SFMTA

Why do the J and the K turn around at Balboa and head back downtown the way they came, rather than continuing on each other's alignments? Wouldn't the service be more useful if, even if they had to pause for a few minutes at Balboa to maintain schedules, the two lines were combined?

Roughly seventy safety advocates donned yellow t-shirts and stood on the edge of the bike lanes along Townsend Street at the King Street Station yesterday evening to demand safety upgrades.

A hit-and-run driver slammed into a pedicab yesterday on the Embarcadero near Pier 29, sometime before 5 p.m., injuring a family, including two children. From the Fire Department's news feed, the victims sustained "serious injuries" and included a "five and an eight-year-old." It was later clarified that only the pedicab driver sustained life-threatening injuries, according to a report by CBS.

A push is on to get more people biking in the Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhood of San Francisco.

Today was the first day of the two-month planned closure of the Twin Peaks tunnel, temporarily shutting down all rail service between Castro, Forest Hill, and West Portal.

Streetsblog tipster and advocate Brian Coyne brought this to our attention: "SFMTA's Sixth Street Safety Project, which Streetsblog has covered several times over the last few years, has now had the bike lane component removed." The plan, as shown on the agency's project page, is now to remove the bike facility and add an additional northbound car lane to the design.

SFMTA's new fine structure has some safe-streets advocates fuming.

This spring, as part of the Muni Forward project, the city installed two new traffic circles and two new signals on McAllister Street to improve the performance of the 5 Fulton bus.

The needs of transit riders must come first during the Twin Peaks tunnel summer shutdown