Subject: Public Transportation

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

  July 4, 2007

• 24 Hour BART Means Vomit, Systemic Hangover

  August 23, 2007

• BART Map Revamp: Getting Better or Worse? You Decide

  November 7, 2007

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

  December 5, 2007

• New Year's Eve BART Running Till 3 a.m. for $6 R-T

  December 17, 2007

• God Rides BART, Gets His PSP Stolen

  January 2, 2008

• BART Cards Due to Suck Less

  February 15, 2008

• Cost of Muni FastPasses Probably Won't Go Up

  March 19, 2008

• Oscar Grant's Buddies File $1.5M Worth of Charges Against BART

  Five pals of the man shot dead by BART police on New Year's Day have filed a claim accusing the rapid transit system of illegal search and seizure, excessive force, and false arrest and are demanding $1.5 million. The claim was filed by lawyer John Burris, who earlier sued BART for $25 million on behalf of the family of Oscar Grant, and was brought about at the behest of Nigel Bryson, Jackie Bryson, Michael Greer, Carlos Reyes, and Fernando Anicete.  In addition to watching the mortal wound

  February 4, 2009

• Oscar Grant Protesters Hope to Shut Down Fruitvale BART Station Next Week

  More on the wayA group of East Bay residents protesting BART officials' handling of the shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Year's Day say they plan to shut down the Fruitvale station on Thursday, March 5, during evening rush hour. The effort will mark the first organized attempt by protesters to disrupt the commuter train's operations -- though, last month, BART service was disrupted by riots in response to Grant's death. George Ciccariello-Maher, an Oakland resident and spokesman for the pr

  February 26, 2009

• Letters

  January 10, 1996

• Transit Spotting

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

  March 25, 2009

• Train Wreck

  Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

  November 5, 2008

• Subway Daze

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

  July 23, 2008

• Caltrain allows drinks - see seat stains for proof

  July 2, 2008

• Burning Atlanta

  January 2, 2008

• BART to Change Its Maps

  November 7, 2007

• Muni Chief's "Quiet Time"

  Nat Ford to staff: Don't talk to me!

  September 12, 2007

• Porkmistress Pelosi

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

  January 3, 2007

• BART’s Radar Dreams

  August 23, 2006

• Spinning Our Wheels

  The summer has brought a bevy of frustrations, delays, and smoggy afternoons to Bay Area drivers. Do you manage to look the other way?

  August 16, 2006

• Gridlock

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

  May 4, 2005

• Bus Stopped

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

  November 24, 2004

• The Tax Man Cometh

  The federal government looks to eliminate abusive tax shelters, and it may cost San Francisco tens of millions of dollars

  January 21, 2004

• Subwaylaid

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

  December 10, 2003

• Gimme Shelters

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

  August 13, 2003

• Death, Maiming, Money, and Muni

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

  August 6, 2003

• Best Driving School for Transplanted New Yorkers

  May 14, 2003

• Unnatural Gas

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

  December 4, 2002

• Training Daze

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

  September 4, 2002

• Visionary Thinking

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

  December 5, 2001

• Pop Philosophy

  BART considers late-night trains, DNA reopens, Napster smooches Metallica

  July 18, 2001

• Letters

  February 3, 1999

• No More Free Ride?

  January 20, 1999

• Letters

  December 23, 1998

• Letters

  December 16, 1998

• Mecklin

  December 16, 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

  December 9, 1998

• A Million Here, a Million There ...

  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

• Take BART, Please

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

  December 24, 1997

• Letters

  April 30, 1997

• The Grid

  April 16, 1997

• The Grid

  October 2, 1996

• The Muni Paradox

  August 29, 2007

• BART Trains Stop Running at Midnight. BART Union Negotiations Go On Forever.

  Just when you thought they were out ... they pull you back in​You know how BART is going to run 24 hours during Labor Day weekend while the Bay Bridge is closed? Well, maybe not! How about zero hours?A strike -- and the idea of a Dunkirk-like fleet of small boats being required to move folks across the Bay -- is once again a possibility. While BART's largest union, the SEIU Local No. 1021 enthusiastically posted its 75 percent ratification of the transit agency's labor proposal online yesterda

  August 11, 2009

• Newsom Reacts To News of BART Strike Within Hours -- Beating Response to Big Muni Crash By 12 Days

  ​Mayor Gavin Newsom took a lot of flak for his non-response to the Muni crash on July 18 that sent nearly 50 unfortunate riders to the hospital. Although Newsom has quite a lot of influence in the running of Muni in his role as mayor and appoints the members of the Muni board, he didn't say anything to the press about the crash until July 30. (According to the dailies, he told reporters who asked about his 12 days of silence after the crash, "This is so irrelevant. This is rather ridiculous.")

  August 13, 2009

• Great News: You Can Still Ride BART. If You're Partly Blind, You Can Still Suffer.

  If you can't make out this sign, then riding BART is even more hazardous than you might have thought​ Many riders have been pissed off of late about BART's ongoing labor soap opera. But two riders with bad eyesight may hold BART in special contempt now that the the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier ruling in their favor that BART was violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Vision-impaired riders Sheron George and Sharricci Fourte-Dancy sued BAR

  August 18, 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 letters surrounded by a circle of color, and then use that lettering to make a sarcastic critique -- for example, the "N" symbol becomes "N-one"; the "L" becomes "L-ate," the "J," "J-acked," the "T,"

  September 3, 2009

• Have You Seen This Missing Elderly Man Who Enjoys Hanging Out at BART and Bus Stations?

  Paul McAdoo​Paul McAdoo sounds like an interesting guy -- and if you see him, be sure to stop and have a chat. Then call the Menlo Park Police Department, as McAdoo has been missing since mid-October. The 86-year-old dementia patient has taken off for spells at times in the past; his family told police he's "a drifter" and a fan of public transportation -- which helps explain why he's often found hanging out at BART and bus stations. San Franciscans are advised to keep an eye out for McAdoo at

  November 4, 2009