Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Muni

Guest Editorial: Make Muni Faster with Clipper Discount

By Andy Bosselman | Feb 23, 2016 | 60 Comments

Muni will carry 700,000 trips today, making it the most heavily traveled transit system in the Bay Area. But as you read this, many buses and trains are at a standstill. They’re stopped as people fumble with dollar bills and coins, needlessly creating delays that our transit system can’t afford. In San Francisco, it’s not […]

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Muni Taraval Meeting Met with Grimaces Groans and Grumbles

By Roger Rudick | Feb 18, 2016 | 75 Comments

Over a hundred people braved the wind and rain yesterday evening to attend the latest public outreach meeting about SFMTA’s planned “Muni Forward” improvements to the L-Taraval streetcar line. The meeting was held at Dianne Feinstein Elementary school, about two blocks south of Taraval. District 4 Supervisor Katy Tang kicked off the meeting. “I am […]

Streetsblog Talks with San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener

By Roger Rudick | Jan 28, 2016 | 8 Comments

Scott Wiener, who has served District 8 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2011, was re-elected this week as chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. The Authority was created in 1989 and it works closely with the Municipal Transportation Agency, funding and shepherding long-term projects such as the Van Ness and […]

San Francisco MTA Backpedals on Powell Safety Improvements

By Roger Rudick | Jan 19, 2016 | 9 Comments

The SFMTA Board passed a partial rollback this afternoon of the “Powell Street Safety & Improvement Pilot,” an 18-month test project to evaluate banning private vehicles on the particularly busy stretch of Powell Street between Ellis and Geary. The change, based on staff recommendations, took a plan that reserved the street for “Muni, paratransit, taxis […]

Terrifying BART Shooting Shakes Bay Area

By Roger Rudick | Jan 11, 2016 | 8 Comments

I was waiting for an inbound BART train Saturday evening at eight in Rockridge when there was an announcement: “severe disruptions due to police activity at West Oakland.” My train arrived a few minutes later. We held in downtown Oakland for maybe 15 minutes. Then we rolled through West Oakland without stopping and accelerated to […]

Transit Volunteers Gear Up to Make Muni Better in 2016

By Roger Rudick | Jan 6, 2016 | 3 Comments

Amazingly, it was only 2010 when a bunch of regular Muni riders, fed up with unreliable, dirty, and overcrowded trains and buses, got together to form the San Francisco Transit Riders Union (SFTRU). But it now has an impressive list of accomplishments and is striving for more, according to Andy Bosselman, a spokesman and volunteer. […]

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