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Passenger Transportation

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Pilots Say Flying United Airlines Isn't That Safe

    A flock of United Airlines pilots will stand post at the doors of San Francisco International Airport this weekend, but not to greet frequent flyers or to help you with your carry-on. They will be there to rail on the airlines, like every other frustrated flyer. Pilots have been in contract negoti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    S.F. Ferry Ticketers to Strike Today to Protest Automation

    Matt SmithMr. Ferry Boat doesn't like to get angry.​UPDATE: Media outlets are reporting that the planned strike has been called off. Original story 7:25 a.m.:Ticket taking on the Golden Gate ferry system has been one of the last manual labor jobs kept safe from automation. But that may change with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    NYC's Metropolitian Transporation Authority Threatens Man Marketing S.F. Muni T-Shirts

    Joseph Moore is K-onfused​ A few weeks back, San Francisco resident Joseph Moore got so fed up with Muni that he decided to express his disdain via custom-made clothing. The resultant T-shirts utilize various San Francisco Metropolitian Transportation Agency line names, which appear in black block ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2009

    Noe Valley and Mission residents say Google shuttles are evil

    Joseph Moore is K-onfused​ A few weeks back, San Francisco resident Joseph Moore got so fed up with Muni that he decided to express his disdain via custom-made clothing. The resultant T-shirts utilize various San Francisco Metropolitian Transportation Agency line names, which appear in black block ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Muni Tax Shelter Deal Could Lead to More S.F. Rail Carnage

    Jim HerdDid promised millions froma shady tax shelter deal blur Muni's judgment?​A month before investigators began to sift through train wreckage to determine the cause of last week's Muni light rail crash, officials examining deadly transit accident in Washington D.C. discovered a defect th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    In the Nick of Time: One Week After Horrific Muni Crash, Trial Lawyers' Convention Hits San Francisco

    'A barrister, my dear sir, is a taxi plying for hire. That is the fine tradition of our trade.'If you've got some loose carpeting, creaky staircases, or, say, have been allegedly flouting safety rules to pad your public transit agency's on-time performance -- this would be a good time to tidy up.&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Muni Union Head: Early Switch to Manual Power In Train Tunnel, Fingered for Weekend Crash, an 'Understood Practice' Among Drivers, Management

    Jim HerdA pair of culprits have emerged as the potential causes for the weekend's nasty Muni crash at West Portal station: Sources within Muni have told the media that the veteran driver reported he blacked out -- which wouldn't have been a problem if the driver didn't shift his train from automatic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Bicyclists Pack City Hall -- No Spandex in Sight

    Anna McCarthyValet?Bike parking was scarce at a City Hall hearing this morning as bike advocates arrived downtown in droves donning helmets and fluorescent pink identification stickers reading, "Double the number of bike lanes." Although helmets, U-locks, and other bicycling accessories abounded, ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: These Are Not the Budget Numbers You're Looking For

    The excitement stops here. I know ... I know ... that today's the day Gubernatorial Candidate Gavin Newsom releases his budget for San Francisco (a California city he occasionally resides in for campaign purposes). And I know that, when he does, we're all going to die a little. I know. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Terminus: Progressives Stymied as Supes Can't Muter Votes to Reject Muni Budget

    Today's very special noontime Board of Supervisors meeting clocked in at an extremely svelte 50-odd minutes. But, as was always the case in the ongoing wrangle over the Municipal Transportation Agency's budget, you could have boiled the whole thing down to a momentary exercise: Clerk: What'ya think, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Supes Punt MTA Budget Imbroglio To Special Meeting Next Wednesday

    Oh, they're dragging this out...The ongoing rancor over the Municipal Transportation Agency's woeful budget has transformed into quite a cliff-hanger: First Board President David Chiu fired a shot across MTA and the mayor's bow by crafting legislation allowing the supes to scuttle the budget. Then, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    S.F. Inquiry Regarding Disability Placards May Miss the (Disabled) Elephant In the Room: It's Just Too Damn Easy To Get a Disability Placard

    Who wants some?Supervisor Eric Mar was on the side of the angels yesterday when he convened a hearing looking into the Municipal Transportation Authority's enforcement of potential disability placard fraud; if Mar can help bring the legal hammer down on able-bodied folks who fraudulently represent t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Bus-ted: David Chiu Triggers Supes-Mayor Showdown Over Muni Budget

    Supervisor David Chiu gives Muni budget the whammy...Whatever David Chiu needs in life -- a faster bike, a more stylish helmet -- he doesn't require assertiveness training. The rookie supervisor and president of the board last month audaciously engineered a motion that would allow the supes to shoot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Someone's Getting Thrown Under the Bus on MTA Budget Battle. Who Will It Be?

