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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 >>

  • News

    October 3, 2012

    BART Art: Agency Bypasses Locals in Renovation Plans

    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

    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

    November 18, 2011

    American Airlines Flight Attendants Join Occupy SF Today

    Today, the flight attendants would be serving coach first. ​With bongos sounding and dread-locked protesters fearing eviction from the Occupy SF encampment this morning, a group of well-coiffed adults in sharp uniforms converged at Justin Herman Plaza. Like the "Sesame Street" jingle, these p ... 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

    December 14, 2010

    Congestion Pricing Showdown: Assemblyman Jerry Hill To Address San Francisco Supes

    Seriously, take Caltrain. You're allowed to drink coffee and everything. ​San Francisco's idea to charge motorists $6 a day to enter or exit the city's southern border has spurred what could only be labeled a congestion pricing pissing contest. Peninsula officials are huffing that they'll impose a ... 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

    April 26, 2010

    Muni Budget Leaves Board Prez David Chiu Mystified

    N-Judah Chronicles/Lauren Oliver -- Used with PermissionBoard President David Chiu to Muni: Show me the money! ​Board of Supervisors President David Chiu likes to remind people that he's a Muni rider. Come May 8, with 10 percent service cuts taking effect, he'll be a Muni waiter, just like everyon ... 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 >>

  • News

    June 3, 2009

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

    ...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

    December 17, 2007

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

    ...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

    December 5, 2007

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

    ...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

    July 4, 2007

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

    ...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 >>

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    BART’s Radar Dreams

    ...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 >>

  • News

    August 16, 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?

  • 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

    January 21, 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

  • 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

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Driving School for Transplanted New Yorkers

    Apex Driving School

  • 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

    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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