misc Know-It-Alls Form Taxi Group, Formulate Plan to Claim Vague Accomplishments Of course the real question is: how can you, the average Joe, meddle and interfere with this process? Well, you can't. Not much. The MTA is soliciting applications for the "Taxi Advisory Group,
SF News Scene from a Civic Center Station Muni Platform Taken at the Civic Center station, this (bloodied) gentleman came off an inbound train early this morning and collapsed. Anyone know what happened? Is he OK? Poor guy.
SF News Bart/Muni Bans Segways What with gas prices soaring, Segways -- those two-wheeled, self-balancing, electric scooter-ish type vehicles -- have seen a boom in sales recently. One Segway sales person in Oakland have seen sales triple over
misc It's a Beautiful Day to PresidiGo Fortunately, there's another bus that you can take to the Presidio -- it's free, it's comfortable (big soft comfy seats!) and it even runs on natural gas. It's called the "PresidiGo," and it's
SF News UPDATE: Raw Footage of Muni Train Crash KTVU has some choice footage of last Saturday's Muni crash over on King Street near AT&T Park. Since major news networks inexplicably don't believe in the religion of Embedded Code, we
SF News Muni Driver May Have Felt the Need, the Need for Speed Last Saturday's T-Third meets N-Judah collision might be, according to to investigators, might have been the result of a speeding Muni driver and/or someone chatting on their cell phone. KCBS reports: Investigators
SF News Two Trains Running: Muni Lines Collide An astonishing twelve passengers were sent to the hospital on Saturday after a T-Third train slammed into the back of a two-car N-Judah. The accident happened near AT&T Park on King
SF News A Safer Muni Ride: SFMTA Gets Millions Your daily commute just got safer. Well, hopefully. The Office of Homeland Security just awarded the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) a crisp $7 million "to improve security and public safety on
SF News Accident Snarls K/T Muni Line We received word this morning that a collision, possibly a motorcycle-meets-Muni accident, is blocking the T and K lines near Bayview. 511 has this to say: On Thursday, June 12th at 8:10am,
misc Gavin Newsom to Attend to Muni's Greatest Challenge: Banging Two Pieces of Metal Together Here at SFist, we are not impressed with percussive instruments. Calling a drum circle "music" is like calling crosswalk stripes "a painting." But there's something sort of impressive about an experienced cable car
misc Muni's 2008 APTA Rail Scandal: Not Actually All That Scandalous On one hand: saying "welcome" is good manners, and the APTA thing -- a big transit conference -- is kind of prestigious. The main highlight, according to a Muni press release, is a
SF News TXT MYMUNI KTHXBAI Since your Editor's cell fell down the toilet while chatting and evacuating a pressing stream of urine at the same time, we cannot try out this allegedly nifty feature. But according to Amit
SF News SFist: Muni's Guide to this Weekend Wants You To Get Drunk, Exercise It's going to be a busy, warm, and wily weekend. First, the Asian Heritage Street Festival, which takes place on Saturday, May 17 from 11:00AM to 6:00AM, around Japantown will result
misc Muni's Guide To The Weekend: Inline Skating Marathon And More Loads of delightful events are happening this weekend: street fairs, charity walks, tequila, inline skating appreciation, and more. Here's how SF transit plans on handling the merriment: Bay Bridge Construction Closure Beginning 1:
SF News Muni's Guide to Thursday: May Day, May Day Tomorrow's ILWU March for Workers starts tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. "after assembling at 10:00 a.m. at the ILWU Hall on Beach Street." The march is expected to head east
misc Google Relieves Your Muni Frustrations Unfortunately, for just about any trip we could think up, the driving times were always dramatically shorter than the transit times, so this isn't exactly encouraging people to give up their cars. Le
misc You Cannot Has TransLink This is possibly the most ballsy example of reverse-psychology advertising we've ever seen. (With the possible exception of their "memento mori, Vawanda" campaign a few months ago.) You've got a rolling billboard at
SF News Day Around the Bay For your viewing pleasure, more Pelli Clarke Pelli Transit Bay Terminal renderings -- now with birdies! [Curbed] More memories. [WhatImSeeing] Alt-Weekly Death Watch explains it all. Also: ouch. [AWDW] Cyclists mourned. [SFGate] Technical
SF News J-Church Accident this Afternoon Awhile back, Greg wrote that he didn't want The N Judah Chronicles to become the "let's all talk about people getting hurt and killed blog." Alas, the injury count seems to have gone
misc Yes! That's Right! You Have a BART! myBART sends out a free weekly email full of entertainment news, ticket giveaways and big discounts to events happening close to BART stations. Holy crap. A transit agency ... that actually provides you with
misc It's Time to Take Translink out Behind the Barn and Shoot it The impossible Translink dream has been stumbling around like a rabid possum for so long that it's sometimes hard to remember how disastrous it's been. But for years, it's always been ready. Just
misc Breaking Muni News is Mostly a Bunch of Blah Blah Blah Gavin: Nat is as frustrated as everybody else. We want change on the margins. Eliminating bus stops. The line I take down polk never has more than 10 people; It takes 10 minutes.
misc Unlike 511.org, We're Never Too Busy for Transit BART will be there to do a presentation, and Caltrain, and NextBus, and the MTC; they'll be joined by a ton of eager software developers and UI designers and social-engineering-types. Will Muni be
misc The Central Subway: It's Gonna Be Terrific! Once category that doesn't appear to get much evaluating is the agency's competence to operate the subway once it's built. But that was never in doubt, was it?
