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
SF News Mission Street Changes Have Drivers Seeing Red, Could Be Revisited Before They're Finished As predicted, the freshly painted red transit-only lanes up and down Mission Street, which are being implemented along with other changes in a $3.8 million project, have resulted in confusion and consternation
SF News Muni Adds Service On Multiple Lines Starting This Month Listen up everyone who complains about Muni: Starting April 23, the SFMTA will begin rolling out a huge set of changes to the service that we all love to hate (yet depend upon
SF News Major Proposal To Remove I-280 Overpass And Caltrain Rail Yard Moves Forward A proposed (extremely expensive) plan, first floated last May, to remove the existing Caltrain rail yard as well as parts of the I-280 overpass and off-ramp in SoMa/Potrero in anticipation of electrified
SF News 30,000 Abortion Opponents To Descend On San Francisco Saturday Assuming their flights into town weren't canceled or their buses don't get stuck a rainstorm, as many as 30,000 people opposed to a woman's ability to terminate her pregnancy will descend upon
SF News As Of Friday, You'll Be Paying Even More To Ride BART We warned you about this in April, but now it's here: BART prices are going up again, as of Friday, January 1, 2016. According to BART, this week's fare increase is part of
SF News For 16th Year In A Row, Muni Will Be Free On New Year's Eve New Year's Eve may be known as "amateur night," but the professionals at Muni are also on the clock that evening — and they're giving it up for free. "We wish all San Francisco
SF News Muni Will Never Suck Again, Now That Their Long-Standing Driver Shortage Has Ended The headline says it all, you guys! The dog days are over, and Muni has transformed into a swiftly-moving chariot, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Did you notice? In a
SF News San Francisco Will Have America's Worst Traffic Today In what can only be described as a dubious honor, a big data traffic and transit prediction company has crowned San Francisco's metropolitan area as the US's busiest city for the-day-before-Thanksgiving traffic. "We're
SF News Marvel At The Athletes Running In The SF Marathon, But Don't Expect To Drive Anywhere Where Bay to Breakers is San Francisco's fun road race, Sunday's 38th annual SF Marathon is our serious one, for hardcore distance runners who want to test themselves against inclines that "make the
SF News This Scenario-Based Transit Map Will Change Your Commute Now in its third beta, a comprehensive San Francisco transit map heralded by The Atlantic's CityLab has the power to take a starting point in the city and estimate how far you can
SF News Muni To Debut Mobile App Payment System This Summer SFMTA just announced that you can start counting the days, if you want, until the introduction of a mobile payment app. This summer (exact date TBA), your phone becomes your ticket to ride,
SF News Meet The 55-16th Street, A Proposed New Bus As part of the Muni Forward initiative, a brand new bus route has been proposed for 16th street. The line, which would be numbered 55, would overlap with some 22-Fillmore service on 16th
SF News Major Delays After Woman Leaps In Front Of BART Train [Updated] BART is experiencing major delays this morning, after a woman was fatally struck by a train. According to BART spokesperson Alicia Trost, service at San Leandro Station was halted on reports of a
SF News 'Obstruction On Track' Temporarily Closes BART Between S.F. And East Bay [Updated] According to an alert from BART, there will be no train service between San Francisco and the East Bay for at least a half an hour around Noon on Tuesday due to an
Arts & Entertainment Map: San Francisco, Arranged By Transit Time Today in maps: Peter Dunn of Stone Brown Design has created this time-scaled map of Muni, BART and Caltrain, all arranged by how long it would take you to get to commute to
SF News Possible BART Strike Looms This Week or Next BART employee unions are coming up on another expiration of their four-year contracts on July 1, and like they did in 2009 and 2005, they are again threatening to strike. But is the
SF News Muni Turns 100 Today, Gives Out Free Rides Whoopty doo, Muni celebrates 100 years in operation today. If you can actually succeed in riding a Metro train or bus to work this a.m. despite reduced service this week and the
SF News Bay Area Transit Mapped In Trippy Time-Lapse Video Using the same publicly available data that feeds into Google's General Transit Feed Specification, transit-obsessed YouTube user STLTransit has created a trippy time-lapse video showing the movement of every Muni bus, BART train
SF News BART Turns 40; Will Hand Out Free Tickets, Ice Cream Once upon a time in September 1972, just as President Nixon was vehemently denying any involvement with the Watergate break-in and Maude was premiering on television, BART was born. The Bay Area Rapid
SF News SFMTA Gets Federal Grant for 18 New Buses The SFMTA just got a $21 million federal grant, most of which they'll be putting toward the purchase of eighteen 40-foot biodiesel-electric hybrid buses to replace a fleet of 20-year-old buses that are
SF News High-Speed Rail Approved in Dramatic State Senate Vote After much hemming and hawing, the threat of lawsuits from NIMBYs on the Peninsula, and much spilt ink about the price tag, it looks like California will get a high-speed rail line after
SF News Oakland Once Again Contemplating Broadway Streetcar Line For the second time in the last ten years, the City of Oakland is initiating a study to look into the feasibility and potential economic-development opportunities that would come from a streetcar line
SF News New BART Cars Will Be Expensive, Built Offshore As you may know, BART is getting set to lay out an enormous amount of cash on a new fleet of 775 rail cars, and the price tag keeps going up. Matier &
SF News High-Speed Rail Could Now Cost a Whole Lot More? We're starting to wonder if this whole high-speed rail thing is just a pipe-dream we'll tell our grandkids about when they ask why they still have to drive up and down I-5 to
