All kinds of ways to get around the Bay
For some people, the daily commute will get a little easier this week. Monday morning, a new ferry service between the Oakland, Alameda, and South San Francisco opened. In San Francisco, regular...
View ArticleTaxi alternative Uber faces legal hurdles
Hailing a taxi in San Francisco can be nearly impossible if you’re not downtown. Calling ahead isn’t a guarantee either – often, the cab is late and sometimes it never comes.
View ArticleListener Feedback: Golden Gate Park bike lanes
Last week, we aired a story produced by KALW’s Ben Trefny and Rai Sue Sussman that discussed Golden Gate Park’s new biking lanes, and it prompted an unprecedented response. Here are some thoughts from...
View ArticleRegulating the Google Buses: the SFMTA's plan for private shuttles
Private shuttles have been using Muni stops in San Francisco for a while. But theyve mostly been smaller buses, for hospitals and universities. In the past few years though, bigger charter buses for...
View ArticleWill Bay Area Bike Share expand on its downtown success?
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stuck half the bikes in an area covering downtown, the...
View ArticleWhy are there anti-Muslim ads on our public buses?
Earlier this fall San Francisco Muni buses displayed an ad that may have upset you. Or angered you. Or made you feel threatened. The Muni ad was part of an anti-Islam campaign calling itself the...
View ArticleCity Visions: Is Vision Zero making San Francisco's streets safer?
How safe is it to walk or cycle in San Francisco? Last year, the city adopted Vision Zero, a policy designed to eliminate all traffic deaths and severe injuries by 2024. Host Joseph Pace speaks with...
View ArticleWhere is San Francisco's transportation system headed?
A new report from the Dutch mapping company TomTom ranks San Francisco the second most congested city in the country; only Los Angeles is worse. And in times of gridlock, people often choose to take...
View ArticleCity Visions: Commuter jitneys re-emerge in San Francisco
Years ago, private jitneys roamed up and down Mission Street collecting passengers, as an alternative to MUNI. Within the last few months, three new companies, Chariot, Leap and Loup, began offering...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Impact: How will the big game affect your commute?
Although the Super Bowl game is taking place in Santa Clara, the majority of pre-game celebrations will take place in busy downtown San Francisco and along the Embarcadero.
View ArticleMedallions keep taxi drivers stuck in industry
Harbir Batth isn’t having a good day. Not many fares. “It's been terrible,” he tells me. Then finally, some hope appears: a doorman for the Parc 55 Hotel in Union Square hails the cab over. They hop in...
View ArticleThese citizens wanted better bike lanes. So they built them.
It’s a sunny Friday afternoon. Three guys riding bicycles meet on a corner in downtown San Francisco, where they disguise themselves as city employees. Sort of.
View ArticleDisaster prep, SF-style: Giant ambulances built from old Muni buses
As American cities recover from floods, hurricanes and violent political demonstrations, we take a look at one of San Francisco’s more unusual tools for disaster response.
View ArticleCity Visions: Scooters and the future of urban personal mobility
At the end of March, three electric scooter companies deposited over 2,000 scooters onto San Francisco streets. While scooters represent a good alternative to private cars or Uber or Lyft to some, to...
View ArticleWhat is San Francisco's oldest running streetcar?
San Francisco is home to a fleet of colorful historic streetcars. They run on Market Street and the Embarcadero, as the F and E lines. We got the question “What is the oldest running streetcar in San...
View ArticleCity Visions: Keeping our eyes on the road towards Vision Zero
What will it take to make San Francisco streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists? In 2014, the City adopted Vision Zero, an ambitious plan to end all traffic deaths and severe injuries by 2024.
View ArticlePedestrians Say Goodbye To Cars On Market Street
San Francisco banned private cars from a major section of Market Street yesterday. It’s the first step in a plan to make the area safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
View ArticleSF To Increase Most Public Transit Fares
The SFMTA Board of Directors voted unanimously, on Tuesday, to increase MUNI fares by the end of this year.
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