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SFO: The Rare Government-Adjacent Thing That Actually Works
We spend a lot of time around here pointing out where Bay Area institutions fall short. So let's give credit where it's due: SFO is genuinely, surprisingly good...
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Muni, BART, bike lanes, and the city's slow fight over its streets.
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Pedestrians Playing Frogger With Their Lives — And We're All Just Supposed to Be Cool With It?
If you've driven through San Francisco recently — particularly anywhere near the Tenderloin — you already know: pedestrian safety isn't just about crosswalks an...
Tenderloin·
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The Underground Art of Riding Muni (Because the Official System Won't Help You)
Forget everything SFMTA's glossy brochures tell you about getting around San Francisco. The real transit knowledge lives in the heads of battle-hardened daily r...
Richmond District·
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Hit and Run at Bay Bridge Toll Plaza: Another Day, Another Driver Who Chose Violence Then Fled
A hit-and-run incident near the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza this morning is a fresh reminder that lawlessness on Bay Area roads isn't just an abstract policy debate —...
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SFO Scores Direct Flights to Sapporo — And Yes, It's Cheaper Than Tahoe
San Francisco International Airport just landed something skiers, foodies, and Japan enthusiasts have been dreaming about: the first-ever direct flight from the...
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Bay to Breakers Is This Weekend — Here's What It'll Cost You in Sanity
Bay to Breakers returns this weekend, which means San Francisco's streets will once again be handed over to costumed runners, day-drinkers in salmon suits, and...
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Someone Tagged Over Highway Signs and the City Actually Fixed It Fast — Let's Talk About That
Here's something you don't hear every day: the city did its job, and it did it quickly. Just a few days ago, highway signs in San Francisco were tagged so badl...
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Muni Survival Guide: The Unwritten Rules SF Riders Had to Learn the Hard Way
There's a beautiful irony in a city that spent billions on a transit system that requires its riders to develop an informal PhD in route hacking just to get to...
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Mastering Muni: The Underground Science of Actually Getting Somewhere in SF
There's a certain romance to San Francisco that never quite fades — the fog rolling over Twin Peaks, the Victorian rooflines of the Castro catching the last lig...
Castro·
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Your Daily Reminder: Get a Dashcam or Get Screwed
If you drive in San Francisco and you don't have a dashcam yet, consider this your wake-up call. New dashcam footage circulating among SF drivers shows exactly...
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BART Isn't Dying — It's Just Refusing to Diet
BART wants you to believe it's on the brink of collapse. The messaging is apocalyptic: a "transit crisis," a system teetering on the edge of oblivion, a future...
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Muni Survival 101: Lose the Backpack and Outsmart the Ghost Bus
There are two kinds of Muni riders: the ones who've figured out the system, and the ones making the system worse for everyone else. Let's talk about both. ## T...
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When the City Is the Danger: SF's Unfinished Reckoning with Traffic Deaths
A driver was recently charged in a fatal crash in Chinatown. The details are grim and familiar — a vehicle, a pedestrian, a life ended on a San Francisco street...
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San Francisco Drivers Have Apparently Never Heard of a Yield
There's a special circle of hell reserved for the San Francisco driver who guns it through a left turn while you're halfway through an intersection on a green l...
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Muni's $100-a-Month Promise: Buses That Don't Stop, Drivers Who Don't Care
Here's a question for the SFMTA brass who keep asking San Franciscans to ditch their cars and embrace public transit: What exactly are riders getting for their...
Pacific Heights·
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SF's Tow-First, Ask-Questions-Never Racket Strikes Again
Here's a fun San Francisco experience: you park your car on a perfectly legal street. You go to sleep. You wake up, walk outside, and your car is gone. In its p...
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A Rare Win: Rail Safety Project Comes in $130 Million Under Budget
Mark your calendars, folks — a Bay Area infrastructure project just got *cheaper*. Yes, you read that right. The grade separation project spanning San Bruno an...
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Waymo Goes Full Send Into Oncoming Traffic at 14th and Church
A Waymo autonomous vehicle reportedly drove into oncoming traffic near 14th and Church on a recent evening — after randomly stopping in the intersection, then e...
Castro·
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BART Actually Planning Ahead for Once: World Cup Express Service Announced
Credit where credit is due — BART is doing something that looks suspiciously like competent planning. Ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches coming to the Ba...
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Muni's Morning Meltdown: When Your Bus Just... Doesn't Show Up
Here's a fun exercise: try to get to work on time using Muni. Riders on the 31 line are reporting that their morning bus simply doesn't show up — roughly 70% o...
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Ghost Plates: Why Half the Cars in the Bay Area Are Becoming Unreadable
Take a drive around San Francisco after dark and play a fun little game: try to read the license plates around you. You'll notice an alarming number of cars rol...
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California's Letting AI Run a Highway — While Most of Our Traffic Lights Are Still Stuck in 1985
Highway 68 between Salinas and Monterey — one of the most notoriously congested corridors in California — is now being managed by an AI-powered traffic system....
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19th Ave Finally Gets Paved and San Franciscans Are Acting Like They Won the Lottery
In a city that spends billions on infrastructure and somehow still manages to make your car feel like it's navigating a warzone, the bar for excitement is appar...
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BART's Biggest Problem Isn't Delays — It's You Standing in the Doorway
There's a certain breed of BART rider — and you've met them — who boards a train, takes exactly two steps past the threshold, and then plants themselves in fron...
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Your 14-Year-Old Is Texting at 20 MPH on an E-Bike. What Could Go Wrong?
Here's a scene that's become depressingly common on San Francisco's streets and sidewalks: a teenager hunched over handlebars, eyes glued to a phone screen, rip...
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BART's Fare Recovery Officers: Recovering What, Exactly?
BART has a fare evasion problem. This is not news. What *is* news — or at least mildly entertaining — is the growing debate among riders about whether the agenc...
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The SFO Parking Hack That Could Save You $12 a Day
Summer travel season is upon us, and if you're flying out of SFO, there's a decent chance you're about to get fleeced on parking without even realizing it. SFO...
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No, Muni Metro Won't Skip Your Underground Stop — But We Get Why You're Nervous
If you've ever ridden a Muni metro train underground and instinctively yanked that stop-request cord — or frantically tapped the yellow strip — as you approache...
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The 'My Bad' Wave Is Dead, and Your Phone Killed It
There was a time — not that long ago — when the social contract of Bay Area driving still held together. You'd space out at a green light, the person behind you...
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Bay Area Drivers Have Declared War on Each Other (and the Zipper Merge)
Every time you think Bay Area drivers can't get worse, someone in a blue Mercedes proves you wrong. Let's talk about the state of driving in the Bay Area, beca...