SFMTA

Last week it was a cyclist, this week a pedestrian

It's unclear if speed was a factor in this crash, lack of visibility due to blocked sight-lines, or, most likely, some combination.

Sacking Ed Reiskin won't accomplish anything without a paradigm shift in governance

Protesters highlight frequent disconnect between the city's talk and its actions

Bill Couch was riding his bike on Valencia Street, between 21st and 22nd, early on the morning of Tuesday, August 21, when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver. "I fractured seven vertebrae, broke two ribs, my left thumb, and underwent a severe concussion," he posted on Twitter a week after the crash, adding that he is, thankfully, expected to make a full recovery.

Scooters should be back in San Francisco in October

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K Ingleside, L Taraval, and M Ocean View commuters finally said goodbye to replacement bus service

The SFMTA Board of Directors approved the next step in the $35 million Geary Rapid project on Tuesday, which includes segments of red carpet, bus-only lanes between Stanyan and downtown. The rub: the SFMTA decided to allow privately run transit, including tour buses, tech-buses, and Chariot, to also use the lane (in reality, non-Muni vehicles of one type or another already use pretty much all the city's red-carpet lanes, more on that a few paragraphs down).