To celebrate today's Bike to Work Day, the SFMTA Photo Archive is going way back for a look at the early days of biking in SF. In the 1890s, bicycles were rapidly growing in popularity as a way to get...
To say this weekend will be a big weekend is a bit of an understatement. The SFMOMA re-opens on Saturday in a bigger and better facility, making it one of the premiere museums in the country, Then on...
If San Francisco’s 2015 Annual Bicycle Count Report is any indication, today we should see another record-breaking number of wheels spinning along city streets. City leaders, agencies and community...
We hope you enjoyed yesterday’s Bike to Work Day as much as we did. Per the annual tradition, we were once again joined by supervisors, our partner agencies and the SF Bicycle Coalition in rides from...
Small businesses shape San Francisco’s neighborhoods. We’re proud to celebrate this vital community as a sponsor of San Francisco Small Business Week, May 21 - 28. Of course, our efforts to help small...
Raised Bikeway Demo On-Street Outreach Event: Tuesday, May 17, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Market and 12th Streets Nearby Muni Routes: 6, 7, 7R, 47, 49, F Market, Metro-Van Ness Station Stop by tomorrow and...
A festival in Civic Center celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander heritage on Saturday will offer up the opportunity to learn more about just how culturally diverse the Bay Area is. While the local...
Just because our cable cars and street cars are more than a century old, it doesn’t mean the roads and rail they travel on should be from the same vintage. Today, public transit leaders highlighted...
As we prepare to start construction on the Van Ness Improvement Project this summer, we will consolidate nine bus stops on Van Ness Avenue to speed up service on Saturday, June 4. The new stop spacing...
San Francisco loves sports, from the big leaguer Giants to small-fry neighborhood teams. So in the midst of baseball season, we're throwing back to the 1940s to share a little-known piece of the city...
Many a San Franciscan has pondered the meaning of the strange yellow dots painted at certain places on the street pavement. Many have resigned to letting them forever remain a mystery. You know the...
The SFMTA continues to lead San Francisco’s plan to harness emerging technological innovations, like self-driving cars and connected vehicles, to make transportation smarter and more equitable. As we...
Holiday Service Schedule and Enforcement Reminder : This Monday, Memorial Day, Muni will operate on a Sunday schedule. Also on Monday, seven-day street sweeping and parking meters (including those...
Private companies are lining up behind San Francisco’s bid to win the US Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge grant, pledging more than $150 million worth of in-kind support if San...
Market at 14th and Church streets. Our plans to make Upper Market Street safer with improvements including parking-protected bike lanes will be considered for approval by our SFMTA Board of Directors...
SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting Tuesday, May 2, 1 p.m. City Hall, Room 400 Nearby Muni Routes: 5, 19, 21, 47, 49, F Market, Metro-Civic Center Station The agenda for today's Board of Directors...
A scene from the How Weird Street Faire in 2015. Photo: Tom Hilton/Flickr How Weird Street Faire Sunday, 12 to 8 p.m.SoMa The 18th annual counter-cultural gathering known as the How Weird Street Faire...
Starting next week, we will begin work at Muni's Kirkland bus yard in Fisherman's Wharf that will require some disruptions on the block surrounded by Beach, Stockton, North Point and Powell streets...
Left: A new parking-protected bike lane on 13th Street, from Harrison to Bryant Street. Right: Freshly-installed concrete dividers on eastbound Division, from Bryant/11th to 10th Street. Fresh paint...
Bike commuters in a protected bike lane on Polk Street at Hayes Street on Bike to Work Day last year. This Thursday is Bike to Work Day, which means it's the perfect time once again to pedal out and...
Mission and 4th streets. When thinking about creating a better transportation system in San Francisco over the next 50 years, which values like equity, safety, sustainability and economy vitality are...
A new parking-protected bike lane on 7th Street. The bike lane runs between the sidewalk and new Muni boarding islands to make it easier for everyone to navigate. There's good reason to celebrate Bike...
Residents and hungry neighbors gather at Village Pizzeria for the Van Ness Improvement Project’s Meet the Expert speaker series, held each month at a different business on Van Ness. As a sponsor of...
If you've ever wondered what Muni looked like in the 1950s, you're in luck – we recently added over 1,500 photos to the SFMTA Photo Archive from years up to the end of 1959. Here are a few shots from...
New parking payment systems allow customers to use Apple Pay and provide on-screen instructions in multiple languages. We’re excited to introduce new 21st-century technology at city-owned parking...