SF News Community Members Push Closing Golden Gate Park To Most Cars With the June death of 41-year-old Heather Miller likely on the minds of some, community members gathered Saturday at Golden Gate Park’s County Fair Building to propose different approaches the city of
SF News Muni Hacker Hacked, Turns Out He's Extorted Ransoms From Multiple US Companies While questions persist about how much and what kind of data was compromised in the hack of some 2,000 SFMTA computers last weekend, a network security researcher says that he successfully hacked
SF News [Update] Muni Hacked For 100 Bitcoin, Questions Arise About What Data Was Compromised The hacker responsible for all those free Muni rides over the weekend is asking for 100 bitcoin (about $73,000) in exchange for unlocking the affected Muni computers, as the Examiner found out
SF News SFMTA Issues Final Report On Proposed Tech-Shuttle Hubs Ahead of a November 15 SFMTA Board of Directors meeting to discuss the predicted effects of reducing the number of tech-shuttles stops across the city and changing the existing model to that of
SF News Fake Bus Facts Declare Muni Is 'Gluten Free' And More A photo posted by Peter Andrews (@peter_wine) on Nov 2, 2016 at 10:36pm PDT Gluten is probably the least of Muni's worries, but someone with a printer and a sense of
SF News Six Complain Of Injuries (Maybe?) After Driver Strikes Muni Bus Six people complained of minor injuries Thursday afternoon, after the driver of an SUV struck a Muni bus traveling through the Mission District. According to San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Baxter, the
SF News SFMTA Staffer Nabs Market Street Stabbing Suspect A passing employee of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency helped detain a violently aggressive man Tuesday, following a bizarre midday stabbing on Market Street. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a
SF News New Marina Parking Restrictions Targeting Car-Dwellers Upset Homeless Activists Another in a long line of SFMTA measures restricting large vehicles from parking overnight on certain San Francisco streets was approved on Tuesday, this time focusing on the Marina. The Examiner reports that
SF News SFMTA Says Street Safety Improvements Are Actually Dangerous, Pulls Vigilante Crosswalk Posts Thank you @SFMTrA ! Westbound traffic visibly slower when crossing with kids today, and more walkers are using the intersection already. pic.twitter.com/DCULFK2qiV— Hum of the city (@humofthecity) October 13, 2016 Saying
SF News Map: San Franciscans Want New Subway Lines Pretty Much Everywhere San Francisco has some decent public transit, but huge chunks of the city are conspicuously under-served. Right now, for example, The Examiner tells us that only 25 percent of jobs are within walking
SF News Protesters Urge SFMTA Not To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak As she was in life, Rose Pak is controversial even in death. The local political power-broker passed away in September at the age of 68, and was quickly mourned and honored by the
SF News Map: SFMTrA Safety Vigilantes Install More Bike-Lane Posts Under The Cover Of Night @SFMTrA spotted! pic.twitter.com/SwwmS9ViXn— RadioChert (@ChertRadio) October 12, 2016 As promised, the anonymous individuals behind the vigilante pedestrian and bicycle safety group SFMTrA installed more bike-lane safety posts around the city
SF News Bike Lane Posts Installed By Safety Vigilantes Can Stay, Says SFMTA In news that will come as a surprise to many, officials with the SFMTA will not order the immediate removal of the semi-permanent safety posts installed by the safety activist group SFMTrA. Instead,
SF News Computer Glitch Blamed In Muni Crash, Other Braking Problems May Be Widespread Several people injured when #Muni bus plows into parked truck in Pacific Heights neighborhood of SF , @Artguy1 https://t.co/gdGDUzh1kU— Bill Hutchinson (@bill_hutchinson) October 3, 2016 On Monday morning a 3-Jackson
SF News Tired Of Official Inaction, Safety Vigilantes Install Bike Lane Safety Posts A group of anonymous pedestrian and cycling safety advocates have upped their game in a challenge to city officials to do more, now, to make San Francisco streets safer. San Francisco Metropolitan Transformation
SF News Stanley Roberts Reminds Us Why You Should Never Drive During Dreamforce The four-day Dreamforce 2016 conference kicked off yesterday, bringing its usual hordes of lanyard-wearing conventioneers and SoMa traffic with it. And just like with any big event, KRON 4 reports that the SFPD
SF News As Bus Rapid Transit Construction Begins, Prepare For Van Ness To Become A Daily Nightmare Construction kicks off this month on the long-awaited, much-debated Van Ness BRT (bus rapid transit) project, in which the heavily trafficked boulevard is going to lose the two center lanes of traffic to
SF News SFMTA Paints Red Zone Around Woman's Car And Then Tickets Her Parking in San Francisco is of course a tricky beast. Sometimes it feels like the rules change around you — what was once a 72-hour zone now needs a neighborhood sticker, for example. Checking
SF News Ride Historic Trolley Buses On Long Lost Lines During This Weekend's Muni Heritage Celebration History buffs and lovers of all things San Francisco have a chance this weekend to get a taste of ye olden times by riding retired Muni electric trolley buses along routes that have
SF News BART Hopes To Use Clay To Seal Leaky Tunnels Known As 'The Rainforest' The section of tunnel is so consistently damp that BART maintenance crews call it “the rainforest.” As opposed to "the pricey real estate above," as BART writes, "BART’s tunnels in downtown San
SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News A Brief History Of How San Francisco Ended Up With Electric Trolly Buses Long before the environmental movement took off or anyone understood a thing about carbon emissions, a full 81 years ago, SF got its first emission-free electric trolly bus powered by overhead wires. As
SF News Underground Muni Riders To Finally Be Blessed With Cell Phone Service As long as there have been cell phones, riders of Muni's light rail system have been afflicted with the scourge of no bars (now dots, I guess) any time the vehicles plunged beneath
SF News Muni Still Isn't Sure How To Pay For Those Fancy New Trains They Keep Talking About We've been talking about Muni's glorious new light rail fleet for a while — in fact, it was over two years ago that we ran the numbers on the (at the time) $1.2
SF News Due To Faulty Counters, Muni Ridership Numbers Have Been Wrong For At Least Two Years According to automatic passenger counters, between fiscal years 2014 and 2015 ridership declined on Muni motor coaches by by 3.4 percent and on trolley coaches by 7.3 percent. Wait, what? Muni
