Enhancing Safety on Franklin Street
We're excited to share an update on the Franklin Street Quick-Build Project, an effort to enhance traffic safety on Franklin Street between Broadway and Lombard Streets. This roadway stretch was the...
We're excited to share an update on the Franklin Street Quick-Build Project, an effort to enhance traffic safety on Franklin Street between Broadway and Lombard Streets. This roadway stretch was the...
Take a ride back in time and explore transit history at Muni Heritage Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, September 23-24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This years’ festivities combine free rides on heritage...
Rendering of Bryant and 17th Streets intersection. Image: Arcadis IBI Group We are reimagining the SFMTA’s Potrero Yard as the nation’s first known joint development of a bus maintenance facility with...
September is Transit Month in the Bay Area and on the latest episode of Taken with Transportation, the official SFMTA podcast, host Melissa Culross talks with Muni riders in multiple neighborhoods who...
An illustration for one of the featured neighborhood districts supporting the Take Muni to Support Small Business campaign, Artwork created by Dan Bransfield. This week we are launching a campaign...
People riding on the current center-running bikeway on Valencia. The bikeway on Valencia Street is changing, and we invite you to share ideas before we take next steps. On June 18, our Board of...
Proposals for the 8th Avenue Neighborway Project will be featured at an open house on March 15. Board of Directors Meeting Tuesday, March 7, 1 p.m. City Hall, Room 400 Nearby Muni routes: 5, 19, 21...
More and more people in San Francisco see their bicycle as a convenient way to get around as we invest in a network of safer, better bikeways. As these bikeways grow, so does interest about what the...
Sunday Streets on Valencia Street in the Mission. Nothing says spring has sprung better than the arrival of the Sunday Streets season in San Francisco. So mark this Sunday, March 12 on your calendar...
“Neighborway” projects will combine traffic-calming design features like raised crosswalks and sidewalk bulb-outs, like those seen in this rendering for the Wiggle Neighborhood Green Corridor Project...
Kezar Stadium on June 20, 2011. Photo: Graham C99/Flickr Event: San Francisco Deltas Soccer Saturday, 7 p.m. Kezar Stadium San Francisco’s newest professional sports team, the San Francisco Deltas of...
Events This weekend you can enjoy an island Easter egg hunt, National Corn Dog Day and a chance to run off all those extra calories while rocking and rolling 13.1 miles though the city. Rock'n Roll...
From Friday, March 31 to Friday, April 7, the SFMTA is closing off a small segment of northbound Octavia Street, from Linden to Hayes streets, for the Octavia Open Street events that will experiment...
Participants at a celebration of the Holi Festival of Colors in Parkmerced on March 14, 2009. Photo: Cary Bass-Deschenes/Flickr Events: As flowers bloom in the park this colorful spring weekend, cheer...
A Muni bus on the 29 Sunset route on the recently-redesigned Mansell Street in McLaren Park. SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting Tuesday, April 4, 1 p.m. City Hall, Room 400 Nearby Muni Routes: 5, 19, 21...
Join us for San Francisco’s fifth annual Walk to Work Day this Thursday, April 6 to celebrate foot-based transportation in one of the most walkable cities in the country. Walk to Work Day, organized...
Lowriders cruise at the Carnaval parade in the Mission in 2011. Photo: Carnaval.com Studios/Flickr Events There will be no shortage of events this weekend in San Francisco. Head over to Kezar Stadium...
SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting Tuesday, April 18, 1 p.m. City Hall, Room 400 Nearby Muni Routes: 5, 19, 21, 47, 49, F Market, Metro-Civic Center Station The agenda for tomorrow’s Board of Directors...
A red transit-only lane on Geary at Jones Street. It may come as no surprise that using red paint to highlight transit-only lanes causes fewer drivers to violate them, which helps keep them clear to...
Another fun-filled weekend awaits us – you can cheer on the Giants as they wrap up their first home stand of the season, enjoy the second weekend of the Cherry Blossom Festival and take your pick of...
One-hundred and eleven years ago, in the cool pre-dawn of April 18th, 1906, a massive earthquake rocked San Francisco, forever changing the landscape and future development of our fair, foggy city...
A corner on Vicente Street with existing “front-in” angled parking and “daylighting.” Like most streets in the Outer Sunset, Vicente Street has road space to spare. We’ve proposed changes to Vicente...
In a new experiment on Market Street, we’ve installed four types of safe-hit posts along a block of bike lane. Plastic “safe-hit” posts may be a relatively quick and low-cost way to separate bike...
Events Take advantage of the forecasted sunny weather this weekend by coming downtown to celebrate Earth Day or take in a heart-pounding bicycle race in the Mission. Here are this weekend’s featured...
From the SFMTA’s Director of Transportation: Not long ago, deaths caused by smoking, plane crashes and not wearing seatbelts were accepted as routine and commonplace in ways that are unthinkable in...