The Powell-Hyde Street cable car line shut down for the rest of the day today. The cable running beneath the car was "frayed," it seems. Frayed? That...sounds scary. We wonder if any cars have plummeted down one of our lovely hills due to frayed cables snapping. We hope not, but we wonder. Anyway, less aesthetically-pleasing shuttles buses will go along the route until the line reopens tomorrow.......

You know how the Bay Bridge is going to be closed on this Labor Day weekend? And how that means there'll be fewer car-trips into San Francisco? A reasonable person might assume that that'll mean an increased demand for public transit -- but Muni's response to that is, "reasonable people? What on Earth are those?" Not only is Muni not adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on......

--Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.] --An Oakland Tribune sports columnist apologizes for calling the A's racist. [92510; read the original column cached on Google here.] --Come to California, Barack Obama! [Calitics.] --A pedestrian was hit by an SUV at Folsom and Main. [A reader, who requested that we give you the link to WalkSF,......

Hey did you know that sometimes Muni makes mistakes? It's totally true! For example, you might not know this, but the launch of the T line was not without the occasional snafu. We refer, of course, to the confusion with the 54-Felton: according to a source at Muni, speaking on condition on anonymity, the 54 was re-routed onto Newhall to make room for the Third -- but nobody noticed that the new streets weren't......

Update: All Bay Area public transportation will be free tomorrow -- but does that means all public transportation, including MUNI and Caltrain and SamTrans? We think so, anyways. People who drove to Oakland today despite the warnings not to reported very light traffic! You don't say! Schwarzenegger is coming to tour the scene and do a press conference around 10:30 pm tonight. Oakland FD used water and not foam to fight the fire because......

UPDATE! Since this post went up 45 minutes ago, Muni has removed the apology from its site. We expect a new statement to be issued any minute, declaring that Muni regrets nothing, would do it all over again, and you'll never get me alive, coppers. It's not as good as getting the trains running on time, but it's a start. Muni leaders have clearly been in over thier heads for the last few days,......

One of everyone's least favorite things about BART is the lack of information provided when things go down. At the station, those little screens saying when and which BART is coming never actually let's people know if there's a problem. And on the platforms and on the trains, the announcement about what's up either is inaudible or sounds like one of those teachers in the "Peanuts" cartoons. So get this, BART actually is doing something about it. ...

Remember awhile back when we wrote about this website that lets you get NextMuni predictions via text-message? The downside was that it would involve some manual labor by the community to set it up. Well, delightfully, you've responded; after the jump you can find textmarks for the 5, 6, 21, 45, cable cars, and more. Muni's working on getting those LED signs up, but many stops don't have them yet and never will; so......

SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf form so many, but not all, of the links featured here will require Adobe Acrobat.) Average cost of items promoted in SFiS (not including ads): $399.91. Number of Catherine Bigelow columns: 6. (new recaps of Gordon Getty's birthday party, the Red Tie......

If you, like us, heard very stressed-out-sounding BART announcements on your commute home today about the Hayward BART station being closed because of a police action and needing to take Richmond trains to get to Fremont last night, that's because four people were shot in the area of the Hayward BART stop around 5:48 p.m. No one is dead, but one person was found injured on a platform and another in a bus zone (we......

Hey, the new MUNI T Third line is finally open! That's the new light rail route that goes (.gif) from Castro Station down Third Street, through Dogpatch, down the Bayview, past Monster Park, and all the way to Sunnydale Avenue. We decided to spend our day off today checking it out. The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about......

-The world's creepiest man, John Mark Karr, was brought in for questioning by the SFPD because on his way to a press conference announcing the dismissal of child pornography charges, he stopped his limo to go stare into the windows of an elementary school....

This just in ... the Glen Park BART station was shut down approximately an hour ago due to police activity, according to SF Gate. Seriously, it was not the "police activity" as described in the link above, it was just another suspicious package. We're always intrigued when we hear the announcements about "police activity on the BART system," because it could mean so many things, though we are so often disappointed because it usually turns......

Yes, folks, she writes about more than food! Contributing SFist Mary Ladd is concerned about San Francisco's Olympic dreams, and we can't blame her! We’re considering booking our dream vacation now if the Olympic Games will be in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles or Chicago in 2016. Maybe it's a chance to try apartment or home swapping. The prospect of Olympics in SF gives us pause. We have always loved living in the Bay......

How has your week in transit been? Ours has been pretty good -- we seem to have gotten on schedule with our current favorite N Judah driver, the guy who says makes announcements like "Muni loves you! I know all of you don't love Muni, but we love you! Don't forget your umbrella!" While we're never especially happy to go to work, because it's, you know, work, we love riding that guy's train. "Muni......

Man, we need some extra cash to get us through the weekend. We hate it when payday is on a Saturday! Our couch doesn't have cushions to harbor change (stupid Ikea PS), and Oprah's debt diet series has made us so afraid of check-cashing places that we cross the street to avoid them. (Tangent: Anyone else ever think that Oprah could solve all our debt problems on what she probably would have spent at Hermes?)......

For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the West Oakland station, and the subsequent crawling-rate of the trains as a result. (We had a weekly with us through the stop-and-go, so tomorrow's We Read The Weeklies will be unusually thorough as a result.) Turns out someone shouted out at the......

It's a good thing we had to shut down the labs last week, because it let us put off admitting that we were wrong a bit hasty in our dismissal of the Mac rumor sites. Not two weeks after we claimed there was nothing to the rumors of a home media-based Mac mini or an iPod boom box, Apple held a "special" event where the company announced an Intel-based Mac mini with better support......

Hey, didja hear about SF360's upcoming website? The SF Film Society and Indiewire.com promise that the site (to be launched in March) will offer a slew of new tools for local filmmakers and audiences -- "blogs, video blogs, photo blogs, event planning, announcements, virtual production offices, project-based LANs," the SFFS's Exec Direc Graham Leggat told us, but what he said next is what really grabbed our attention: "We don't have a revenue model for this."......

All the tech news this week is coming from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, where the giants of the industry are assembled to play the slots, get drunk, and convince you to give them more of your money. In addition to the multitude of cell phones, MP3 players, and increasingly ginormous plasma and LCD televisions, all the giants are making a commitment to downloadable content and video on demand. The keynote announcements from......

Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing -- the trademark white earbuds of the iPod sprouting from the head of our President. All the better to block out the sound of Iyad Allawi's cries to delay the elections in Iraq! Photo from a series on the private life of President Bush by Christopher Morris, link via the fine folks at Engadget. But even a tacit endorsement by the POTUS isn't enough to quell the......

The Giants announced today that will be helping out the tsunami relief effort by holding an online auction this Thursday and Friday to raise money. Things that can be bid on include throwing out the first pitch, a trip for four to spring training, taking a few swings at Giants pitching (hey, if it's Tomko you might be able to actually hit it), and other items. The big thing that will be auctioned off is......