FINAL UPDATE: IB #MOceanView and #KIngleside cleared at West Portal & 14th. Regular service resuming. Expect residual delays. (More: 21 in last 48 hours)
We’re a little star-struck around here these days. Last month a clip of our head honcho, Ed Reiskin, was included in John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight piece about infrastructure . As Ed states in the...
This month, Laura Bliss of The Atlantic’s City Lab blog wrote about the new effort to host a transit-oriented World’s Fair in Los Angeles . The organizers, Los Angeles World’s Fair , are planning to...
Our friends at Muni Diaries run the ultimate venue ( live or online ) for telling travel stories in SF, and we love to keep up to date with the bus- and train-riding parrots , tigers and Fabio (oh my...
We continue highlighting the importance of good and well maintained transportation this week in honor of National Transportation Week and in the face of the MAP-21 May 31 deadline . Recently, the New...
You may have heard about our fun tour with Mayor Edwin M. Lee through the Central Subway tunnel yesterday. We appreciated the opportunity to share the progress with him and Supervisor Julie...
Two recent videos point to current and futuristic transit innovations. The first video below has been wowing viewers and inspiring future engineers while making its rounds on the web. The comments on...
On Tuesdays we’ll bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. The American Public Transportation Agency recently...
On Tuesdays we’ll bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. Today’s Transit Tuesday highlights the story out of...
On Tuesdays we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. This week’s selection comes from the venerable Grey Lady...
On Tuesdays we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. This week’s selection is from Seattle, Washington. The Metro...
On Tuesdays we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. This month men, women and children around the world are...
On Tuesdays we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. Are you ready for some football? With Super Bowl XLIX taking...
On Tuesdays we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. Last week the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC...
Public transit is turning into the perfect meet cute . You know, that moment in your favorite film or TV romantic comedy when the star bumps into, trips over or is otherwise thrust awkwardly at their...
In order for transit to improve, the people operating the system need to be tuned into everyday riders. Social media provides the good, the bad and the ugly in terms of feedback, and transit is...
Last week we talked about San Francisco’s Vision Zero policy, the new website and the city’s efforts to make our streets safer as well as a popular, yet comparatively small, Vision Zero initiative to...
On Tuesdays we’ll bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. Are you an “active commuter”? An interesting study from...
Each Tuesday we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Today’s Internet find comes from Beijing by way of London. It’s a fascinating...
Each Tuesday we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. We got so wrapped up with the exciting progress of our own Central Subway this...
Each Tuesday we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Today we are proud to welcome U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony...
We have a treat for you! If you love San Francisco, history or transportation, you will be stunned by the beauty and vibrancy of these photographs taken by famed photographer Fred Lyon in the 1940s...
A gem of San Francisco culture and history, Market Street Railway’s San Francisco Railway Museum and Gift Shop frequently hosts fascinating exhibits and showcases photographs that immerse you in the...
On Tuesdays we bring you a tidbit of transit news or trivia, either from our own backyard or from around the globe. Thanks for joining us. This week’s edition is a poem by the world renowned poet,...
As the year comes to an end, we are excited to present a selection of historic photos that were preserved in the SFMTA Photo Archive this year. Archive staff have been scanning and cataloguing...