SF News Check ‘Em Out! We Have Our First Renderings of the Second Transbay Tube A longtime BART fan fantasy is coming to life, as a second Transbay Tube gets its first proposed public renderings, though there are a couple proposals, and it probably won’t be operating until 2040 at the earliest.
SF News Unlicensed Drivers Behind California Shutdown Of Ford-Owned Chariot, Which Resumes Service Today After jitney service Chariot abruptly shut down its San Francisco service last week, speculation ran rampant on the cause of the closure. But now we know the reason: Multiple drivers with the company
SF News SFMTA Cracks Down (Sort Of) On Chariot, Other Private Buses It’s been a bumpy ride for the tech-loving private shuttle service Chariot, which arrived three years ago to make “transportation better only for some people” in the words of Muni Diaries. Chariot
SF News Chariot Chastised For Blocking Muni Stops, Could Be Slapped With More Regulations Tech bros nationwide were served with comeuppance Wednesday, with widespread mockery of the glorified vending machine Bodega and Martin Shkreli’s ass getting sent back to jail. But techies were also taken to
SF News [Update] BART Service Between Oakland And SF Restored As System Recovers From Downed Power Line Madness at West Oakland #bart station. Hundreds of pissed off riders. #CaseOfTheMondays pic.twitter.com/wBc48JlDy6— Eman (@Flipsican) March 27, 2017 An ongoing BART service interruption between San Francisco and the East Bay
SF News Driver Who Entered Duboce Muni Tunnel Could Be Fined $55,000 For Big Oopsies A renegade car that entered a Muni tunnel last month at Duboce and Church Streets — well-lit "DO NOT ENTER" sign be damned — will face a fine of $55,000 to pay for the
SF News Recent Oakland Sinkhole Was So Large That CHP Nicknamed It 'Steve The Sinkhole' Certain larger-than-life phenomena like San Francisco's fog or Fenway Park's left field wall demand personification, names like Karl and The Green Monster, respectively. Along those lines, Oakland's California Highway Patrol took a moment
SF News Chinese Bike-Share Outfit Warned Not To Drop Thousands Of Bikes On SF Streets Without Permits Chinese bike-sharing startup Bluegogo may have to backpedal on its plans to expand to San Francisco. City officials are warning the company not to proceed without permits and perhaps to the detriment of
SF News J Church Train Stops Just Short Of Fallen Tree In Dolores Park .@sfmta_muni J line isn't going anywhere pic.twitter.com/yYjmbmAJDA— Diego Ongaro (@ongardie) January 11, 2017 Mother nature was busy trimming trees last night with heavy winds and rain. At around 7
SF News Update: BART Service Outage Between 24th St. And Colma After Two Trains Hit Tree Limb 24th Mission Street Station Chaos. #SFBART #BART #SF .@SFBART pic.twitter.com/b5tlV3lUXz— Charlie (@PerKerry) January 11, 2017 Under heavy winds during rush hour this evening, a BART train struck a large tree
SF News Wildly Inaccurate Muni Wait Time Predictions Will Continue For Weeks In Major Glitch Predicted arrival times on NextMuni signs at transit stops and on NextMuni/NextBus apps are particularly daunting this week — 85 minutes for the N Judah? — and wildly, totally wrong. To blame is a
SF News Packed Trains, Slow Commute After Disabled Train Halts BART Service To SF That one time #BART was completely insane due to plateform 1 shutting down. pic.twitter.com/jwg6tQLhzk— Keith Ellwood Baker (@KeithEllwood) January 6, 2017 A disabled train in West Oakland halted BART service
SF News BART Bolts Swinging Doors Shut To Stump Fare Evaders, Unimpressed Fire Inspector Says Stop A quick fix to the problem of fare evaders on BART has been shut down just as fast as it was implemented. That was a decision by the transit agency to bolt closed
SF News Caltrain's Twitter Account Is Sassy As Hell @mlroach @isaach We were doing sassy Twitter before it was a thing.— Caltrain (@Caltrain) March 19, 2016 It being 2016, every #brand has come to the conclusion it needs to have a personality.
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 Rose Pak Vows City Hall Blockade To Stop Stockton Street Pedestrian Mall 2NITE on @CBSSF 5 #RosePak will block SF #MTA and #cityhall if Stockton closure goes through -more w @philmatier 6pm pic.twitter.com/w8mBauENik— Phil Matier (@philmatier) August 8, 2016 Chinatown organizer and
SF News SFMTA Proposes Revoking Some Mission Street Safety Improvements Following Merchant Complaints The months-long effort from a vocal contingent of merchants and Supervisor David Campos to undo the recent safety and Muni-focused Mission Street changes has borne fruit, as SFMTA officials yesterday announced that they
SF News Perma-Locked Muni Seats Are Free To Sit In At Last For more than two years, some seats on Muni buses have been perpetually in the up position, locked and unusable. The move was made to limit liability after the company that builds Muni
SF News Reminder: Weekend BART Closures Start Tomorrow And Will Impact SFO Trips As we mentioned earlier this month, BART will cease service between Glen Park and Daly City for a host of weekends over the coming months as it works to replace and repair track.
SF News Alleged DUI Driver Smashed Onto BART Tracks, Snarls Wednesday Commute For the "pics or it didn't happen" crowd. pic.twitter.com/VpbknN5lWi— SFBART (@SFBART) July 21, 2016 BART riders who needed the cross the Bay were left cooling their heels for over an
SF News Brace For BART Snarls: Shutdowns Between Glen Park And Daly City Begin This Month Prepare yourselves, BART riders who expect to travel south of San Francisco between July and October. If you're headed out on a weekend, you should expect delays, disruptions, and more, as BART will
SF News Fire On SF Tracks Snarls Thursday Morning BART Commute, Empties Glen Park Station Up to 20min delays on BART after a debris fire on the tracks this morning pic.twitter.com/6iFmIIEAJ0— Matthew Zamudio (@neutralcolored) June 30, 2016 BART travel ground to a halt in San
SF News Mission Street Transit-Only Lane Meeting Devolves Into Shouting Match Originally 50 chairs set out, now doubled.Standing room only, 150+ @sfmta_muni meeting at Mission Cultural Ctr. pic.twitter.com/JEKj5uhdOZ— LolaLolaLola (@Lola_Casanova) June 21, 2016 As is becoming the norm
SF News Muni Is Getting A New Fleet Of Train Cars, Starting This Year Starting this year, Muni is set to begin receiving the first of its 260 new rail cars. Some of the trains, which the Chronicle reports are made by German company Siemens and are
SF News Mission Street Businesses Say Transit-Only Lanes Are Putting Them In The Red While Mission Street's new, bright red transit only lanes, reserved for buses and taxis, have so far confused and angered drivers between 11th and Randall, they've got a new enemy in some local