SF News Disability Rights Advocates Sue BART For Broken, Gross Elevators, BART Blames Homelessness Crisis A lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court yesterday points out what any BART rider already knows: Elevators and escalators on the regional transit system are chronically broken or unusably filthy. But for
SF News Working Group Ponders Fate Of 22nd Street Caltrain Station The future of the Dogpatch/Potrero HIll Caltrain stop at 22nd Street is not assured, and according to Socketsite's speculation, "the odds of the existing Caltrain Station at 22nd Street surviving appear to
SF News Bluegogo Bikeshare Pulling All Cycles Scattered About SF Streets Oh and anther one!! But this #bluegogo isn't looking too hot 😨 pic.twitter.com/zJweXMi3mO— girlonabike (@girl_on_bike) March 26, 2017 Chinese bike share company Bluegogo caused quite a stir when it
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 To Keep Tech Shuttles Running, Companies Are Backing Moderate Candidates For Supervisor To ensure that tech shuttles can continue to roll along, business-as-usual, companies such as Salesforce and Y Combinator are among more than 24 contributors to a political action committee backing moderate candidates for
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 34,000 Passengers Per Day: Bay Area Shuttle Buses, By The Numbers Reactions to the plenitude of shuttle buses seen daily on the streets of San Francisco tend toward the qualitative. Convenient! Practical! Corporate! Evil! Instead, a data set submitted by local shuttle bus operators
SF News Shuttle Bus Operator Bauer's Adding 30 Vehicles To SF Fleet Despite Contested Muni Stop Permit Shuttle Bus operator Bauer's Intelligent Transportation, whose black, monolithic motor coaches carry employees from clients like Cisco, Zynga, and Electronic Arts, plans to add 30 vehicles to its already sizable fleet, expanding service
SF News Shills From Private Shuttle Service Chariot Are Now Proselytizing At Muni Stops Have you heard the good word? Chariot, the San Francisco network of shuttle buses that falls somewhere between the jitneys of yesteryear and the tech commuter buses of today, wants to make certain
SF News Only Three Out Of 20 Major Local Transportation Projects Are Fully Funded While individuals and companies arrive in droves to the Bay Area in search of funding, taken as a whole, the metro area is woefully behind when it comes to funding number of crucial
SF News Behold Valencia Street's New 'Bike Barometer' Valencia Street cyclist-counting machine, counting cyclists on Valencia Street:https://t.co/G0XTgJeofX pic.twitter.com/gPmoNs670O— Mission Mission (@missionmission) May 3, 2016 With the 22nd annual Bike to Work Day coming up
SF News Fanciful Renderings Imagine A Haight Street Without Cars In her essay "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," an investigation of life on Haight Street published in 1968, Joan Didion referred to a "center" that would not hold. While she was naming something more metaphysical,
SF News 'Ornery' Passenger Forces SFO-Bound Plane To Make Emergency Landing An unruly passenger prompted a flight heading to SFO to make an impromptu pitstop Saturday morning. Adding insult to injury, SkyWest flight 5345 had to land in Reno of all places. According to
SF News BART 'Upstreamers' Frustrate Lazier Commuters At Downtown Stops Presumably denizens of Powell Street BART, the staff of the Chronicle is officially hip to a transportation hack they're dubbing "Upstreaming." That refers to the practice of riding trains back a few stops
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Elevator Dial Hacked As NextBus Clock Software engineer and J-Church rider Rolf Rando has a steampunk solution to his Muni woes. "Living a hundred feet from the San Francisco (sic) MUNI ‘J’ line is a great convenience getting to
Arts & Entertainment Map: Tomorrow's Bike To Work Day Energizer Stations Grab your fixie and hit the road, kids. Tomorrow, May 8, is Bike to Work Day in San Francisco — the 20th anniversary, in fact. Whether pedaling alone or with a convoy, you can
Arts & Entertainment How To: Register Your Bike, In Case It's Stolen! Each year, an estimated 4,000 bikes are stolen in San Francisco. In an effort to help put a dent in that number, Safe Bikes asks you to register with them. It takes
Arts & Entertainment Get Free Stuff Simply By Walking To Work This Friday The best part about walking to work—save for those shapely calf muscles—is that you're at the top of the commuter chain. Others must bow down to your righteousness. You get throw
SF News Attractive Dames Used To Lure Drivers Over To Uber Town Car drivers and cabbies alike hear the siren song of Uber calling their names. And why not? Uber drivers could make $550 in a day including fares. In an effort to get
SF News Protesters Block Tech Buses. Again. Protesters blocked tech buses Tuesday morning, this time at Eighth and Market Streets and at other areas close to City Hall in San Francisco. Once again, Google takes the heat for not only
SF News Cool New BART Cars To Feature Bike Racks, Chartreuse BART's new railcars (teased in mid 2013) will, ideally, make your commute from splendid downtown San Francisco to unfathomable Pleasanton less harrowing. New bikes racks and differently-colored seating are just a few features
SF News S.F. Can't Profit From Shuttle Buses Monday saw an agreement between the SFMTA and the privately contracted shuttle buses that ferry tech workers up and down the Peninsula. But while the agreement marks the first government regulation of the
SF News S.F. To Start Charging Tech Company Shuttles Mayor Ed Lee and the SFMTA have reached an agreement with a coalition of tech companies whose behemoth employee shuttles have sparked protests for their use of public bus stops. Today, Lee announced
SF News Driver Hits Cyclist On Geary Boulevard Not a good week for those of us traversing the city sans automobile. Today, over at Geary and Arguello in the Richmond, a driver smacked a cyclist a little before 11:30 am.
