SF News Giant Lake Emerges at 24th and Mission After Water Main Break In Public Works Project Things are going to be very unusual at the 24th and Mission Muni stop this week and next, as a Public Works project resulted in a large body of water gushing up at what is normally a 14-Mission and 49-Van Ness stop.
Arts & Entertainment Muni Is Truckin’ Grateful Dead-Themed Buses for Next Weekend’s Big Dead & Co. Concerts Your next Muni vessel might look like an LSD sunshine daydream, as the 7-Haight/Noriega, 5-Fulton, and N-Judah lines now have these psychedelic themed transit vehicles to whisk people to and from Golden Gate Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Is Updating Its Floppy-Disk-Based Train Control System Muni is beginning the $700M project to upgrade its antiquated train-control system; a planned new nightclub in the Castro has been scrapped; and Sam Altman says he feels just "fine" about Mark Zuckerberg poaching his employees.
SF Politics BART and Muni Secure $750M Loan From State Along With Other Local Transit Agencies Some proposed cuts to transit funding are off the table, and Bay Area transit agencies including, primarily, BART and Muni, will be receiving a lifeline in the form of an interest-free loan from the state in the upcoming budget.
SF News Muni Service Cuts Kick In Saturday, Five Bus Lines Getting Their Routes Trimmed The 21-Hayes will cease to be, effective this Saturday, getting merged into a new line called the 6-Hayes-Parnassus, as five Muni lines are getting their routes snipped in hopes of cutting SFMTA’s ballooning budget deficit.
SF News Man In Wheelchair Fatally Stabbed on Muni In SF’s Bayview-Bernal Heights An elderly man in a wheelchair was fatally stabbed aboard a Muni bus in SF’s Bayview District near the edge of Bernal Heights on Sunday afternoon. The suspect was arrested nearby and is now in custody.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: SF LGBT Center’s Building the Block House Party This weekend: Scenes from Carnaval and Chinatown Pride. Last week: A BART wedding, a Muni tram, a Seth Rogan rom-com, and AI bots on the fritz; This week: book festival, menstrual dignity day, pro-wrestling, and SF LGBT Center block party.
SF News Muni’s Boat Tram and Other Vintage Streetcars Begin Their Summer Return to Service Today Oh boy! The streetcar known as Boat Boi is among the vintage Muni streetcars that will be back in action for the summer months starting today, and there’s a real-time map where you can track which of your favorites are running, and where.
SF News [Updated] SF Muni Recovers After 'Debris' Issue Closes Downtown Stations There was no Muni underground service between Embarcadero and Van Ness stations Wednesday afternoon, following a maintenance problem that is apparently centered at the Embarcadero end.
SF News SFMTA Lays Off 12 Senior Managers, And It Sounds Like There May Be More Job Cuts to Come The SF Municipal Transportation Agency that operates Muni just canned 12 of its senior managers in a reorg effort to tackle their massive deficit, and that reorg might mean more layoffs in the near future.
SF News Muni Subway Service Halted and/or Delayed After Person on Tracks at Castro Station A situation at Muni's Castro Station Monday afternoon involving a person in the trackway is likely to delay both inbound and outbound service in the Muni Metro tunnel.
SF News Someone in Sacramento Is Selling an Old Muni Bus for $8,000, Has 'Only 41,608 Miles' On It You could be rocking down the road in your very own Muni bus for the low price of $8,000, and the seats are ripped out so it can serve as some sort of vacation RV party ride, just be warned that it “might need new batteries or a jump start.”
SF News SFMTA Board Approves Sweeping Muni Service Cuts To Take Effect This Summer Six Muni bus lines will either be consolidated, or have their Market Street service eliminated, as the SFMTA Board of Directors voted Tuesday to lop off some Muni service in an attempt to put a dent in the agency’s budget deficit.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Muni Ridership at 75% of Pre-Pandemic Levels Muni ridership as of March is at 75% of pre-pandemic levels; a child died in a "non skiing accident" at a Tahoe resort; and there was a memorial service Monday night for the Oakland teen killed two weeks ago.
SF News Amidst 'Fiscal Cliff’ Panic, Scott Wiener Introduces BART and Muni Funding Package As fears set in that BART trains would run just once an hour and Muni might cut frequency by 50%, state Senator Scott Wiener is proposing a funding package to save them, but it involves voters approving a new sales tax.
SF News Muni Forever Campaign Provides Action Plan For Voicing Feedback On Service Cuts By April 1 About 250 people showed up to last week’s Muni rally, and while the board made a preliminary vote in favor of service cuts, the public's involvement has motivated Muni to reduce the severity of proposed cuts while also gaining support from local politicians.
SF News Five Muni Bus Lines Will Likely See Changes, Turn Around at Market Street, Starting In June The SFMTA has been threatening to make service cuts as they struggle to avoid a financial cliff, and those cuts are now likely being made real on five Muni bus lines, starting this summer.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Posts Awkward Video Reading 'Nice Muni Emails' Modeled on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" segments, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has posted a video to social media in which he's reading nice emails the city has received about Muni drivers.
SF News Transit Groups To Rally Against Muni Service Cuts At City Hall On Tuesday Local community groups will be rallying in front of City Hall next Tuesday morning prior to SFMTA’s board meeting in the afternoon when the board will make its final decision on Muni service cuts.
SF News Saturday Links: Tesla Driver Arrested For DUI After Crashing Into Muni Train, Destroying Transit Stop A Tesla driver who crashed into a Muni train was arrested under suspicion of driving while intoxicated; helicopters have been banned from Washington DC airport; and a Walnut Creek nine-year-old is the youngest person to complete a BART speedrun.
SF News Woman Stabbed In the Neck on Muni Train In SF's Bayview A woman was stabbed and left with life-threatening injuries Tuesday evening on a T-line Muni train in San Francisco's Bayview District.
SF News SFMTA Announces More Proposed Muni Service Cuts, Chopping Parts of 5-Fulton, 9-San Bruno, and 31-Balboa The Market Street components of the 5-Fulton, 9-San Bruno, and 31-Balboa would be lopped off under a proposed new batch of Muni service cuts, and there could be more bad news for 6-Haight-Parnassus and 21-Hayes riders.
SF News Muni Is Free This Weekend, Because SF Really Doesn’t Want You Driving During NBA and Chinese New Year Events The blockbuster combination of both the NBA All-Star Game and the Lunar New Year Parade in SF this weekend has SFMTA making Muni free on Saturday and Sunday to limit traffic gridlock, and the little-used Chinatown Subway and T-Third will be in the spotlight.
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Iconic 'Worm' Logo Turns 50 Muni's beloved "Worm" logo, created in 1975, remains an endearing icon of San Francisco's rolling hills and urban identity.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lawrence Livermore Lab Partners With OpenAI Muni subway experiences mid-morning technical issues and delays; S.F. man charged with hate crime and assault over Tenderloin garage incident; and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory tests OpenAI's AI models in hopes of streamlining its fusion research.
