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Halloween Headlines: Cops, BART, Parking, Protests, Funerals

Heads-up: MUNI changes due to torch run

Vehicles Plucked from Money-Hemorrhaging Culture Bus Line Gather Dust in Muni Yard

Ridership will not arrive today. Maybe tomorrow. Last week, the local papers -- and blogs -- wrote their latest round of stories about how Muni's Culture Bus program is blowing through money faster than a meth addict with six girlfriends. This, along with "What are those bastards at AIG doing with o ... More >>

The Sims: Student Edition

Ridership will not arrive today. Maybe tomorrow. Last week, the local papers -- and blogs -- wrote their latest round of stories about how Muni's Culture Bus program is blowing through money faster than a meth addict with six girlfriends. This, along with "What are those bastards at AIG doing with o ... More >>

Profits for Developers Initiative

Take a closer look at this truly awful measure funded by Don Fisher before signing on

Porkmistress Pelosi

Madam Speaker says she wants to tame pork-barrel spenders. Takes one to know one.

Missed Connection

The multiuse Transbay Terminal project may have shrunk into a really expensive bus station

Clang, Clang, Clang Went the New Subway

The billion-dollar Central Subway transportation plan may collapse under its own expanding weight

Gridlock

Bill Lieberman, new planning director for the Municipal Transportation Agency, wades into the swamp of San Francisco transit politics

Bus Stopped

How an attempt to make the 38 Geary bus work became another senseless San Francisco social cause

Unnatural Gas

"Environmentalists" make bad transit worse by insisting Muni buy alt-fuel buses

Willie's Wild Ride

The Transport Workers Union contract with Muni is up for renewal, and TWU boss Larry Martin says that anybody who wants to roll back the union's cush work rules, lucrative salary structure, and handsome trust fund is a "racist" and can go to hell. Meet t

So, the Disabled Cable Car Has Been Replaced With a Bus (Again). Do You Still Need to Fork Over $5 To Ride It?

Call the bus! A disabled cable car is towed up California Street.Imagine the disappointment: You trek to San Francisco from Paris or Prior Lake or parts unknown hoping to ride on our city's iconic cable cars. And yet, upon reaching your destination, you discover that the cable cars are on the fritz ... More >>

Bay Area Flush With Exciting Plans to Blow Money on Useless Transit Projects

The ongoing slow motion debacle that is San Francisco's Central Subway just got a little competition from across the Bay -- last night the BART board approved a $550 million version of the Disney monorail to connect the Coliseum station and airport. While we're outspending our East Bay neighbors by ... More >>

Civil Rights, Transit Advocates Urge BART to Abandon Half-Billion Dollar Airport Connector

The community groups whose advocacy led to the federal government threatening to withhold $70 million from a planned BART connector to Oakland Airport moments ago made their case that the project is a costly boondoggle that does nothing for the poor and minority communities living near the airport ... More >>

The Muni Death Spiral

Your transit system is terribly inefficient, extremely slow, and wildly expensive. Here’s how you can fix it.

Obama in San Francisco -- Will it Ruin Your Commute?

San Francisco voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. And now it's changing around its bus routes for him, too.​President Barack Obama will today return to the city where he made reference about small-town folks "clinging to their guns and religion." When he leaves San Francisco, he hopes to be cli ... More >>

Nancy Pelosi's Libertarian Opponent, John Dennis, Imagines Privatized Sidewalks

John Galt, er, Dennis, for Congress.​Nancy Pelosi's Republican opponent to represent her San Francisco congressional seat is the subject of a Chronicle profile today claiming he "runs to the left of" the House Speaker.But John Dennis, who says he's raised $2 million to unseat Pelosi, is a "Liberty ... More >>

Richmond Blogger Proves Power of the Press

Believe it or not, more service​It's not often that Muni gets good press. So here it goes. As the Examiner reports today, Richmond resident Aaron Kitashima was sick and tired of the crappy and non existent bus service along 48th Avenue. So he did what every pissed off person does -- he complained ... More >>

Outwalking Muni -- the Story That Never Gets Old

Jim HerdSometimes walking is the only option​If you haven't read Will Reisman's recounting of his attempt to outwalk the 30-Stockton, you should -- it's nice that the Examiner is allowing its talented staff to express its creativity via a means other than unearthing novel synonyms for "criminal." ... More >>