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.
SF News What's a Splice? Explaining Why the Muni Metro Is Now Closed For the Rest of 2020 On Tuesday, Muni staff gave a report to the SFMTA Board in which they explained why the Muni Metro system collapsed and shut down again last week after reopening for just three days — and why light-rail trains now won't be running again until next year.
SF News SF Muni Operator Dies After Falling 'Severely Ill' While Driving, Crashes into Parked Cars on Noe Street The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced this afternoon that an operator has died following a Saturday morning crash on Noe Street; the driver had just recently celebrated his nineteenth-anniversary working for SFMTA earlier in August.
SF News Muni Train Service Halts Again Following Equipment Trouble, Key Personnel Testing COVID-Positive After only one weekday back in service, all Muni light-rail trains are going offline again for at least several weeks following an equipment failure on Monday, and a worker in the Muni Metro control center testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News First Weekday Of Major Muni Metro Changes Includes Overhead Wire Problem As of Saturday, August 22, Muni riders have been getting to see how some major changes are working on the Muni Metro train lines — and Monday morning all the new signs went up erasing the K and L lines from core-tunnel stations.
SF News SFMTA Director Speaks to New York Times About Agency's Dire Finances The SFMTA is on course to lose more than a half billion dollars in revenue over the next four years, and director Jeffrey Tumlin warns we’re seeing a “transit death spiral.”
SF News San Francisco's Iconic Cable Cars Likely To Stay Off the Streets Well Into 2021 Chalk it up to another — albeit temporary — casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. SF's beloved cable cars are going to remain offline indefinitely, likely until a vaccine puts a final end to the spread of the virus, and both operators and riders can be assured of safety.
SF News Muni Likely To Cut Many Bus Lines In Coming Years As More Commuters Turn To Cars Transit advocates and planners at the SFMTA are facing a grim reality that no one could have seen coming, and it may mean a permanent end for dozens of Muni bus lines.
SF News Muni Announces Major Light-Rail Changes As It Makes Plan To Restart Train Service In August The SFMTA is going to be significantly altering how trains run through the Muni Metro tunnels from West Portal through downtown San Francisco when the system reopens for business in August.
SF Politics SF Police Union Now In Twitter War With Muni Over Tweet About Not Transporting Officers to Protests Following some negative social media attention about using Muni buses to help transport cops in riot gear to quell protests, the SFMTA pledged to stop doing that in a tweet. Today, the San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) told the transit agency to "lose our number."
SF Politics SFMTA Reaches Truce With Supes, Agrees to No Muni Fare Increases for Two Years SF Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce that they have reached an agreement with SFMTA leadership to halt all Muni fare increases for two years.
SF News SF Street Sweeping Tickets Set to Resume on June 15 You’ve still got 10 days to move your car, but street sweeping tickets will resume their weekly nuisance to your routine on June 15.
SF News SFMTA Unveils Plan For More 'Slow Streets'; Muni Chief Discusses the Future of Public Transit on NPR The SFMTA has just published its amended plan for temporarily closing more city streets to vehicle traffic in order to allow more freedom for pedestrians, runners, and cyclists to occupy the roadway.
SF News Muni To Increase Bus Frequency On Eight Lines Starting This Weekend The SFMTA just announced that it will be boosting the frequency of buses on eight of the "core" transit lines currently in operation, in order to increase the ability of passengers to socially distance themselves from each other.
SF News As Muni Scales Back Service, Healthcare Workers Left Figuring How To Get To Work As the SFMTA shut down all but 17 of its 79 bus and train routes on Wednesday, riders who still need to move around the city — including healthcare and other frontline workers — are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks.
SF News Muni Bus Service Gets Majorly Curtailed; Riders Told To Expect Little Service Monday and Tuesday The SFMTA sent out an alert late Sunday telling all those who are still commuting by bus and anyone needing bus transportation to expect major delays Monday and Tuesday due to staffing shortages. And starting Wednesday, the entire system will be reduced to just 17 core lines.
SF News E-Scooter Companies Scoot, Lime, and Jump Halt Operations in SF; Spin Continues Running Scoot, Lime, and Jump are choosing to stop all operations in San Francisco over the COVID-19 pandemic. Of SF’s four e-scooter rental companies, only Ford Motor Company-owned Spin continues to run, promising to clean their scooters more often to provide "a safe ride."
SF News SF Man Gets Stabbed After Parking Car In Excelsior, Gets Parking Ticket While Hospitalized A San Francisco man has been fighting to have a parking ticket forgiven after the SFMTA issued it to him while he was hospitalized for a stabbing that occurred near his home in
Arts & Entertainment New SFMTA Chief Asks Comedian Ali Wong To Record Muni Bus Announcements Inspired by the New York City MTA using Queens native Awkwafina's voice on some train announcements, newly installed SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin is reaching out to SF native Ali Wong to do the same for Muni buses.
SF News Muni Underground Service to Stop After 9:30 p.m. in Late January For About a Week The SFMTA is undertaking another week (or so) of maintenance on the Muni Metro later this month, and this will mean no underground service for commuters leaving the office late or anyone trying to get home after dinner by train.
SF News A Car-Free Market Street Will Happen By The End Of The Month In a sweeping attempt to curb pedestrian injuries and deaths on Market Street, SFMTA announced that private vehicles won’t be allowed on the road starting January 29th.
SF News Here's How To Safely Get Around The Bay Area on New Year's Eve From free Muni and Caltrain rides to discounted cabs, here's how to traverse our slice of Northern California during the last New Year's Eve of this decade.
SF News It's Getting Easier To Rent E-Scooters In SF With Good Old-Fashioned Cash A handful of e-scooter providers are ardent about accepting cash payments for citywide rentals, widening their accessibility to the masses — who may or may not have a CVV number to their name.
SF News Expect Extra-Crowded Muni Trains As New Fleet Gets Taken Offline For More Repairs The SFMTA is warning commuters that trains could feel especially crowded Thursday as it takes all the new fleet of Metro trains offline for emergency repairs. Also, it's still raining, so...
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.
