Author Archives: San Francisco Public Press

It just got a little harder for motorists to navigate around Market Street downtown. And local transportation officials say that’s an improvement.  A pilot program that forces cars heading east to make a right turn from Market Street to Sixth and 10th streets was approved unanimously by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of […]

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, says the pilot program that forces drivers to make a right turn on parts of Market Street is working. The program, which began in Sept. 2009, directs drivers heading east on Market Street to make a right turn on 10th or Sixth streets. The experimental program […]

Late last year Muni got farther from its goal of reaching 85 percent on-time performance. On-time performance dropped from 72.5 percent to 72 percent from July through September last year, in Muni’s latest report. Although the drop was only half a percent, Cameron Beach, director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, […]

Muni’s practice of  leaving passengers at light-rail stops before the end of the run and turning around – known as switchback or short-turning – came under heavy criticism before a Board of Supervisors commitee today. The City Operations & Neighborhood service committee, chaired by Supervisor Carmen Chu, wanted to hear solutions to the problem. Chu, who has […]

Police Chief George Gascon was named San Francisco district attorney by outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom on Sunday and Gascon quickly announced that he would seek election to the post in November. In his final act of office, Newsom swore in Gascon in a hastily arranged ceremony at city hall. The surprise move was the latest in […]

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni and parking and traffic, projects a $21 million budget deficit by the end of the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The latest projections from the agency come at time when new Governor Jerry Brown has said he would like cities and counties to take over some state services […]

Three military veterans who were discharged under the "don’t ask, don’t tell" law, filed a lawsuit against the government Monday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco asking to be reinstated in the military and for the court to declare that the ban on gays in the military is unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed […]

A proposal to put a one-hour limit on parking at broken parking meters failed at Tuesday’s San Francisco Municipal Transportation board meeting in a 3-3 vote. Currently drivers can park in a broken meter space for the posted time limit. The San Francisco Examiner reports that the board proposed the idea as a way to […]

The rainbow banners that line Market Street in the Castro district are in need of replacement, but actually replacing them will be easier said than done.  The issue with replacing the banners, which have been hanging for over a decade, is that they are hanging from historical landmarks, according to the San Francisco Examiner. Preservationists […]