Subject: Muni Metro

• Heads-up: MUNI changes due to torch run

  April 9, 2008

• Everything's Coming Up Rose's

  April 10, 1996

• Weekly Obsessions

  Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 15, 2004

  December 15, 2004

• Muni's Mack Daddy

  James Robinson used to be a pimp. Now he's a transit union bigwig. And he's got higher ambitions.

  June 4, 2003

• Dog Bites

  Details, Details; Problem Is, It's Hard to Read in the Dark; PG&E Strikes Back

  April 18, 2001

• Best Local Newscaster

  May 17, 2000

• Cothran

  June 23, 1999

• Rewarding Failure

  Streetcars that are too wide, long, and heavy (136 @ $3.5 million per). Bus engines that don't fit and are scrapped (20 @ $116,000 a pop). Manhole covers that take 10 engineers and three months to design (cost: $243,000). Muni's management has produced su

  December 9, 1998

• Rewarding Failure

  What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

  December 2, 1998

• Loud & Proud

  October 7, 1998

• Homage to Patagonia

  July 15, 1998

• The French Connection

  April 15, 1998

• Dog Bites

  September 24, 1997

• Hats Off to Larry!

  July 16, 1997

• That's a Wrap

  November 20, 1996

• 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

  December 27, 1995