SF News One Month In, SFMTA Says Van Ness BRT Slashing Trip Times By Up To 35% Was it worth many years of construction and hassle? The SFMTA has the early numbers on the new Van Ness bus lanes, and says they’re cutting down trip times and leading to a boom in 49-Van Ness ridership.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: It's Van Ness BRT Ribbon-Cutting Day! The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit lanes opened for service this morning, the Tenderloin remains a nightmare at night, and a shooting outside a San Jose high school on Thursday caused some trauma for students.
SF News Van Ness BRT Will Indeed Be Running April 1, After Years as a Running Joke A weary San Francisco has learned to roll its eyes at any announcement of progress on the Van Ness bus lane construction project, but the Van Ness Improvement Project really will have its grand opening in less than a week.
SF News No Fooling! The Van Ness Rapid Transit Project Will Be Completed April 1 SFMTA is confident enough that they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re already scheduling the ribbon-cutting and party ceremony, and after nearly 18 years of red tape, the red lanes will finally have buses cruising through them.
SF News Traffic Snarl Alert: Mission and South Van Ness Intersection Will Be Closed to All Traffic Next Week About seven blocks worth of streets will be closed to traffic this coming Wednesday, and continuing til Monday, August 9, in the latest BS from the Van Ness BRT.
SF News Scathing New Report Details Why Van Ness Construction Went Years Past Deadline, Way Over Budget Now three years beyond its original deadline and nearly $40 million over budget, the so-called Van Ness Improvement Project apparently went off the rails because we started digging without knowing what was underneath.
SF News Four Years Into Van Ness Bus Lane Project, Red Concrete Gets Poured for Lanes SF residents are mostly confused, but also royally annoyed and angered, that the SFMTA's seemingly straightforward project to add bus rapid-transit lanes down the center of Van Ness Avenue has somehow taken four years.
SF News Peskin Leads Coalition To Save Van Ness Streetlamps (And Delay Bus Rapid Transit Plan) A fight that's supposedly about the character of Van Ness Avenue, which some might call a contradiction in terms, is heating up further as Supervisor Aaron Peskin announces a "Coalition of Save the
SF News As Bus Rapid Transit Construction Begins, Prepare For Van Ness To Become A Daily Nightmare Construction kicks off this month on the long-awaited, much-debated Van Ness BRT (bus rapid transit) project, in which the heavily trafficked boulevard is going to lose the two center lanes of traffic to
SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News Day Around The Bay: State Bird Has Some Advice For AL's Place State Bird Provisions executive chef/owner Stuart Brioza spoke to San Francisco Magazine to offer a few words of advice to AL's Place, given that he has some experience with being named Bon
