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Advocates Release Questionnaire Results and Endorsements for June Election
The San Francisco Transit Riders (SFTR) released the results of its "Ride the Vote" survey yesterday. It reveals the stated positions of the mayoral candidates and District 8 candidates on local and regional transit issues.
April 25, 2018
Advocacy Group Fights to Put the Transit Customer First
Imagine if the Bay Area's 27 transit agencies took the same tickets, billed passengers by the same rate for distance traveled, and all the rail, bus, and ferry systems operated under a single brand as far as the rider was concerned.
April 23, 2018
Update on 38 Geary Bus
The 38 Geary is probably best-known for its notorious overcrowding, bunching, and delays--problems the agency is trying to remedy with this project.
April 10, 2018
Better Market Street Open House
Bikes, transit, public spaces--city readies for giant Market Street makeover
March 12, 2018
Advocates Want City to Tweak Bus Boarding Island Design
Walk San Francisco, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and the Senior & Disability Work Group of the Vision Zero Coalition, are collaborating on bike lane designs and pedestrian safety measures.
March 8, 2018
Castro Muni to get a New Lift
SFMTA is in the process of adding the system's first elevator that will go directly from street to platform level, as part of a project to improve accessibility at Castro Station
March 6, 2018
Valentine’s Muni Malfunction Underscores Lack of Interagency Cooperation
A switch fault Wednesday left thousands of Muni customers delayed and peeved.
February 15, 2018
Regional Measure 3 Heads for the Ballot
Tolls on most Bay Area bridges will reach $9 by 2025 to raise $4.45 billion for transportation projects, if Regional Measure 3 (RM-3) is approved by voters in June.
January 25, 2018
Let’s Cut the Bars Between Muni and BART
If you commute by BART and Muni, you've no doubt been in the frustrating situation shown in the lead image. You get off your BART train at Civic Center or one of the other downtown stations, run up the stairs, tag out of BART, run across the mezzanine, tag into Muni, run back downstairs, and miss your train by seconds. At off-peak times, this can easily add twenty minutes to your trip. And thanks to the cage bars around the stairs, sometimes you actually get to see the train you're going to miss as you rush through this Habitrail for humans.
January 12, 2018
What’s going on with SFMTA’s 16th Street Transit Improvement Project?
The $67.5 million 16th Street improvement project, part of SFMTA's 'Muni Forward' plan to improve bus reliability and run times, is supposedly on schedule and on budget. But there's decidedly little to see on the street.
December 21, 2017