Transportation
BART’s Late Night New Year’s Eve Service Returns
Bay Area Updates, New Year's Eve, Transportation BART’s late-night service for New Year’s Eve returns this year. For New Year’s Eve we will run standard Friday service but with an extended closing time to allow people to enjoy fireworks in San Francisco or other festivities ringing in the New Year. The regular last trains of evening (Yellow, Blue, and more...
Bay Area’s Worst Times to Drive Over Thanksgiving Weekend
Bay Area Updates, Thanksgiving, Transportation, Travel Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the worst times for Bay Area drivers to hit the road over Thanksgiving weekend. INRIX, in collaboration with AAA, predicts Thanksgiving travel to rebound almost to pre-pandemic levels. Airports and roads may seem jam-packed this year as AAA predicts 53.4 million people to travel for more...
BART to Increase EV Charging Ports at Station Parking Lots
Transportation By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation The BART Board of Directors unanimously voted Thursday to approve tentative plans to expand access to electric vehicle charging ports at the transit agency’s parking lots. BART currently has electric vehicle charging stations at its Warm Springs/South Fremont and Lafayette stations. The parking lots at BART’s more...
SF’s Brand New “Central Subway” Finally Gets Fare Gates
Bay Area Updates, Transportation By Enrique Aguilar, SFMTA In October, crews began installing and testing fare gate and ticket vending machine equipment at new underground stations that hundreds of Muni customers will use to pay for Muni fares once the Central Subway opens next year. In addition to the new equipment being put into place at more...
The Worst Roads in the Bay Area? It’s Pacifica
Bay Area Updates, Transportation According to a recent study by Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Cupertino has the “best” roads in the Bay Area, with Pacifica the worst. Looking county-by-county, overall San Francisco had the best quality roads (followed by San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties) with Napa and Sonoma counties both considered to more...
New Ferry Service to Treasure Island Coming January 2022
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Transportation Thanks to the SF Chronicle for sharing news that a brand new ferry service is launching between the San Francisco Ferry Building and Treasure Island. The new service is set to begin in January 2022. The reason for the brand new ferry service is the new 8,000 housing development slated to more...
BART’s “Fleet of the Future” Delayed Until Spring 2023
Bay Area Updates, Transportation Thanks to KTVU for sharing the news that BART’s “Fleet of the Future,” is looking like it’s going to be coming well into the future. Like many other industries, unfortunately, the project suffered numerous delays due to technical issues and COVID. BART’s 775 car “Fleet of the Future” was expected to more...
Highway 1 Reopens After Rockslide Cleared Earlier Than Expected
Transportation, What's Closed / What's Open State Highway 1 through Big Sur reopened Saturday afternoon after crews cleared rock and dirt from the road just north of the line between San Luis Obispo County and Monterey County, Caltrans said. As of 3 p.m., the road was fully open again following a rockslide that was reported Wednesday a more...
BART to Reopen Station Restrooms in SF + Oakland After 20 Years
Bay Area Updates, Reopening, Transportation BART officials on Tuesday announced plans to reopen restrooms at two of the transit agency’s busiest train stations — 19th Street Oakland and Powell Street in downtown San Francisco. The station restrooms are set to reopen in February 2022 for the first time in more than 20 years after BART closed more...
Animated Map Shows SF’s History (and Future) of Dedicated Muni/Transit Lanes
Bay Area Updates, Transportation By Michael Rhodes, SFMTA It’s been a record year for transit lanes in San Francisco: we’ve installed nearly 14 miles of new or upgraded lanes since summer 2020. That’s the fastest expansion of transit lanes in the city’s history. These transit lanes benefit Muni routes that serve nearly two-thirds of current more...
SF’s Bob’s Donuts Stars in Fun New YouTube Series
Brand New, City Insight, Fun & Games, Only in San Francisco, Transportation Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that a new comedy web series has launched and it stars San Francisco’s Bob’s Donuts. Taking a riff from Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is San Francisco’s “Comedians on Bicycles Getting Bob’s” streaming on YouTube. Comedian Sarah Katz-Hyman meets guests for a more...
SF’s Geary Blvd. Finally Has a Muni “Red Carpet”
Bay Area Updates, San Francisco, Transportation San Francisco city leaders on Wednesday announced the completion of the first phase of the Geary Rapid Project, a series of safety and transit improvements along Geary Boulevard and involving several neighborhoods, including the Western Addition, Japantown, and the Tenderloin. The $13 million project broke ground back in 2019, bringing numerous more...
Muni Adding 10% More Bus Service in Early 2022
Bay Area Updates, Reopening, San Francisco, Transportation By Erin McMillan Over the past couple of months, SFMTA staff have been reaching out for feedback on three alternatives for adding 10% more bus service in early 2022. And we heard you! SFMTA needs to focus on restoring service to provide key connections for people with disabilities and seniors, and that’s what we more...
18,000 “Upgraded” Parking Meters are Coming to SF in 2022
Bay Area Updates, San Francisco, Transportation By Jessie Liang Beginning early next year, SFMTA will be replacing more than 18,000 parking meters throughout San Francisco. The parking meter hardware upgrade is taking place under a $70 million contract with MacKay Meters, Inc, which was approved by the Board of Supervisors. According to the agreement, more than half more...
BART to Run Late Night Trains for Halloween + Outside Lands
San Francisco, Transportation BART to offer some extended service for Halloween and Outside Lands In anticipation of what is likely to be a high-ridership weekend BART will be offering some level of extended late-night service on Sunday, October 31, 2021, beyond 9pm. Staff is still working out details of the service plan and they more...
