SF Politics Multiple Transit Directors Nationwide Reportedly Turned Down SFMTA Job A few days after learning that Mayor Breed had named her pick for SFMTA chief, we're hearing that a few people with more direct experience leading urban transit agencies may have scoffed at the job after seeing how Breed treated Ed Reiskin.
SF News Mayor Appoints Stone Cold Fox Jeffrey Tumlin To Lead SFMTA Mayor London Breed has named her selection for the new director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and while very qualified he's also pretty hot.
SF News Muni Apologizes For Diverting Bayview Buses For Chase Center, Offers Free Rides Muni got called out Tuesday night after the supervisor who represents the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods found out that bus drivers were being siphoned away from the bus lines that service those neighborhoods in order to cover the new event-night shuttle routes for the Chase Center.
SF News OMG: The Central Subway Has Been Delayed Again, Pushed to 2021 The Central Subway now will not be opening until mid-2021, a full three years behind schedule, and a year and a half later than we were last told. Construction isn't even set to be finished until the middle of next year, and then a year of train testing begins.
SF News Somebody Warn The Tourists: Cable Cars To Go Offline For 10 Days In September San Francisco's cable cars are all going out of service for ten days next month as part of a gearbox rehabilitation project — and anyone coming to town and hoping to take a ride on one will be sorely disappointed, and offered a bus ride instead.
SF News Mission Residents Protest Audi Dealership Claiming Test-Drivers Are A Menace A group of residents who live around the Audi dealership at 14th and South Van Ness staged a protest on Saturday saying that the dealership too often lets customers go on test-drives in which they allegedly reach unsafe speeds for the area.
SF Politics SFMTA Votes To Name Chinatown Station For Rose Pak, Despite Protests After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
SF News City To Ban Vehicle Traffic On Octavia Next To Patricia's Green One half-block of Octavia Boulevard is going to become a pedestrian- and bike-only zone, once and for all cutting off the busy freeway-connected "boulevard" portion of Octavia from the quieter Octavia Street that continues north.
SF News Muni Debates Overhauls To Poorly Designed Subway Rail System The roots of Muni’s incessant Metro train delays date back 40 years to the tracks' original design, and the SFMTA is debating fixes for the flaws, including "pocket tracks" for disabled trains.
SF News Mayor Appoints Task Force To Recommend Muni Fixes Ahead Of Hiring New Director Mayor London Breed, in her continued frustration with the SFMTA, has put together a working group to review all Muni service and recommend changes, months ahead of hiring a new agency director.
SF News SFMTA Wants Your Input About Extending The Central Subway Past Chinatown Want to take a train from Union Square to the Presidio? That could be an option. Someday.
SF News Public Invited To Comment On SFMTA Search Process For New Director The SFMTA's Search Committee for a new Director of Transportation is convening Tuesday, and the public is welcome to attend and comment — though your complaints about rush-hour meltdowns, etc., might best be left for meetings of the full board.
SF News Central Subway Likely Won't Open Until February 2020 The scheduled opening of the Central Subway, which was supposed to be in December, has been pushed back once again to February of next year, according to the latest progress report.
SF News Muni Chief Ed Reiskin To Step Down Following Friday System Meltdown Bowing to pressure from the mayor and others, the SFMTA's transit chief of eight years, Ed Reiskin, announced Monday that he would be stepping down in August.
SF News Supes to Withhold $62 Million In Funding Until Muni Can Figure Out Why Train Doors Are Closing on Passengers After a train door closed on an elderly woman and dragged her for an unwanted ride, the supervisors will unapprove millions for new trains that they approved
SF News New Muni Train Door Trapped Woman's Hand, Dragged And Injured Her The billion-dollar fleet of the future has doors that lock on objects and people, and have already dragged and hospitalized an elderly woman.
SF News None Of SF's Red-Light Cameras Are Functional Right Now The cameras that are supposed to snap your photo and send you a ticket if you run a red light in San Francisco haven't been functional for months, as the former, deteriorating camera system was shut off ahead of a planned replacement.
SF News Driver Fatally Strikes Man On Sloat Boulevard A 45-year-old man was fatally struck by a driver Halloween night, killed as he walked across Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco's Parkside neighborhood. According to San Francisco Police Department Sergeant Michael Andraychak, the
SF News SFMTA To Refund Drivers For Overpaid, Double-Charged Traffic Citations And Tickets This is going to sound like one of those class-action lawsuit radio ads, but: have you paid the SFMTA for a parking, street cleaning, or traffic ticket recently? It's possible you could be
SF News Take A Video Tour Of Muni's Newest Trolley Buses What's got 60 feet and no gas? Muni's new trolley buses, one of which hit the streets of San Francisco this week. This is according to the SFMTA, which on their MovingSF blog
SF News Pricey Retro Streetlights Coming to Van Ness Avenue In November The on-again, off-again lights inspired by ca. 1915 street design are back on again, after being nixed by the SFMTA and the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. Matier & Ross reported in the
SF News Unlicensed Drivers Behind California Shutdown Of Ford-Owned Chariot, Which Resumes Service Today After jitney service Chariot abruptly shut down its San Francisco service last week, speculation ran rampant on the cause of the closure. But now we know the reason: Multiple drivers with the company
SF News Private Shuttle Service Chariot Temporarily Shuts Down Just days after the SFMTA passed some new regulations overseeing the city's emerging jitney scene, the one remaining private shuttle bus company has abruptly shut down operations. Ford-owned commuter shuttle Chariot announced the
SF News New Muni Trains To Start Service Before End Of The Year, Finally After cutting off night and weekend service for a month this summer in order to complete testing in the Muni underground system, the SFMTA has announced that they're expecting to put some of
SF News Where In SF Are You Most Likely To Get A Parking Ticket? According to numbers crunched by a local parking app, drivers in the Financial District, in the Civic Center area, and in the Inner Richmond and North Beach are most likely to get ticketed
