Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Muni

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SFSU Students Study How to Un-Suck Biking to BART

By Roger Rudick | May 25, 2016 | 18 Comments

Professor Jason Henderson’s “Bicycle Geographies” class wants the ride from Daily City BART to San Francisco State University’s campus to be comfortable and fun. And why shouldn’t it be? After all, it’s only a 1.6 mile trip that should take even a novice cyclist about 15 minutes. Given the proximity to BART, this should be a […]

“Make Transit Awesome” Campaign Crosses Finish Line Tomorrow

By Roger Rudick | May 18, 2016 | 2 Comments

Tomorrow, Thursday, the San Francisco Transit Riders (SFTR) group wraps up its “Make Transit Awesome” Indiegogo campaign. A crowd-sourcing campaign is usually not all that noteworthy, except in this case it’s for a cause near-and-dear to Streetsblog readers. The SF Transit Riders have been instrumental in getting things such as transit-only lanes on Mission, encouraging […]

The Taraval Boarding Island Question: Q&A with Katy Tang

By Roger Rudick | May 17, 2016 | 33 Comments

Last week, Streetsblog brought you an editorial from Katy Tang about the issue of installing concrete boarding islands on Taraval as part of SFMTA’s Muni Forward project. This was in response to a headline in the SF Examiner, that declared “Supervisor Slams Brakes on L-Taraval Changes.” As Streetsblog readers may recall, business owners were pushing […]

SF Celebrates Bike to Work Day

By Roger Rudick | May 12, 2016 | 7 Comments

San Francisco has come a long way. That was the theme of a rousing speech delivered by Margaret McCarthy, Interim Executive Director of the SF Bicycle Coalition, at a ceremony this morning in front of San Francisco City Hall. “We’ve seen a 184 percent increase in cycling in the past decade,” she said with her […]

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L-Taraval and the Concrete Boarding Island Question

By Roger Rudick | May 9, 2016 | 25 Comments

Back in February, Streetsblog reported on one of three meetings about SFMTA’s planned “Muni Forward” improvements to the L-Taraval line. Since then, SFMTA has held various smaller meetings with local stakeholders, confirmed SFMTA. But rumors have grown that, under the direction of Supervisor Katy Tang, the SFMTA was backing off safety improvements, such as adding […]

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San Francisco Needs to Get Out of the Car Storage Business

By Roger Rudick | Apr 28, 2016 | 35 Comments

Marco Salsiccia is a blind resident of the Sunset District. Last month, while stepping off an L-Taraval train at a stop without a boarding island, he got his cane stuck in the wheel well of a car as it illegally passed the train. His cane snapped in two. The motorist stopped briefly and then took […]

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