SF News The "No Duh" Story of the Day The study looked into the idea of creating bus only lines, either the center lane or outside lanes. One scenario envisioned would consist of two lanes towards the center with an island dividing
SF News If I Can Make It There, It'll Make it Anywhere Guess it's not that much of a nutty idea. Now because it's New York, it's instantly taken more seriously because it's New York and everything is taken more seriously there (damn East Coast
SF News Breaking News-- People Don't Pay Full Fares on Cable Cars This information was uncovered by the MTA's crack team of Muni riding Ninjas who rode the cable car forty-two times and took notes. The good news is that the Muni Ninjas didn’t'
SF News I Can't Drive 55 Here comes the numbers: while the number of collisions are down, the number of pedestrian fatalities are up. So, in other words, drivers don't hit other cars anymore, they hit pedestrians. The number
SF News Slanted and Enchanted So far, the bikers are completely on board. Both the SF Bicycle Coalition and the Bicycle Advisory Committee have offered support and are talking up Bike Class to teach bikers that riding on
SF News Everybody's Gone Sidewalk Parking The issue, like most things, is that there's not enough enforcement out there. Must be those lazy Gen Xers again, to concerned with playing video games to want to be a parking officer.
SF News "We recognize that the quality of service Muni has provided is unacceptable." UPDATE! Since this post went up 45 minutes ago, Muni has removed the apology from its site. We expect a new statement to be issued any minute, declaring that Muni regrets nothing, would
Arts & Entertainment Big Wheels, Bill Clinton, And You Hey, there's lots of stuff going on this weekend! And in exchange for telling you about it, we're going to ask again for a favor in return -- if you go to any
SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
SF News Death Race 2007 Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a
SF News The T-Third Line: Already Sucking In the Ex's story, Muni is already down six trains as those six have been benched due to collisions with cars and other vehicles. Oops. Muni is saying that when everything ramps up,
SF News Et Tu, Caltrain? For now on, it'll be about twenty-five cents extra per zone. So, if you cross, let's say, three zones, that'll be an extra $.75 cents added to your fare. 10-ride tickets and monthly
SF News There's a New Eleven in Town That's right -- 311 is doing the work that 511 promised but never delivered. Five-eleven still can't provide you with NextMuni info for buses, and you can't submit complaints about shoddy service; but
SF News Where Everybody Knows Your Name Oh wait, that's "Battlestar Galactica." Where were we? Oh yeah, so the question everyone is wondering is what's with all the homeless people who came here from elsewhere? Why do they keep on
SF News Cracking Down on Parking Scofflaws First up, cracking down on handicap placards. Turns out those handicap placards are all the rage these days, as they seem to be everywhere. According to statistics, the amount of those handy-dandy blue
SF News Don't Want To Leave, But We Both Know ... Sometimes It's Better To Go So goodbye, old fiend. Time to step down to open that back door in the sky. Muni's tribute: Public transportation on Third Street began as a horsecar line and converted to electric streetcar
SF News BART To Join 21st Century We love when public transportation officials have a light bulb go off over their heads. The first thing they want to do is to train the train operators to make their announcements more
SF News Why Does 511 Suck So Much? Get ready to go down a transit rabbit hole. Last time we wrote about the crapfest that is 511.org, one of our commenters placed blame on military contractors. So we dusted off
SF News BART Sells Out The ads are for Target and from what we gather, feature semi-naked women. Good thing they were specifically designed so BART operators won't be distracted. If the ads are a success, BART will
SF News Bad Day to Be Commuting While we were stuck in some really bad traffic this morning, we turned on the radio to get a traffic report and heard that we weren't the only ones having a rough commute.
SF News Can You Take Me To The Bridge? For those who do drive that particular section, Caltrans is going to reroute you to an entirely new set of lanes and supposedly, you won't notice much in the way of a difference.
SF News Nobody Walks in L.A., but Everyone Walks in San Francisco The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Silly Walks and based their findings on such things as "air quality, the percentage of people who walk to work, access to parks, number of
SF News What's Fair For the Haight Street Fair The complainers against the festival are the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association, the Cole Valley Improvement Association, the Waller Street Association and the Buena Vista Neighborhood Association. They're requesting that a beer garden is
SF News Up, Up and Away In My Beautiful Taxi The reason for all this is health care. The Taxicab Commission was tasked with the job of coming up with a health care plan for all of the drivers out there. The plan
SF News Get Me to the J Church On Time Starting on Monday, MUNI will roll out their improvement plan which mainly consists of actually fully staffing the sucker and having parking control officers actually enforce traffic laws. In other words, the plan
