Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Muni Forward

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Tell SFMTA How You’d Improve Eight Muni Routes at Upcoming Workshops

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 8, 2012 | 25 Comments

The SFMTA is aiming to implement its plans to speed up Muni service under the Transit Effectiveness Project by 2017, beginning with eight priority routes. Starting March 31, the agency will hold nine workshops where the public can weigh in on how to improve these corridors. The toolkit includes bus lanes, bus bulbs, and stop […]

SF Agencies Take Aim at Bureaucratic Obstacles to a Transit-First City

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 9, 2012 | 14 Comments

San Francisco agencies are developing a wide-ranging program to streamline the funding and construction of improvements for walking, bicycling, and transit. The Transportation Sustainability Program (TSP) would reform the city’s transportation practices in three key areas: by eliminating reliance on the automobile-centric measuring stick known as Level of Service (LOS), by instituting a system of […]

SFMTA Board Approves Two-Way Haight Street Project

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 19, 2011 | 15 Comments

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Board of Directors yesterday unanimously gave the green light to a project that will convert the easternmost block of Haight Street to two-way bus operation. When constructed in 2014, the project is expected to improve transit reliability for the roughly 20,000 daily riders on the 6 and 71 […]

Two-Way McAllister Provides a Direct Route for 5-Fulton Riders

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 8, 2011 | 12 Comments

Two-way access on the east end of McAllister Street has been restored for Muni buses, bicycles, and commercial vehicles, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced last week. The conversion, completed last Thursday, provides a more direct route to Market Street for the 5-Fulton Muni line, which has long been forced to detour off […]

J-Church Line Could Be the First to Get All-Door Boarding

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 25, 2011 | 25 Comments

The J-Church has emerged as the top candidate for Muni to test all-door boarding as a way to speed up service on its busiest and least reliable lines. San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Transit Director John Haley said today that it is being evaluated for a pilot program that could lead to a system-wide change […]

Two-Way Haight Street Project Would Speed Up 6, 71 Muni Bus Lines

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 21, 2011 | 22 Comments

Just about any of the roughly 20,000 regular Muni riders who take the 6 or 71 lines every day can tell you their bus can come to a crawl as they make the turns at Laguna Street. Decades ago, the easternmost block of Haight Street was turned into a one-way street in the opposite direction, forcing […]

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