SF News The Haight's Page Street Becomes Permanent Slow Street The SFMTA board has signed off on Page Street becoming a permanent Slow Street, capping off nearly three years in which a pandemic experiment became popular for many residents.
SF News Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.
SF News SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.
SF News SFMTA Makes 16 Slow Streets Permanent, Including the Humongously Controversial Slow Lake Street A full 16 so-called Slow Streets became permanent after a Tuesday night SFMTA board vote, though a dozen others will lose their Slow Street status, and six hours of public comment furor swayed the board to keep the Richmond’s Lake Street a Slow Street.
SF News Muni’s New Battery Electric Buses Are Being Spotted in the Wild Look ma, no wires! Yet another new fleet of Muni buses has arrived, so keep your eyes peeled, because you may notice the new battery electric buses as they continue in their evaluation and testing phase.
SF News The Central Subway Has a (Kind Of, Sort Of) Opening Date! It’s Saturday, November 19 The November 19 opening date is not the real grand opening of the long-awaited Central Subway, but it’s the beginning of weekend-only service that will initially be free, and real everyday service is vaguely scheduled to begin “by January 2023.”
SF News Electrical Fire Investigation Into Central Subway Could Further Delay Its Opening A June electrical fire inside the long-delayed Central Subway system was a lot more dangerous than we’d realized at the time, and its aftermath may push the Central Subway’s opening out to 2023 — a full five years past its original opening date.
SF News Still Four Years Behind Schedule, the Central Subway Will Now Open Two Months Later Following a small fire that damaged some electrical equipment in one of its stations, the super-extra-delayed Central Subway project has just tacked on another delay of six to eight weeks, meaning it won't be opening in October.
SF news Muni Stopped Citing People for Fare Evasion During the Pandemic. So What Were We Paying Those Fare Inspectors To Do? Muni basically stopped enforcing fare violations during the pandemic, issuing merely 325 citations during a two-year period. Yet they still employed 43 fare inspectors full-time, which seems perhaps a waste of money?
SF News The 21-Hayes Returns Saturday, Along With Previously COVID-Canceled Buses 6-Haight-Parnassus and 2-Sutter Three semi-major Muni routes that have been on mothballs for nearly two and a half years will return Saturday, with many other lines being extended back to pre-pandemic levels, and transit lovers are planning a 21-Hayes party.
SF News Photos: SFMTA Celebrates First In-Person Muni Heritage Day in Two Years With Free Rides on Vintage Vehicles This past weekend, the SFMTA honored Muni Heritage Day by offering free rides on some of the city's historically significant (and rarely ridden) buses and trolleys to the delight of droves of public transit nerds — a first since the pandemic began in March of 2020.
SF News Why Is This Prop A Ballot Measure Asking for Another $400 Million for Muni? An Explainer The SFMTA and Mayor Breed are asking SF voters to approve a $400 million Muni upgrade bond measure to lift it out of the floppy disk era, and oddly, tech companies are writing huge checks to get this thing passed.
SF News Body Found on Tracks In Visitacion Valley Was Person Struck By Muni Train; Victim May Have Been Dragged After the SFPD put out the vaguest of vague reports about human remains found on rail tracks on the south side of San Francisco Sunday night, more details are coming to light and the SFMTA is admitting that this person was hit by a T-Third train.
SF News Brace Yourself — Another Large ‘Red Bus Lane’ Construction Project Starts Monday, This Time on 16th Street The same concept from “the mess on Van Ness” is being applied to 16th Street, and is expected to take more than a year to complete, but in this case at least Phase 1 of the project was pretty much completed on time.
SF News Muni Ridership Hits 67% of Pre-Pandemic Levels on Weekends, 54% on Weekdays Much as BART has seen a return of riders a bit moreso on weekends than during commuting hours on weekdays, the SFMTA is reporting a similar pattern on Muni buses and trains — though one bus line is now at 133% of its pre-pandemic riders.
SF News One Month In, SFMTA Says Van Ness BRT Slashing Trip Times By Up To 35% Was it worth many years of construction and hassle? The SFMTA has the early numbers on the new Van Ness bus lanes, and says they’re cutting down trip times and leading to a boom in 49-Van Ness ridership.
SF News Report: Central Subway Opening Likely to be Delayed Yet Again, Might Not Happen This Year Stop us if you’ve heard this before! SFMTA says the Central Subway to Chinatown is on track to open September 9, but a federal monitor, and everyone not on the SFMTA payroll, says we’re looking at December or well into next year.
SF News No Fooling! The Van Ness Rapid Transit Project Will Be Completed April 1 SFMTA is confident enough that they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re already scheduling the ribbon-cutting and party ceremony, and after nearly 18 years of red tape, the red lanes will finally have buses cruising through them.
SF News J Trains Return to Downtown Tunnels as Muni Slowly Comes Back to Life After two years of mostly abbreviated service, SF Muni lines are nearly all back and up and running at near pre-pandemic levels. And this weekend marks the return of Sunday night service until midnight, and the return of continuous J-Church service to Embarcadero.
SF News You Can Now Be Sent a Text Warning That Your Car Is About to Be Towed In SF San Francisco has just launched a first-of-its kind program that allows car owners — in certain illegal parking situations — to avoid costly tows via a text warning. But some warnings might only come a few minutes before the car gets towed.
SF News Latest Count: 836 SF City Employees Unvaccinated, 60 Police Officers on Leave Monday was the deadline for full vaccination for all San Francisco city employees, and the city has already begun the arduous process of holding due-process hearings for all those individuals claiming religious and medical exemptions.
SF News SFMTA Announces a Few Temporary Route Cutbacks Due to Unvaccinated Drivers on Leave As forewarned earlier this month, Muni is having to curtail some bus service due to a number of drivers who have refused to be vaccinated, or who will not be fully vaccinated by the November 1 deadline — but the route cutbacks are fairly minor.
SF News Most Muni Bus Routes Will Likely Be Restored By Spring; J-Church Riders Unhappy About Having to Transfer The SFMTA announced the next step in its process to restore Muni service to near pre-pandemic levels, with a proposed plan to restore five out of seven of the currently suspended bus routes by February or thereabouts.
SF News Muni Service Could Be Impacted Around Outside Lands Weekend If Unvaccinated Muni Drivers Don't Get Shots The SFMTA is warning of possible service cuts in the coming weeks due to the still large number of transit operators who have not reported being vaccinated — with the city's deadline for all city employees to be fully vaccinated approaching on November 1.
SF News SFMTA Says They Need $625 Million to Fix the Cable Cars While the SFMTA did receive $1 billion in federal stimulus money, spending more than half of it on just cable cars seems foolish, so expect the agency to put a tax measure on the 2022 ballot.
