Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Muni

SFMTA painting the bus 'Red Carpet' lanes on Mission in the Mission a couple of years back. Photo: SFMTA.

Open Thread: Room for Private Vehicles in Red Carpet Lanes?

By Roger Rudick | Aug 23, 2018 | 63 Comments

The SFMTA Board of Directors approved the next step in the $35 million Geary Rapid project on Tuesday, which includes segments of red carpet, bus-only lanes between Stanyan and downtown. The rub: the SFMTA decided to allow privately run transit, including tour buses, tech-buses, and Chariot, to also use the lane (in reality, non-Muni vehicles of […]

A 5 Fulton navigating the traffic circle at McAllister and Steiner, now removed. Streetsblog/Rudick

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SFMTA Launches “Muni Backward” Program

By Roger Rudick | Aug 20, 2018 | 44 Comments

5 Fulton bus service had improved, but neighbors complained, so let the roll back begin

The main hall of the new transit center, now closed. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick

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Sneak Peek at the Salesforce Transit Center

By Roger Rudick | Aug 8, 2018 | 21 Comments

A look inside San Francisco's new Transbay bus facility

An overcrowded train at Civic Center Station. New train or old train or whatever train--the operator's primary job in the tunnel is to make sure it is safe to proceed. Photo: RobVSFsFlickr

Transit Riders Win Half-Hour Extension on Muni Tickets

By Roger Rudick | Jul 19, 2018 | 8 Comments

Riders will have a full two hours to complete their journeys

From the cab view of a KJ combo train heading into Glen Park (that's a test train ahead in the station). Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Editorial: Keep the Combo J Church/K Ingleside Train

By Roger Rudick | Jul 12, 2018 | 22 Comments

Why do the J and the K turn around at Balboa and head back downtown the way they came, rather than continuing on each other's alignments? Wouldn't the service be more useful if, even if they had to pause for a few minutes at Balboa to maintain schedules, the two lines were combined?

One of many Ubers/Lyfts making an illegal u-turn after discharging passengers on Townsend during yesterday's protest. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick unless noted

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SFMTA Cancels Townsend Safety Project; Advocates Fight Back

By Roger Rudick | Jul 11, 2018 | 9 Comments

Roughly seventy safety advocates donned yellow t-shirts and stood on the edge of the bike lanes along Townsend Street at the King Street Station yesterday evening to demand safety upgrades.

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