Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Muni

Muni Proposes New Bus Route, Curbside Transit Lanes on 16th Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 2, 2015 | 36 Comments

Muni plans to launch a new bus line this month to beef up service along eastern 16th Street, connecting the BART station at Mission Street to the soon-to-open University of California SF hospital at Mission Bay. The 55-16th Street route would complement existing 22-Fillmore service on 16th, extending beyond the 22’s endpoint all the way […]

Muni Pushes “Double Berthing” Launch Back One More Week

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 12, 2014 | 17 Comments

We’ve now lost count of how many times Muni has delayed the launch of “double berthing” in its Metro stations. Last we heard, it was promised to launch tomorrow, but the agency now says it needs one more week of testing before two trains can simultaneously board on the same platform. “We are adding an […]

Geary Bus Riders Set to Get Some “Early” Upgrades Before BRT Lanes Arrive

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 9, 2014 | 10 Comments

Muni’s 38-Geary riders may get some relief even before bus rapid transit lanes come to the line’s Richmond segment in 2019. The SFMTA and SF County Transportation Authority are developing plans to install “early” improvements over the next few years, like bus bulbs, extended transit-only lanes, and transit signal priority. Those upgrades would be made east […]

Union Square’s “Winter Walk” Plaza on Stockton a Hit – Why Bring Cars Back?

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 8, 2014 | 33 Comments

Families are loving “Winter Walk SF,” the temporary holiday plaza filling two blocks of Stockton Street in Union Square. As CBS reporter John Ramos put it, the on-street downtown play space “represents the San Francisco everyone wants it to be.” “I didn’t expect to see this,” one smiling girl told Ramos, standing on the green […]

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Extending the Central Subway: Why Stop at Fisherman’s Wharf?

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 5, 2014 | 35 Comments

The nascent prospect of extending the Central Subway beyond Chinatown gained steam this week with the release of a preliminary city study [PDF] that lays out some conceptual proposals to bring the subway further into the city’s northern neighborhoods. North Beach neighbors, who are living with construction disruption as the tunnel’s drill is extracted in their backyards, […]

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All-Door Muni Boarding Still Means Quicker Buses, Less Fare Evasion

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 3, 2014 | 12 Comments

Two years after Muni launched all-door boarding, the agency continues to report [PDF] quicker boardings and lower rates of fare evasion. As SFBay reported, SFMTA Performance Manager Jason Lee told the agency’s board yesterday that “dwell times,” the amount of time buses spend waiting at stops, have decreased by an average of 38 percent systemwide. Dwell times are […]

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