SF News SFMTA Employees Are Nervous About Becoming Targets of Backlash Against Parking Crackdown Car owners without garages in SF are tensing up in preparation for an announced May sweep by the SFMTA's Parking Enforcement team, which is set to cover every district of the city in search of parking rule violators. But those parking enforcers are tense themselves.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFMTA to Do 'Intensive' Sweep For Parking Violations In May The SFMTA is going to be doing an "intensive" crackdown on parking next month; an East Bay rapper has been charged with robbery and false imprisonment; and Redwood City is looking to permanently ban cars from a section of Broadway.
SF News You May See More Muni Fare Inspectors on Buses This Year as SFMTA Vows Crackdown on Fare Evasion Some state bailout funds that are flowing to the SFMTA came with the condition that the agency do more to crack down on fare evasion. So you will likely start seeing more scofflaws getting tickets for not having proof of payment.
SF News Ambitious Potrero Bus Yard Affordable Housing Project Might Get Slashed From 500 Units to 100 Units As the SFMTA proceeds with their grand plan to modernize the 109-year-old Potrero Yard bus facility and build 500 units of affordable housing on top of it, we receive word that they may reduce that affordable housing component to barely 100 units.
SF News SFMTA Takes No Action on Changing Valencia Bike Lane, Despite Its Ongoing Controversies Despite a new lawsuit and a claim that SFMTA might move the Valencia Street bike lane back to the curbside, the agency’s board made no changes to the controversial bike lane at Tuesday’s meeting.
SF News SFMTA Claims New Valencia Bike Lane Is Safer, But They Might Bow to Pressure and Redesign It Anyway If you believe the SFMTA, the new Valencia Street center bike lane has been a smashing success. But businesses say it has smashed their revenues, and some bicyclists say it’s uniquely dangerous, so SFMTA is considering redesigning the whole thing.
SF News Muni Ridership Reached 71% of Pre-Pandemic Levels In 2023, With Some Bus Routes More Crowded Than In 2019 Ridership on Muni buses and trains was up to 86% of pre-pandemic levels on weekends last year, and up to 68% on weekdays, but revenue across the SFMTA remains down — and are these ridership numbers even real if people don't pay?
SF News Vintage 1956 Muni Bus Delighted Transit Nerds This Weekend at Duboce Park The good folks at Muni busted out a 1950s-era Muni Mack bus this weekend, and let transit lovers hop onboard and enjoy it in its fully restored glory, as part of a “120 years of SFMTA” exhibit happening over that the Harvey Milk Photo Center.
SF News Wily and Elusive Dog Gets Into Muni Tunnel, Disrupts Service and Evades Capture for Hours San Francisco commuters who use the Muni underground likely encountered some trouble Monday if they were trying to get home after 6 p.m., and it's because of what SFMTA officials said was a "determined and elusive" dog running in the downtown tunnel.
SF News New California Parking Law Could Trip Up Car Owners In SF If They're Not Paying Attention A new law that took effect on January 1 in California is going to mean that more feet of curb space in San Francisco is likely to turn red in the coming year — and even if it isn't painted red, drivers parking their cars will be expected to respect a 20-foot buffer zone near every crosswalk.
SF News Muni Redesigns Their Train Seat Layout Yet Again, With Double-Seats and ‘Butt Dimples’ Barely two years after the last seat redesign, the new Muni light-rail fleet is getting another redesign for its seats, with more double-seating and the butt dimples intact to comfort your ‘back door.’
SF News All Muni Fare Gates Will Be Open and Bus and Train Rides Will Again Be Free on New Year's Eve Riding Muni will be free again this New Year's Eve, giving you one less excuse for making poor choices and another option for getting home after partying this end-of-year holiday weekend.
SF News Amidst Continuing Furor Over Valencia Street Bike Lane, SFMTA Hints They May Overhaul It Last week, Valencia Street businesses protested the controversial center bike land and called for the scalp of SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin. Now Tumlin has published an op-ed hinting that they just might redesign the bike lane, maybe.
SF News A New Muni Mobile App Launched Today, and They’re Killing Off the Old App, So Use Up Your Old Tickets Muni’s new trip planner and digital ticketing app MuniMobile is now up, running, and available for download, and the old app’s being discontinued on January 15, so it’s time to use up any fares you bought on the old one.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Nightclub Amado’s Has Closed Permanently, Owner Blames New Center Bike Lane Eight-year-old Valencia Street bar Amado’s apparently closed for good over the weekend, with the owner blaming the street’s new center bike lane. To add insult to injury, the SFMTA just delayed its evaluation of possible changes to that bike lane.
SF News BART and Muni Getting Huge State Bailout to the Tune of $661M, But It Comes With Conditions After two years of talk of fiscal cliffs and the threat of service cuts, BART and the SFMTA have been thrown a lifeline in the form of state and regional transit subsidies — and the two agencies will be taking the lion's share of the money allocated to the Bay Area.
SF News Rollover Crash In Broadway Tunnel Involved SF Parking Enforcement Vehicle The vehicle that rolled over Wednesday morning in San Francisco's Broadway tunnel was a parking enforcement vehicle, and the SFMTA officer involved reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF News Dozens of Speed Cameras Planned in SF for Areas With ‘Known Risks’ Like Crashes and Sideshows Thanks to a new traffic safety state law, SF is getting 33 speed cameras, to be placed in school zones and areas with the highest crash rates.
SF News Valencia Street Center Bike Lane Causing Confusion, Exasperated Shops Say It's Ruining Business Add Valencia Street merchants to the chorus of people complaining about Valencia Street’s new center bike lane, as shops say it’s drastically cut their revenue, and transit advocates howl that it’s unsafe and counterintuitive.
SF News Newsom Gives SFMTA $3 Million to Clean These Damned Streets Before the APEC Summit With the global spotlight of the APEC conference about to shine on San Francisco in less than a month, Governor Gavin Newsom has kicked down a few million dollars in hopes of cleaning up SF streets and transit stops.
SF News Heads Up: A Stretch of Market Street Will Be Closed for Two Weeks, Starting Saturday For the next two weeks, several blocks of Market Street will be closed to traffic, and all vehicles will have to reroute off Market between Third and 11th streets, as a construction project begins Saturday.
SF News SFMTA Ticketing Stolen Cars, Not Checking Whether They’re Stolen Nearly 100 obviously stolen cars are just sitting in plain sight collecting tickets in San Francisco right now, and could be recovered today, but the SFMTA and police department are simply not sharing information with each other.
SF News Reminder: Muni Is Shutting Down the Twin Peaks Tunnel at Nighttime for a Week, Starting Thursday Riders of the K-Ingleside and M-Ocean View be aware, Muni is closing the Twin Peaks Tunnel every night for a week starting Thursday, and the Forest Hill and West Portal stations will close at 9 p.m. September 14-21.
SF News The 28R-19th Avenue Muni Line Returns From Its Pandemic Slumber On August 21 Muni riders who have business along 19th Avenue have a speedy old friend coming back, as the long-suspended 28R-19th Avenue line will be reinstated for service two weeks from Monday.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.