Transportation

Don’t drink and drive, let Muni do the driving. For the 24th consecutive year, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will offer free rides on New Year’s Eve from 8 p.m. on Sunday, December 31 through 5 a.m. on Monday, January 1. Extra Muni Subway Service will be provided from 8 p.m. more...

Unfortunately, on Monday, January 1, 2024, BART fares will increase by 5.5%. However, those who qualify for low-income fares will see a benefit in the new year; their discount will increase to 50%. A modest fare increase and a deeper discount on fares for qualifying lower-income riders will both go into more...

Thank goodness… San Francisco’s parking meter hours will not be expanded. Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the news that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has reached an agreement with SFMTA to put the brakes on their plan to expand the hours parking meters would be enforced. SFMTA proposed expanding the meter more...
It is the end of an era. Beginning November 30, 2023, paper tickets will no longer be accepted at BART. This change is occurring as BART begins to roll out new state-of-the-art fare gates that will not accept paper tickets and as Clipper prepares for the launch of the next more...
Thanks to SF Examiner for sharing the news that a stretch of San Francisco’s Hayes Street will remain closed to cars for another year. SFMTA voted unanimously on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, to keep the 400 block of Hayes Street (between Octavia and Gough streets) car-free on Fridays and Saturdays. On more...
After Caltrain suspended service between San Francisco and Millbrae Stations during the weekend of Outside Lands, BART is coming to the rescue. On Friday morning, BART announced that they’ll be providing free roundtrip BART tickets to Caltrain riders at the Millbrae Station on Saturday and Sunday from 10a-2p (or while more...
A renegade San Francisco filmmaker, Vincent Woo, has embarked on an audacious project to demystify the BART system. His guerrilla documentary, “Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride,” presents a raw, unfiltered glimpse of a journey typically seen only by BART conductors, all captured from a secret camera surreptitiously attached to a more...
The electrification of Caltrain has reached another major milestone as electric trains operated under power from the overhead contact system (OCS) for the first time. Initial tests will be conducted between Santa Clara and College Park Stations on the Santa Clara Drill Track. Test runs will expand to the main track, more...
By Dan McMenamin Bay City News BART has a fare evasion problem. Solutions, or at least the data to inform them, are being collected as part of a study announced Tuesday by BART’s Office of the Independent Police Auditor and a nonprofit that did a previous report on the issue for the more...
Well, San Francisco, your “free” after-hours parking ride is just about up. Currently, most parking meters in San Francisco end enforcement at 6pm on Mondays through Saturdays and are free all days on Sundays. But starting in July 2023, (there’s no exact date listed) SFMTA will begin an 18-month neighborhood-by-neighborhood plan more...
Thanks to NBC Bay Area for sharing the news that BART plans to increase weekend service and decrease weekday service. BART is proposing a new service plan that would increase weekend and evening service while decreasing weekday daytime service. The plan is being presented to the BART Board of Directors on more...
Thanks to Mission Local for letting us know that the 16th Street BART elevator might finally get replaced after 50 years. And it will cost “only” $5 million. Built in 1973, the current elevator at 16th Street was designed to only last for 30-40 years, so it’s already passed its expected more...
Thanks to SFist for letting us know that BART fare-hoppers might be in for a spiky surprise. Since 2019, BART has been on a mission to outwit fare evaders, but their previous attempts have fallen flat. Remember the notorious “guillotine fare gate”? That’s ancient history now. This time, they’re stepping up their more...
The Bay Area is considering a pilot program that would make it free or cheaper to transfer between different public transit agencies. This means that if you took BART to another transit agency, like VTA or Muni, you could pay the full BART fare and then not have to pay more...
By Eli Walsh, Bay City News BART officials are poised next month to spend approximately $47 million for the development of new fare gates in an effort to crack down on fare evasion. Infrastructure officials with the transit agency formally recommended Thursday that BART should award a contract to Virginia-based STraffic America more...