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
SF News SFMTA Bumps Up Parking Fees, Really Wants to Stick it to You For Parking in that Handicap Zone The SFMTA announced some increased fees and fines today: neighborhood parking passes are going up a couple bucks. Starting in July, a year of street parking will now run you an even $100
SF News Cabal of Nanny-Aided Moms Knows How to Get Cheap Parking Permits Mothers in San Francisco have been lobbying for months to get parking permits for their nannies, thus allowing their frazzled and exhausted hired help to park closer to the homes they work in
SF News SNOOZEFLASH: Muni Not So On-Time Would an 85% on-time record be enough to satisfy the disgruntled riders of Muni trains and buses? That was the voter-mandated percentage as of 1999, but the best Muni has done so far
SF News The Easiest Ways to Get a Parking Ticket in 2011 As we mentioned last week, the SFMTA plans to hand out more tickets this year in order to make up a huge budget shortfall. While the harsh reality of urban car ownership dictates
SF News More Parking Tickets In 2011 This should go over swimmingly with some San Franciscans. Looking to fill Muni's $21 million budget shortfall, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials plan on ticketing divers more in 2011. Yes, in lieu
SF News Recent Spate of Muni Delays Not Your Imagination After enduring a number of painful delays on the Muni underground himself, SFMTA board member Malcolm Heinicke called a meeting last week to discuss the "unusually" high number of delays in recent months.
SF News S.F. Taxis May Soon Use 'For Hire' Lights to Indicate Availability Those who've spent any time in New York likely have found it frustrating to hear that those 'For Hire' lights on the top of cabs in S.F. often don't denote available taxis
misc Arco Customers on Fell, Read This Flier SFMTA sent out this helpful flier to warn drivers about incorrectly situating their vehicles while waiting to enter the Arco gas station on Fell, a move that effectively blocks the bike lane and
SF News Muni Holds Hearing On Restoring Service Muni is holding a hearing today to discuss/debate the restoration of more than half the service cuts they made this past spring, which they say can happen by September. They're crediting "stronger
SF News Bad Idea, San Francisco: $5 F-Market Rides The MTA is proposing cuts to every Muni line in an effort to close a plus-sized $16.9 million budget gap. What's more, and you might want to grab a nearby trashcan to
SF News Video: Muni Footage From 19 Polk Accident Oh geez. Be sure to watch this this with the volume at a comfortable level. (The crash is loud. Very loud.) On Monday, if you recall, a 19 Polk Muni line and a
SF News Free Muni Rides, Longer Hours On NYE For the tenth year in a row, free Muni rides will start on New Year's Eve and end on New Year's Day, hauling pleasantly tipsy to wildly aggressive revelers around the city. (Be
