Last week we had a great time launching the Muni Art project with the good folks at San Francisco Beautiful. How many Muni Art buses have you seen? They are out on the street, beautifying our city. Be...
With San Francisco's Fleet Week events taking place this week, it seemed appropriate to unveil a very recent and unusual discovery made by SFMTA Photo Archive staff. With well over 90 percent of our...
Events : For a second straight weekend the city will be the place to be. With half a dozen events, there will be something to do and see from morning till night. On Saturday head out to the Sunset for...
Two open-air boat cars, a streetcar that looks like a cable car, and even a #MuniHeritage tattoo. During the last week of September, people around San Francisco captured all this and more for our...
If you’ve been pretty much anywhere in San Francisco (or most major cities in the U.S., Canada and Australia), you’ve probably seen these stencils on certain streets around the cities. This sharrow on...
Muni’s newest bus yard, the Islais Creek Motor Coach Facility, is rapidly expanding with the exciting influx of new Muni buses. This is the first of two posts in which we’ll take a look at the history...
A teacher blows a whistle. Students drop to the floor, duck under their desks, cover their heads, and hold on waiting for the imaginary rumbling of the ground to stop — an earthquake drill. The view...
Next Wednesday, October 21, marks the 87th anniversary of the opening of the N Judah! Just in time for this anniversary we're sharing some recently scanned photos of the massive celebration held to...
Events : This weekend will find music reverberating across the Bay and a colorful community bash in one of the city’s hippest neighborhoods. On Saturday, it’s the 26th annual Potrero Hill Festival...
Sunday Streets in the Mission | May 2015. The weather Sunday is forecast to be partly cloudy but the streets will be clear on the fourteen blocks of Valencia between McCoppin and 26th. This is the...
Twice a month we share some of our favorite destinations in the city and the Muni routes and lines that will take you there. The view looking north from Bernal Hill. Photo taken Sept. 15, 2015. The...
SFMTA Board of Directors: 1p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20 City Hall, Room 400 Nearby Muni Routes: 5, 19, 21, 47, 49, F Market, Metro-Civic Center Station Our Board of Directors meetings are usually held on...
Today's SFMTA Board of Directors meeting covered a lot of ground and included the approval of a new five-year contract for vehicle towing. The new contract reduces tow fees by five percent and expands...
While Lunar New Year festivities began two weeks ago, this weekend celebrations culminate in Chinatown with a two day community street fair and the traditional Chinese New Year Parade. By the...
The SFMTA Photo Archive has been spending the past few weeks diving into the history of some of San Francisco's most historic transit routes. Last week we took a look at the 14 Mission Yesterday...
This won’t be news to anyone who has squeezed onto a packed N Judah car at Van Ness Station for the evening commute or crammed onto an M Ocean View car at Castro Station to get to work in the morning...
Page Street commuters may have noticed a green center-running bike lane installed this week near Octavia Boulevard to help bike commuters get downtown safely. The idea of this one-block bike lane is...
SFMTA crew cleans overhead wires after a World Series parade. Photo taken Oct. 31, 2014. A new SFMTA apprenticeship program will help jump-start meaningful careers for local residents while developing...
First Residential Parking Permit Evaluation Project Open House: 6 – 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23James Lick Middle School1220 Noe Street x. 25th Street Nearby Muni Routes: 24, 29, 35, 48, J Church to...
For this Thursday’s “Throwback” blog, the SFMTA Photo Archive is taking a trip to the sunny, “bay side” of San Francisco, where today’s 3rd Street, now home of the “T” end of the “K-Ingleside / T...
Our weekly historical series featuring Muni routes finishes up with the 22 Fillmore, a hard working line that has provided crosstown service for over a century. Also, don’t forget to join us at “SF...
Lots of interesting transit and transportation news in the headlines recently. Today, we bring you a sampling of local, regional and national stories that shed light on current and coming changes to...
The Chinatown YMCA on Sacramento Street on December 21, 2012. Photo credit: Don Barrett/Flickr. Construction Alert: Sunset Tunnel construction work will resume this Friday beginning at 8 p.m. and will...
The SFMTA team gets ready to take to the streets for the Feb. 20 Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade. (Photo: SFMTA) Lions, dragons and monkeys — oh my. The clang of cymbals and the rat-a-tat...
Juan Castillo delivered a moving speech at his recent training class graduation at Presidio Division. From L-R: Doniki Dudley, Ce Qiang fu, Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin, Juan Castillo, Ken...