SF News Your Commute: BART Delays; Fire In Embarcadero Just in time for the Friday commute -- a MUNI fire has closed the Embarcadero station. BART trains are going through without stopping, the Chron doesn't know what's going on with MUNI. The
SF News BART's New General Manager Is A Dame Gasp! After 11 hard, long years of phallic rule by Tom Margro -- who left to head the toll operation in Orange County, so let's all say a prayer for him -- our
SF News August Muni Payout: $131,695.06 The biggest payout is $47,500 to a guy who broke his ankle when the bus lurched forward before he could sit. Ouch. The driver in question was Daniel Johnson, driver number 1324.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are no less than three fantastic music festivals all taking place over the weekend of September 14-16. What gives? And how do we choose? Since we live in the bay area, perhaps
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: MUNI vs. Pedestrian, Park Presidio Update Yellow police tape and a blue glove from a first responder at the northwesteast corner of the intersection of Park Presidio and Balboa We still don't know the cause of the fatal accident
SF News Ask Not For Whom Doyle Drive Tolls The city's been trying to get the money to fix the road for ages, and have finally gotten the feds to agree -- but the feds will only kick in money if we
SF News Oh, Praise The Lord: Look At What We Got At Embarcadero Station Today Oh, man. Timing is everything. This is better than gum. This is better than energy bars. Today we were given Advil Liqui-gels when coming out of Embarcadero Station. While we're uncertain as to
SF News We're Never Going To Get Translink But no! A BART official working on the Translink project has said, while they've got the system running for AC Transit, Golden Gate ferries and buses, and MUNI trains, he doesn't think MUNI
SF News 511.org: Still Incompatible with San Francisco In their August newsletter (sent out after a third of August has already passed), 511 is pushing four bulletins, all of which are useless unless you use a car: - There's new FasTrak
SF News Inauspicious Virgin Flight For New Branson Venture Oh, sweet irony. Citing reasons to get into the airline game, Sir Richard Branson of Virgin fame said, "the American airline industry is abysmal." That may be true, sir, but it looks like
Arts & Entertainment Help SPUR Some Transportation Conversation Want to hear and participate in a thought-provoking discussion about planning regional transportation? Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. you can head on down to SPUR's (a.k.a. the San Francisco Planning
SF News Megabus Megacheap The big draw are the $1 tickets (yes, you read that right, one dollar to go to LA) -- if you're one of the first four people to book on a particular bus,
misc MUNI Tales: 'That's Why It's Dangerous To Have Coffee On These Things' True story from a crowded J-Church this morning. We were sitting quietly, a little zoned out, holding the 20 oz. cup of coffee that we'd obtained at our neighborhood cafe with both of
SF News Your Commute: Meltdown! (Sorry, We're Not MattyMatt) Well, first and most importantly! -- SFist MattyMatt's started a new job so he's been pretty busy at work and hasn't had time to post lately, for all folks asking about him in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Today's Delicious Prize For Using Embarcadero Station We were rather pleased Monday, yesterday, and again today to be subjected to nice young lasses offering free gum to those exiting the Embarcadero Station on the corner of Market and Spear. In
SF News Now, Submitting to Government Monitoring of Your Transit Choices is Easier Than Ever! Recently-introduced website upgrades allow you to check your balance online, which is nice -- though an SMS-based system would be useful, too, since not all of us have gotten around to buying our
SF News MUNI Update: J-Church (No Longer) Dead...for Now SFist Dan reports that the J-Church "is dead from 18th Street/Church" and on. "Clusterfuck"ing and madness found at the site of transportation-free chaos. UPDATE: J-Church is up and running.
SF News Thirtysomething Strassner thinks that if we just implemented the BRT plan in Chinatown, the 30 Stockton will move much faster and thus alleviate all the complaints that have been fueling the calls for the
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a little tougher. This
SF News Your Commute: BART Tunnel Delays Fixed! Wow, they work fast at BART! When we started this post, there were 30 minute delays to cross the Bay, and by the time we finished, BART updated its reports to announce that
SF News Toilets and Tickets The Chron did the investigating thing and discovered that most BART bathrooms are on the disgusting side. Shocking, we know. The person who did all the investigating was Rachel Gordon who rode up
