Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Muni

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

Valentine’s Muni Malfunction Underscores Lack of Interagency Cooperation

By Roger Rudick | Feb 15, 2018 | 8 Comments

A switch fault Wednesday left thousands of Muni customers delayed and peeved.

Regional Measure 3 Heads for the Ballot

By Roger Rudick | Jan 25, 2018 | 39 Comments

Tolls on most Bay Area bridges will reach $9 by 2025 to raise $4.45 billion for transportation projects, if Regional Measure 3 (RM-3) is approved by voters in June. Yesterday, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s (MTC) Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) approved putting RM-3 on the June 5 ballot in the nine Bay Area counties. The measure will […]

Let’s Cut the Bars Between Muni and BART

By Roger Rudick | Jan 12, 2018 | 21 Comments

If you commute by BART and Muni, you’ve no doubt been in the frustrating situation shown in the lead image. You get off your BART train at Civic Center or one of the other downtown stations, run up the stairs, tag out of BART, run across the mezzanine, tag into Muni, run back downstairs, and […]

In an effort to speed up buses between the Mission and Mission Bay, plans are in place to make 16th street a transit-priority street--but so far, there's little to show for the effort. Photo: SFMTA

What’s going on with SFMTA’s 16th Street Transit Improvement Project?

By Roger Rudick | Dec 21, 2017 | 13 Comments

The $67.5 million 16th Street improvement project, part of SFMTA’s ‘Muni Forward’ plan to improve bus reliability and run times, is supposedly on schedule and on budget. But there’s decidedly little to see on the street. “My understanding is they were supposed to stripe the transit-only lanes east of Potrero in November,” wrote Rachel Hyden, Executive […]

The Central Subway construction. Photo: SFMTA

Poll Shows Voters Support Transit Tax, but Two-thirds Threshold May Be Elusive

By Roger Rudick | Dec 20, 2017 | 5 Comments

More than seven in ten likely voters in San Francisco said there was a “great need” or “some need” for transportation improvements, according to a new poll commissioned by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. The survey involved just over 1,000 interviews conducted by phone and online earlier this month. “The survey also gauged voter […]

Advocates Align to Fight Proposal to Split Muni/SFMTA

By Roger Rudick | Dec 11, 2017 | 3 Comments

SPUR, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Walk San Francisco, and the San Francisco Transit Riders have come out hard against a proposal to split Muni from the rest of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

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