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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

What this means is that those of you riding any of the other lines have to switch from whatever train you're riding to the T Third line. You can transfer any stop between

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SFist Tonight watches Infamy

Tonight, learn about graffiti street artists as SF360 Film+Club returns to Mezzanine to celebrate the URB Next 100 Issue with a screening of Doug Pray’s film, Infamy. The film is an

The T-Third Line: Already Sucking

In the Ex's story, Muni is already down six trains as those six have been benched due to collisions with cars and other vehicles. Oops. Muni is saying that when everything ramps up,

Et Tu, Caltrain?

For now on, it'll be about twenty-five cents extra per zone. So, if you cross, let's say, three zones, that'll be an extra $.75 cents added to your fare. 10-ride tickets and monthly

BART To Join 21st Century

We love when public transportation officials have a light bulb go off over their heads. The first thing they want to do is to train the train operators to make their announcements more

Up, Up and Away In My Beautiful Taxi

The reason for all this is health care. The Taxicab Commission was tasked with the job of coming up with a health care plan for all of the drivers out there. The plan

SFist Answers: Bono & Sickness

Please, for your sake, send Questions you want Answered to [email protected], and we will do our best to provide. That means you, Justin. Ahh, here we are: Q: A: It certainly

Today in Transportation

-The Chron discovers that there's plenty of fare-evading scofflaws out there in MUNI land. And not only that, it's one of the reasons for MUNI's budget deficit. Anyways, yadda… yadda… yadda… increasing the

The N Judah Kept a-Rollin'

The advantages, according to the Examiner (who talked to frequent SFist commenter Greg Dewar of the N-Judah Chronicles)? Service to Caltrain will no longer be the domain of the most popular line MUNI

Cycling: Stage 6 Belongs to CSC

Levi Leipheimer successfully defended his gold leader's jersey yesterday in Stage 6 of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California (TOC), but it was Team CSC that commanded everybody's attention. Refusing to concede a

Your Commute: On Fire. Seriously

There was an evacuation of trains on the Fremont and Dublin-Pleasanton BART lines after a fire at a substation knocked out power to part of the system. The fire started at about 10:

Cycling: Elevation Profile like an EKG in Stage 3

It was poetry in motion out there in Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, like a ragged stream of consciousness. Hills, . . . hills-hills mark the stage most crucial to date, elevation profile

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Not So Fast, Chronicle

The revelation that the leaker was defense attorney Troy Ellerman might have gotten Williams and Fainaru-Wada off the hook, but it put the Chronicle on it. See, the problem is that the leaker

MUNI By the Numbers

Anyways, the Chron did a story and discovered that MUNI has a lot of problems right now, mainly that it's on time only 70% of the time. That's 15% lower than mandated by

Your Commute: Sucky

We've also had reports that MUNI was having problems downtown this morning. Best part of a problem downtown is that it affects every MUNI train so everybody is screwed. Nothing like shared misery.

Your Commute: Onwards and Upwards to Phase II

MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2

Swells By The Numbers

More balletomania! We've read so much coverage of the 74th SF ballet opening night gala, we're starting to expect to see ourselves in these pictures! Number of people pictured in this week's Swells

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Your Commute: Riding The T Third

The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on

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Martin Luther King Day Events

There's a whole bunch of events going on today, most of which are either happening now or have already started. We would have gotten to this post earlier, but like a lot of

Caltrain Wants To Go Green

The agency wants to use Electric Multiple Unit (or EMU) trains. The trains work by having each car generate it's own power. Besides the above-mentioned benefits, these trains are easier to maintain and

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<i>Top Chef</i>: Mamma Mia, There She Goes . . .

Hey, folks! Been a while! But since we only post our thoughts on Bravo's on the day a new one's coming out, this review is anything but fresh. Hopefully it'll help you recall

Your Commute: BART Gets Off the Good Foot

Anyways, the cause was actually a cover board, the metal that covers the third rail, came lose at the West Oakland station around 7:15 so they could only run one train at

SFist Rita's 2006

From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the

Your Commute: Unflappable

Look how disappointed this YouTube poster is that no one paid attention to him sitting on the ceiling of the BART. (3:06, but half of the clip is just the same footage