SF News Yep... San Francisco's Cable Cars Are Still Out of Service Because of an "electrical issue" earlier in the week, San Francisco's iconic cable cars are currently corralled inside SFMTA's "Barn" — with still no operational date in sight.
SF News Smoke Alarm and Power Outage at Cable Car Barn Leads to Shutdown of All Cable Car Service An evacuation due to a smoke alarm at the SFMTA's cable car barn, and a subsequent power outage, led to a suspension of service on all cable car lines Thursday afternoon.
SF News New Muni Metro Extensions to Richmond District, Fisherman's Wharf Proposed by Staff Staff at the SFMTA presented proposals this week to construct a new Muni Metro line that would connect downtown with the Richmond District along Geary Boulevard, as well as extending the still-under-construction Central Subway to Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News M-Ocean View Trains Return Aug. 14 Along With Six Restored Bus Routes One more Muni Metro route is returning to service on Saturday along with a half dozen restored Muni bus routes, a new bus route for Lake Merced, and a bunch of route extensions and changes.
SF News Clang! Clang! Clang!: SF's Cable Cars Return to Service Today With Free Rides San Francisco's iconic cable cars return to limited service Monday for the first time in nearly 17 months, after a few weeks in which they were in testing and retraining mode.
SF News Traffic Snarl Alert: Mission and South Van Ness Intersection Will Be Closed to All Traffic Next Week About seven blocks worth of streets will be closed to traffic this coming Wednesday, and continuing til Monday, August 9, in the latest BS from the Van Ness BRT.
SF News Cable Cars Return For Testing and (Maybe) Free Rides San Francisco's iconic cable cars rolled back into testing mode on Monday, with a few operators reportedly offering free rides while the cars undergo weeks of testing, to the delight of locals and tourists alike.
SF News San Francisco's Cable Cars Will Be Free to Ride When They Come Back in August SF's iconic cable cars are set to return to limited service in August, and both locals and tourists will be able to ride them for free for the entire month.
SF Politics Free Muni Might Happen Under a Three-Month Pilot, But Maybe Not As Soon as Supervisors Want There's been an argument in recent months over whether or not to use this limbo moment as the pandemic fades to finally offer Muni rides for free. But can the system handle a sudden surge in ridership (if that actually happens)?
SF News Urban Carpool Lanes Coming to Lombard, Park Presidio In SFMTA Pilot Program San Francisco is getting the first ever urban carpool lanes in California on two busy stretches of roadway that lead to and from the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Muni Underground Returns May 15 With Full Service on K and N Lines Despite previous reports that we wouldn't see Muni's K, L, or M lines running in light-rail tunnels until early next year, the SFMTA has surprised us today with better-than-expected news — as opposed to the usual worse-than-expected updates they've become known for.
SF News SFMTA Installs Public Wi-Fi In Subway Tunnel, Completes Track Improvements Ahead of Metro Reopening In addition to new LED signs and public art now installed at SFMTA’s Church and West Portal stations, another notable update will help modernize those underground terminals: reliable access to the internet.
SF News Muni Now Saying N-Judah and Other Metro Lines Won't Return Until May or Later As of mid-January, the SFMTA was suggesting that the N-Judah might finally be returning to service this month or next. But no. Now it's looking like May.
SF News Muni Brings Back T-Third Train, Some Buses This Weekend; N-Judah May Return In February The Muni Metro system is slowly coming back alive, and you may have seen out-of-service trains getting moved around and systems being tested over the holiday weekend. Come Saturday, January 23, the T-Third Street line will be coming back into service, along with a few old and new bus routes.
SF News SFMTA Annual Report Shows How Ridership and On-Time Performance Have Inched Up But Remain Dismal The agency's budget is likely to be in the red for a long while unless the Biden administration decides to throw more money toward public transit, and in a newly released annual report, the SFMTA discusses ridership numbers and other metrics, as they stand.
SF News SFMTA Mulling a 20-MPH Speed Limit for the Entire Tenderloin Neighborhood The state usually sets speed limits, but the SFMTA has found a loophole by which they can lower the speed limit on many Tenderloin streets.
SF News Muni Plans Restart of Above-Ground Train Service in Two Weeks; Underground Service Delayed Until February or Later The SFMTA is taking its first baby steps toward reopening the Muni Metro, and those will begin with the December 19 restart of the J-Church line.
SF News SFMTA Considers Laying Off 22% of Its Drivers, Engineers & Maintenance Staff The San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority is potentially looking at laying off 1,000 to 1,200 of its staff in the next fiscal year, which would mean many Muni drivers and maintenance workers losing their jobs starting next summer.
SF News SFMTA Reveals Blunder In Twin Peaks Tunnel That Will Cost 'Tens of Millions of Dollars' The SFMTA brass got a talking-to from the Board of Supervisors this week about their inability to complete big projects on time and on budget — and the scolding came after the revelation of another blunder by staff.
SF News Upper Great Highway May Reopen to Vehicles Because of 'Unsafe' Traffic Conditions The Upper Great Highway — which has become a promenade for outdoor recreation and civic activism — could open up to cars again after the same SF supervisor who catalyzed its closure raised concerns that the uptick in traffic along nearby roadways has created "unsafe" conditions.
SF News Of Course the Central Subway Is Delayed Again, and Of Course the Pandemic Is to Blame The long-delayed, way over-budget Central Subway project connecting SoMa and Chinatown in San Francisco will not be finished construction before the end of the year, as was last promised. Not that any Muni Metro trains are running right now, but of course it won't.
SF News Four Years Into Van Ness Bus Lane Project, Red Concrete Gets Poured for Lanes SF residents are mostly confused, but also royally annoyed and angered, that the SFMTA's seemingly straightforward project to add bus rapid-transit lanes down the center of Van Ness Avenue has somehow taken four years.
SF Politics 'Better Market Street' Plan Being Dubbed 'Bummer Market Street' After Budget Concerns Nix Raised Bike Lane The dedicated bike lane is one of the elements that's been jettisoned in a revised Phase 1 design plan that was recently unveiled, reflecting the city's pandemic-year budget woes, and the Bicycle Coalition is especially livid.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Nominates Controversial Owner of Manny's to SFMTA Board Cafe owner, activist, and lightning-rod for leftie quarrelling Manny Yekutiel is London Breed’s new nominee for one of two empty spots on the SFMTA board.
SF News Appeals Filed Against SFMTA and SF Planning Department Put Roadblocks in Front of City's Slow Streets Program Among the few good things to come out of shelter-in-place — which we can collectively say that improved air quality is now no longer on that shortlist — SF's Slow Streets Program is a celebrated nicety. But the initiative is currently facing criticisms for not undergoing environmental review.
