, SF Parking No Longer Free You want to park on Sundays? Well, parking costs. And right here is where you start paying ... in sweat. And in money. Just pay in money, actually. See, starting this Sunday, parking in
SF News NextBus Even More Wrong Than Usual Today Wondering why your NextBus times have been even more unpredictable than usual today? It's not just the scaled back service the disastrous transit agency is running on for the rest of the year.
SF News Muni Underground Melts Down at Rush Hour; Also, an F-Line Car Hits a Pedestrian at Church and Market Tonight was yet another bad night for the SFMTA, as the Muni metro suffered a total and complete meltdown at 6 p.m. due to an alleged blown transformer at Van Ness Station.
SF News Regarding Those Lower-Case Street Signs The SFMTA is slowly but surely replacing all the street signage around town, doing away with the lovely, modern, all-caps typography they've employed for the better part of the last century, and going
SF News Fell and Oak Streets to Become Less Deadly for Bicyclists At yesterday's SFMTA Board meeting, a proposed Fell and Oak Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Project was unanimously approved. This means that the two parallel throughways, upon which thousands of cars careen everyday to
SF News Muni Bus Hits F-Line Streetcar, Flees Scene? [Update] A Muni bus, possibly a 38, just collided with an F-Line streetcar at the intersection of Kearny and Market Streets, causing damage to the streetcar and a possible derailment. The driver of the
SF News No More Pink Mustaches? PUC Orders Cease-And-Desist For Ridesharing Apps Ridesharing apps like Lyft and SideCar have been surging in popularity over the past few months in San Francisco's taxi desert. In fact, we'd be willing to bet more than a few frustrated
SF News Hack Free Muni Rides Under the premise of highlighting some vulnerabilities in Muni's contactless fare card system, two analysts with New York security consulting firm Intrepidus Group have created an app that allows riders to use an
Arts & Entertainment SFMTA Wants To Know Your Thoughts On Bike Parking "Bicycle use in San Francisco is increasing," says the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), and they would like to know your thoughts on long-term bike parking (i.e., "people who need to
SF News More On Those Pink Mustache Cars, And Why They're Good Just a few days ago some friends were remarking on the uptick of cars around town with pink mustaches on them. Was this some sort of baseball reference they did not understand? A