SF News Today in Transportation -The Chron discovers that there's plenty of fare-evading scofflaws out there in MUNI land. And not only that, it's one of the reasons for MUNI's budget deficit. Anyways, yadda… yadda… yadda… increasing the
SF News A Hella Good Fight Over a Helipad First the details. In 2003, the San Francisco’s Health Commission approved a plan to build a helipad on SF General. The target date for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was 2005. It
SF News The N Judah Kept a-Rollin' The advantages, according to the Examiner (who talked to frequent SFist commenter Greg Dewar of the N-Judah Chronicles)? Service to Caltrain will no longer be the domain of the most popular line MUNI
SF News MUNI By the Numbers Anyways, the Chron did a story and discovered that MUNI has a lot of problems right now, mainly that it's on time only 70% of the time. That's 15% lower than mandated by
misc Ist-travaganza! We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be
SF News Your Commute: Fight! We can't decide if we're sorry we missed this, or if we're extremely grateful that we take BART to work in the mornings. So around 7:30 a.m. this morning, an SUV
SF News Red Light Means What Exactly? Now the thing about this is that in the last year and a half, there have been eight crashes at the intersection, all caused by red light runners. Last July, a four year
SF News Downtown Train Now that the T-Third is up and running, we can all start focusing on the next big MUNI project, the central subway. This is a proposed underground that would go from near the
SF News The Meters Jam The Chron says that while the meter's don't take in enough money, tickets do. Or at least in relation to other cites. Here comes the numbers: last year people plunked in about $29.
SF News BART Extensions The money comes from the California Transportation Commission and is more than half the $700 million that the Valley Transportation Authority needs to do the engineering on it. In fact, the engineering has
SF News ...And They Have a Plan In order to do this, we'll need to do things like go bike riding instead of driving, use car pool lanes, plant more trees and keep those trees that we have from dying,
Arts & Entertainment Octavia Boulevard: Recent beneficial changes You've read last week about the concerns raised over the intersection of Octavia and Market. Today, we thought it would be interesting to check things out after Friday's protest to see if driver
SF News Driveway Parking What does this have to do with anything other than being one of our favorite stories? Well, there's been an influx of driveway parking, especially in the Richmond, and Supervisor Jake McG wants
SF News Your Commute: Onwards and Upwards to Phase II MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2
Arts & Entertainment Octavia Blvd. protest, support for injured cyclist This morning a crowd of over 100 protested against the dangerous intersection at Octavia and Market Street. The injured cyclist is still hospitalized after being struck by a large pickup truck making an
SF News Stuart "Fare Hike" Sunshine Fails Upward, Lands in Mayor's Office We don't have anything funny to say about this one -- we're simply at a loss. Rumor had it yesterday that Gavin picked Stuart Sunshine to be his new Deputy Chief of Staff,
Arts & Entertainment Octavia Blvd: A dangerous illegal turn every 3 minutes. Yet another morning commuter makes an illegal right turn onto the new freeway onramp at Octavia this morning. Monday's serious accident at the intersection of Octavia and Market is focusing attention upon drivers
SF News Stuck on a Tarmac You Can't Get Out Of Says Kate Hanni, one of the passengers, "there were people getting ill, the toilets did begin to overflow." We've done a lot of flying and can thankfully say, we've been through some bad
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Cool Web Sites For the Day First up is Menutopia. Ever want to go to a restaurant but not sure if they'd have anything you'd like? Or want to plan ahead in advance? You could go to Citysearch but
SF News Bikes on Octavia As a result, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is not happy. Not happy at all. They are demanding something to be done about that particular intersection at Octavia and Market Street and to
SF News More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction
SF News Cabalicious Turns out that one of the biggest complaints members of the Taxi cab commission hear is that there isn't enough cabs?. Really? So the obvious answer is adding new cabs, as well as
SF News Travelling Riverside Blues On Friday, a judge ruled against the union but said that the city could redact or black out personal information as they see fit. If this was the Bush administration, that would mean
SF News Your Commute: One If By Land, Two If By Sea If you were planning on taking the Oakland/Alameda Ferry, officials are recommending you take the Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry which obviously goes to Alameda. Thus the name.
SF News T-Third Comes In a Little Short MUNI doesn't even appear to be aware of the issue, or at least not until ABC 7 pointed it out. Talk about embarrassing. There are things they can do to fix it, mainly