    Perhaps this graffiti artist was displeased with Muni's budget as well...When Supervisor David Chiu last month placed an item in the Budget and Finance committee's Wednesday agenda rejecting the Municipal Transportation Authority's controversial budget, he wasn't doing it to merely test out the butt ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Transit Spotting

    A transportation activist points to inefficient and costly projects like the Central Subway.

  • News

    January 21, 2009

    Hope, Change, and Parking

    How support for a modest condo project should give us all hope for the city's future.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    "19th Avenue: I Know, I Know, I Know." - Gavin Newsom's Message on Transit

    By Benjamin Wachs I have to admit something before I begin: Gavin's ability to be boring is stronger than my ability to be funny. I'm slipping. I think I can hold the line for seven-and-a-half hours, but if he posts a sequel (perhaps "State of the City: Revolutions," or "State of the City: Attac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    The Clickable Clit: "Working in a Real Office Makes Cybersex Difficult"

    By Benjamin Wachs I have to admit something before I begin: Gavin's ability to be boring is stronger than my ability to be funny. I'm slipping. I think I can hold the line for seven-and-a-half hours, but if he posts a sequel (perhaps "State of the City: Revolutions," or "State of the City: Attac ... More >>

  • News

    October 15, 2008

    Controversial police ticketing program gets makeover

    By Benjamin Wachs I have to admit something before I begin: Gavin's ability to be boring is stronger than my ability to be funny. I'm slipping. I think I can hold the line for seven-and-a-half hours, but if he posts a sequel (perhaps "State of the City: Revolutions," or "State of the City: Attac ... More >>

  • News

    July 23, 2008

    Subway Daze

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    Cost of Muni FastPasses Probably Won't Go Up

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Killer MUNI Ignored for Carbon Crusade

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    Newsom’s Muni Budget Shell-Game Not New

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2008

    MTA War Is Brewing on MLK Day as Archduke Gavin Newsom Inspects His Troops. It's ...

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Sucky MUNI Probably As Good As It'll Get — an SF Weekly analysis

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

  • News

    August 29, 2007

    The Muni Paradox

    A new ballot measure could change this absurd concept: less management for more money

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2007

    MUNI To Run Faster, Cheaper and On-Time Under New Act

    A new ballot measure could change this absurd concept: less management for more money

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2007

    Who do you trust less to run your transit system? MUNI, or the City?

    A new ballot measure could change this absurd concept: less management for more money

  • News

    February 14, 2007

    Baby you can drive my TAXI

    Taxi Commission officials say hundreds of medallion holders aren’t driving cabs, and that’s against the law

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Porkmistress Pelosi

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

  • News

    March 8, 2006

    Missed Connection

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

  • News

    February 1, 2006

    Clang, Clang, Clang Went the New Subway

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

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Scrolling View

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

  • News

    May 4, 2005

    Gridlock

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

  • News

    November 24, 2004

    Bus Stopped

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

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Subwaylaid

    Why the new mayor should spend his political honeymoon taking the doggle out of a boondoggle known as the Central Subway

  • News

    August 13, 2003

    Gimme Shelters

    After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    Death, Maiming, Money, and Muni

    The enormous costs -- human and financial -- of bad drivers and lax discipline at the San Francisco Municipal Railway

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    Unnatural Gas

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

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2002

    Training Daze

    In the absurdist musical The Transit Rider, public transportation becomes a metaphor for life

  • News

    April 24, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of April 24, 2002

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Visionary Thinking

    The "X Plan," a draft of Muni's hopes for the future, offers a glimpse of transit utopia

  • News

    August 16, 2000

    Death and Taxis

    Why can't Hattie Neelon get to a funeral? Well, have you ever tried to get a cab in S.F.?

  • News

    December 23, 1998

    Letters

    Why can't Hattie Neelon get to a funeral? Well, have you ever tried to get a cab in S.F.?

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    Letters

    Why can't Hattie Neelon get to a funeral? Well, have you ever tried to get a cab in S.F.?

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    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

  • News

    December 24, 1997

    Take BART, Please

    We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

  • Calendar

    April 16, 1997

    The Grid

    We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

  • News

    January 10, 1996

    Letters

    We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

  • News

    December 27, 1995

    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

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