The Dissent

Someone posted online this week looking for a road buddy for the six-hour slog from SF to LA.

In a move that apparently nobody asked for and nobody was told about, FasTrak has been quietly retiring its beloved…

Muni riders are a patient people. They endure phantom buses, bunched arrivals, and stops so frequent you could…

Here's a fun exercise: imagine handing someone $590 million and then watching them come back a few months later saying…

If you were on Highway 880 recently and narrowly avoided becoming a hood ornament, you're not alone.

Here's a fun thought experiment: if two planes got within half a mile of each other, it would make national news.

If you tried to catch the N-Judah westbound yesterday afternoon, congratulations — you got to experience San…

If you've set foot in Montgomery Station recently — or really any time in the last decade — you already know the vibe.

Here's a brain teaser for you: What do you get when a government agency removes a functional bike lane from the…

A family of four crashed while biking across the 4th Street bridge over Mission Creek around 6:30 PM recently.

Here's a fun thought experiment: imagine you're walking down Third Street in the Dogpatch, minding your own business…

Here's how bad the e-scooter situation in San Francisco has gotten: residents are now grateful when a delivery moped…

San Francisco's iconic cable cars are about to get a whole lot pricier — and a whole lot more complicated.

If you've ever ridden the 1 California from the Richmond to downtown, you know the drill: the bus crawls down…

Here's a question nobody at BART or SamTrans is asking: what if the best way to get to San Francisco International…

San Francisco loves a good panic, and the latest trigger is a weekend lane closure on 19th Avenue.

Here's a fun exercise: try to get from San Jose to Marin County using public transit.

The SFMTA just approved its new budget, and if you were hoping the city's transit agency had discovered fiscal…

Here's a radical concept for Bay Area governance: if you build infrastructure that actually enforces the rules, people…

If you commute through BART's Embarcadero station with any regularity, you've developed calves of steel — not by…

Muni just passed a two-year budget, and before the ink was dry, agency leaders were already teeing up the next ask…

A Bureaucratic Groundhog Day Imagine selling your car, destroying the plates, notifying the DMV, removing the vehicle…

Every few weeks, the Bay Area's collective road rage boils over into a familiar debate: who are the worst drivers?

While SFMTA burns through millions on apps and consulting contracts, one Bay Area commuter just casually built a live…