Background Since the Central Freeway was taken down after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Hayes Valley has replaced freeway overpasses and on-ramps with dense housing and shops and restaurants that...
Today, the SFMTA released the application for its Powered Scooter Share Permit Program, which will take the place of its current Pilot Program set to wrap this coming fall. This program is aligned...
Today, the SFMTA issued permits to four scooter-share operators: Scoot, Jump, Lime and Spin through the new Powered Scooter Share Permit Program. With the pilot program set to expire on Monday...
Yesterday, the SFMTA working with Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Brown announced the completion of the Octavia ‘Open Street’ Project in Hayes Valley. The Open Street Project was designed to reopen...
As we open up a new year, the SFMTA Photo Archive is looking back 40 years to 1979. Recently we launched a new scanning and archiving project to preserve more of our historic photographs for the...
On Thursday, January 9, at City Hall, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and San Francisco Beautiful (SFB), announced the kick-off of the 2020 Muni Art Project . Now in its...
The 2020 theme, “Hidden Gems of San Francisco” is a collaboration with The Poetry Society of America (sponsors of Poetry in Motion ®). The non-profit organization was involved in the selection of the...
The Antidote To Fascism Is Poetry dear hidden gemsriding on the bus your green glowhas something to say to the artificial mindalive in those buildings where time’s spiderswere invented to eat the...
Train Through Colma But will anyone teachthe new intelligence to missthe apricot trees that bloomed each springalong these tracks?Or the way afternoons blazed with creosote& ponderosa?Spring evenings...
It’s once again time for San Francisco Restaurant Week , where some of the best neighborhood restaurants thoughtfully create prix-fixe menus that highlight some of their signature tastes or take the...
Muni Metro bus substitutions and other service changes are coming next week Starting next week, the SFMTA will implement additional service changes during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. In...
Muni Forward includes engineering improvements—also known as Transit Priority Projects—designed to address transit delay, improve reliability, and increase the safety and comfort of customers along...
(As of 4/7/21, this announcement has been canceled.) The Muni Metro Subway is closed. Muni Metro Bus lines are now operating every day, serving each line. Muni Metro Bus System Map Market Street Stops...
In the rapidly changing environment caused by COVID-19, the SFMTA is making additional updates to Muni service. While ridership has fallen significantly, our bus operators still serve approximately...
The Essential Trip Card helps seniors and people with disabilities pay for a taxi to complete an essential trip. If you are a senior or person with a disability, you can apply for the Essential...
Since April 8, Muni has been operating a COVID-19 Core Service Plan to support essential trips that cannot be made any other way. With fewer operators, car cleaners and maintenance staff available...
Beginning Saturday, May 16, the SFMTA will increase the frequency on a number of lines in Muni’s existing COVID-19 Core system and reinstate the 9R San Bruno Rapid. This more frequent service will...
Beginning Saturday, June 13, the SFMTA will increase Muni service and frequency, add select routes into service and extend some current routes to continue to support essential trips. A key goal of...
As traffic congestion returns, the SFMTA is working to protect San Franciscans who continue to rely on Muni to get to work and essential appointments during this pandemic. In order to protect people...
To expand public space for physically distanced outdoor dining, retail and mobility, the city’s Shared Spaces program will close parts of Valencia Street to traffic starting this week. This temporary...
Clipper is excited to launch the START Pilot Program in collaboration with the SFMTA and other Bay Area transportation agencies (BART, Caltrain and Golden Gate Transit and Ferry). Designed to make...
To make more parking available to neighborhood residents as more businesses open, enforcement of parking time limits in all Residential Parking Permit (RPP) areas is set to resume September 14, 2020...
Photo: Crews constructing the new bus bulb out for the outbound 38 Geary stop at Fillmore in the foreground while other crews install new traffic signals in the background. As part of the Geary Rapid...
Photo: Crews install tactile dome trim and check the angle of the grade for the curb ramp in the new crosswalk center island at Geary and Laguna. As part of the Geary Rapid Project , construction...
Photo: Newly-minted business support signage on a Muni bus encouraging visitors to Japantown, one of the four neighborhood business districts supported by the Geary Rapid Project’s Construction...