Internal Bicycle Maintenance Class

By Aaron Bialick
May 30, 2011

From SFBC:

Over three weeks learn installation, overhaul, adjustment and maintenance of the bicycle’s bearing systems (headsets, bottom brackets and hubs), freewheels and cassettes. Info and tickets:http://bkjun2011internal.eventbrite.com

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Say Hello to Muni’s New Buses

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 3, 2013

Muni’s brand new buses are rolling in. The first of the 62 low-floor, 40-foot long hybrid New Flyer Buses purchased by the SFMTA are being prepped at a Muni maintenance shop, as captured by Dave Longa on Flickr. As we reported, the SFMTA plans to roll out 13 of these buses this month, followed by a roll-out […]

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More From Yesterday’s Hearing on Sunday Meters and Free Muni for Youth

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 18, 2012

The SFMTA Board of Directors yesterday approved a two-year budget that calls for parking meter enforcement on Sundays and free Muni passes for low-income youth. The budget must still be approved by the Board of Supervisors before it goes into effect on July 1. As Streetsblog reported yesterday, the SFMTA Board approved a free youth […]

Repair Bond Will Improve Streets But Doesn’t Solve Underlying Problem

By Nathanael Johnson | Nov 17, 2011

Last week San Francisco voters approved a $248 million bond to fix streets, which means the city will soon begin the largest repaving expenditure in its history. For the next three years, San Francisco will spend more than three times the amount it has normally budgeted for street repairs. Ninety million dollars will go to […]

Report Shows Muni Was Less Reliable and More Packed in Late 2009

By Michael Rhodes | Apr 26, 2010

In the final three months of 2009, buses broke down more often than in previous quarters. Flickr photo: WarzauWynn With grim news on most Muni-related fronts, including massive service cuts coming in two weeks, Muni managers also have to contend with a new quarterly performance report [PDF] that shows on-time performance suffering and more missed […]

How Will SF Fund the Sustainable Transport System a Growing City Needs?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2013

Within a few decades, San Francisco’s streets will be even more clogged with cars, more dangerous for walking and biking, and Muni will burst at the seams as more people try to get around. That’s the future city officials warned about at a hearing yesterday, painting a grim picture of traffic-choked streets if nothing is […]

Public works paved the roadway to the left, but left the bike lanes full of cracks, dangerous furrows, potholes, and other defects. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick unless noted.

City Lets Cargo Way Protected Bike Lane Fall Apart

By Roger Rudick | Jan 3, 2018

As cyclists who use Cargo Way in the Hunters Point/Bayview neighborhood know all too well, the bike lane, once celebrated as San Francisco's first on-street protected bike lane, is in a state of disrepair, with broken pavement, a dangerous, tire-grabbing groove, and a busted fence. And in a stark display of how some city officials regard bicycle safety, the city repaved the adjacent car/truck lanes in August, but skipped the bike lane.