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Public Transportation

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2013

    Here's What BART Is Doing About Those Miserably Crowded Trains

    This probably isn't news to you, but your BART ride to and fro is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. That's because too many of you are relying on BART to get around; the agency is reporting record ridership that just keeps growing, particularly during peak commute hours (7 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 7 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2012

    BART Idiot Hall of Fame Facebook Page Documents Badly Behaved Passengers

    If you ever actually wanted to experience the demise of humanity, look no farther than the Bay Area's public transportation system, where you will find passengers who poop in their pants (and on the train seats, escalators, etc.), riders who dedicate that last seat for their luggage, and drunks who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    Here's How to Navigate the Transitpocalypse Coming This Weekend

    San Francisco is expecting throngs of people to descend on the city this weekend, and when we say throngs, we mean tens of thousands of human beings milling around our compact city.While Mayor Ed Lee says there's no need to worry about traffic jams, we still think you have good reason to doubt him o ... More >>

  • News

    October 3, 2012

    BART Art: Agency Bypasses Locals in Renovation Plans

    San Francisco is expecting throngs of people to descend on the city this weekend, and when we say throngs, we mean tens of thousands of human beings milling around our compact city.While Mayor Ed Lee says there's no need to worry about traffic jams, we still think you have good reason to doubt him o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2012

    BART Riders Seem "Optimistic" About Bike Fridays

    BART took its first stab at journalism today with this man-on-the-street report detailing how riders felt about today's first Bike Friday, where cyclists were allowed to bring bikes on board BART trains during rush hour. We know as BART riders there's a lot of mixed feelings about whether bikes shou ... More >>

  • News

    June 13, 2012

    Muni: Our Transit Agency Has Neglected Maintenance for Years

    BART took its first stab at journalism today with this man-on-the-street report detailing how riders felt about today's first Bike Friday, where cyclists were allowed to bring bikes on board BART trains during rush hour. We know as BART riders there's a lot of mixed feelings about whether bikes shou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2012

    Muni: "Glad Bag Bus" Yanked Out of Service

    Today's cover story is about Muni's broken vehicles and the broken system that leads mechanics to "fix" them with plastic bags, duct tape, and rubber bands. The rolling symbol of Muni's long-term neglect of maintenance needs is Coach No. 5427, which has been motoring through city streets since at le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    BART Gets New Seats That Won't Soak Up Bodily Fluids as Easily

    Some of you might have already noticed that your BART ride seemed a little less like a trip to a porta-potti. That's because BART so proudly announced today that it has started to rip out the nasty, fecal-soaked wool seating on some train cars and replace it with easier-to-clean vinyl seats. The tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    BART Protests: When Will They Stop?

    That's one way to stop the protests​While protesters plan to gather again tonight and attempt to disrupt the evening commute (there's word they will be riding on the trains) -- BART is hoping new legislation wending its way through Sacramento will criminalize some protesters' actions. Tonight will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Suicide Halts BART Trains

    Suicide at BART ​The evening commute will be sad and slow. A woman apparently committed suicide this afternoon at the Ashby BART station in Berkeley, bringing trains to a screeching halt. Jim Allison, spokesman for BART, told SF Weekly that the northbound train was coming into the station at about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    BART GM Dorothy Dugger's $1M Payout: What Could That Buy?

    BART's lost $958,000 isn't in the lost and found​Nothing is more awkward than a breakup taking place on public transportation. Except, of course, a public transportation breakup. Earlier this year, BART's board voted, behind closed doors, to dump high-priced general manager Dorothy Dugger. It turn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    BART GM Dorothy Dugger Resigns with $1M Severance Package

    Dorothy Dugger​BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger announced her resignation from the transit agency today, and will leave with close to $1 million in pay as part of a severance agreement, BART officials said.Dugger's resignation comes after BART's board of directors voted to fire her in February. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Party Time on BART! Cheaper Fares, Cleaner Cars in July

    We're rich! But only in July​ BART is magic: just a year after threatening to throw the Bay Area into transit gridlock with a workers' strike, the transit agency is thinking up ways to share an unexpected shower of riches with the huddled masses crammed onto trains, also known as customers. That' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Feds Imperil Central Subway Funding, Demand Proof it's No Boondoggle

    Jim HerdWoosh -- gone?​Mayor Gavin Newsom and his public transit chief Nat Ford had the chance to hold an elaborate groundbreaking earlier this month for the $1.6 billion Central Subway light rail project. But a letter from a  top federal transportation bureaucrat suggests the festivities may ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    BART Board Member Describes BART as 'Pyramid Scheme'

    ...Step three: Profit!​Like many transit advocates SF Weekly contacted this week, BART board member Tom Radulovich was relieved that the feds yanked $70 million from the controversial Oakland Airport Connector project, with the funds instead heading to Muni, BART and the Bay Area's other cash-stra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    BART Union Approves Contract; Workers, Management Go Back To Talking Trash *Without* Specter of Crippling Strike

    ​The union for BART's drivers and station agents blamed the system's financial woes on George W. Bush and greedy management while the system pointed the finger at well-compensated, overtime-hoarding employees. And the riding public can offer a Mercutio-like pox on both their houses while dozing of ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2009

    For contract talks, BART and its unions take the information superhighway

    ​The union for BART's drivers and station agents blamed the system's financial woes on George W. Bush and greedy management while the system pointed the finger at well-compensated, overtime-hoarding employees. And the riding public can offer a Mercutio-like pox on both their houses while dozing of ... 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 >>

  • News

    April 1, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    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

    January 8, 2009

    BART Erases Graffiti About Oscar Grant's Killing

    By Lauren SmileyIt seems riders' camera phones are BART's second worst nightmare these days. Second, of course, to Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop involved in the shooting death of Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day. BART officials bemoaned in the Chron that the footage captured by passengers of the ... More >>

  • News

    November 12, 2008

    Take the Rude Train

    BART riders won't give up their seats for a pregnant woman.

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Killer MUNI Ignored for Carbon Crusade

    BART riders won't give up their seats for a pregnant woman.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Critical Mass Today at 6 p.m. -- Hide Your Car!

    BART riders won't give up their seats for a pregnant woman.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2007

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

    BART riders won't give up their seats for a pregnant woman.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

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

    BART riders won't give up their seats for a pregnant woman.

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2007

    BART’s ‘SCREEECH’ Problem: Dustin Diamond Must Be Stopped

    BART riders won't give up their seats for a pregnant woman.

  • News

    September 5, 2007

    Big BART Brother

    The transit system's bosses know when you're sleeping, know if you're awake ... or singing Christmas carols

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2007

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

    The transit system's bosses know when you're sleeping, know if you're awake ... or singing Christmas carols

  • 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

  • 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 10, 2002

    Runaway Train

    Why is Muni in such a hurry to win approval for a blindingly complex, potentially risky, $1 billion plan to privatize the city's rail fleet?

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Visionary Thinking

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

  • Music

    July 18, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

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

  • News

    February 3, 1999

    Letters

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

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    No More Free Ride?

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

  • News

    December 23, 1998

    Letters

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    Letters

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

  • Calendar

    December 16, 1998

    Mecklin

    Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

  • 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 9, 1998

    A Million Here, a Million There ...

    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 2, 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

  • News

    December 24, 1997

    Take BART, Please

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

  • Calendar

    May 7, 1997

    The Grid

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

  • News

    April 30, 1997

    Letters

    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

  • Calendar

    October 2, 1996

    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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