Cheering on the M Ocean View’s Big Birthday: How We’re Improving the Line for Riders

Cheering on the M Ocean View’s Big Birthday: How We’re Improving the Line for Riders
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Muni riders use a new boarding island that serves the M Ocean View. The celebration continues for the M Ocean View’s 100th birthday! First, we shared how it all started. Our next stop: how it’s going. Learn about recent upgrades we made along the route based on community feedback. And see what we’re doing next to improve things even more for riders. Working to improve safety and reduce travel times In 2022, the SFMTA launched the M Ocean View Transit and Safety Project to continue to improve the line. We heard from community members that they wanted us to reduce wait and travel times on the M...

Published October 10, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Celebrating 100 Years on the M Ocean View!

Celebrating 100 Years on the M Ocean View!
By Jeremy Menzies

The M Ocean View Line turned 100 years old on October 6! To celebrate this centennial, we are kicking off a two-part blog series on the M. Explore this 100-year history in part one. An M Line streetcar heads down West Portal Avenue in this September, 1972 photo. Before the M The area surrounding the M Ocean View was largely undeveloped farmland until well into the 20th century. Since the 1860s, passenger trains to and from San Jose stopped nearby but service was infrequent and slow. In the early 1900s, electric streetcar lines skirted today’s Oceanview on San Jose Avenue and Ocean Avenue. This...

Published October 09, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Our People, Our Agency, Our City: Celebrating Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month

Our People, Our Agency, Our City: Celebrating Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month
By Melissa Culross

Staff gather for a Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month cable car ride in 2023. It’s Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month, and we’d like you to meet some of our Latine and Hispanic staff. From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 every year, we acknowledge the culture and contributions of Latine and Hispanic communities in San Francisco and throughout the country. But of course, these communities enrich our lives all year long. We are proud that agency staff of all backgrounds commit their time and expertise to making San Francisco the vibrant place it is. The employees we’re introducing you to here are by no...

Published October 02, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Transit Spotlight: Speeding Up Your Rides at Muni’s Top Ten Delay Hot Spots

Transit Spotlight: Speeding Up Your Rides at Muni’s Top Ten Delay Hot Spots
By Julia Flessel, Glennis Markison

Every Muni ride you take matters to us! Learn how we’ve been giving some love to routes across our system that saw the biggest delays. This Transit Month, we are going behind the scenes of our work to improve Muni rides citywide. Today, we showcase our Transit Delay Hot Spots Program. We launched it in 2020 to speed up your rides on the 10 slowest short segments of the entire Muni network. At these delay “hot spots,” Muni crawled from one stop to another at just four miles per hour or less. Since Muni matters so much to local residents, we got to work fixing hot spots across the city. Even as...

Published September 26, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Taken with Transportation Podcast: Hop on Board for Transit Month

Taken with Transportation Podcast: Hop on Board for Transit Month
By Melissa Culross

Muni riders board a J Church train near the intersection of Church and Market streets. We’re celebrating Transit Month on the Taken with Transportation podcast! The love San Francisco has for Muni is on full display in the new episode, “Hop on Board for Transit Month.” “I meet people on the train,” one rider tells us in the episode. “You see all your friends and neighbors out there on Muni.” Lunch with a side of Muni All the sandwiches at the M-Stop Deli are named after Muni lines. “Hop on Board for Transit Month” takes listeners to the M-Stop Deli in the Oceanview neighborhood. San Francisco...

Published September 23, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Walk & Roll to School Week Starts Oct. 6: Help Your Class Win the Golden Sneaker Contest

Walk & Roll to School Week Starts Oct. 6: Help Your Class Win the Golden Sneaker Contest
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Students and caregivers head to school together during Walk & Roll to School Week 2024. Time to lace up your shoes and join us for our annual Walk & Roll to School Week happening Oct. 6 to 10, 2025. Every year, thousands of students across the country walk, bike, scoot and roll to school as a fun and sustainable way of getting around. There are many ways for students and their families to participate. Do one or do them all! Walk, roll, bike and scoot to school every day – it’s that easy! Keep an eye out and join any special events your school might be hosting to celebrate Walk & Roll to School...

Published September 22, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Transit Spotlight: Solving Three Big Challenges to Upgrade Our Iconic Cable Cars

Transit Spotlight: Solving Three Big Challenges to Upgrade Our Iconic Cable Cars
By John Gravener

Crews use a crane to lift one of our cable car sheaves to restore it. This Transit Month, we are going behind the scenes of our work to improve your Muni trips across the city. Today, we shine the spotlight on San Francisco’s cable cars. These cars are more than just iconic symbols of the city. They are a source of pride for those who live here. (Sorry, Golden Gate Bridge – we love you, but these beautiful cars have been around much longer!). Cable cars have been gliding down San Francisco streets since 1873. And the time has come to give them a little refresh. That’s why our teams are hard at...

Published September 18, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Don’t Be a Dodger: A Playful Campaign to Keep Muni Moving

Don’t Be a Dodger: A Playful Campaign to Keep Muni Moving
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The “Don’t be a Dodger” signs are now on Muni buses. In honor of the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers, we are launching a "Don’t be a Dodger" campaign. This playful pun will remind riders, whether they are baseball fans or not, that paying fares for every Muni trip is important. Fares help us provide the fast, frequent and reliable service communities across the city rely on. And riders are giving Muni their highest marks on service in 20 years. To earn their trust and keep Muni moving, we are continuing to focus on a key concern we hear from our customers: fare evasion. Learn how this light...

Published September 12, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Transit Spotlight: Driving a Better 29 Sunset with Your Feedback

Transit Spotlight: Driving a Better 29 Sunset with Your Feedback
By Brian Haagsman

Students use new, improved 29 Sunset stops on Sunset Boulevard. This Transit Month, we’ll go behind the scenes of our work to make your trips safer and more reliable along Muni routes across the city. Every week, we will spotlight a transit project and share how feedback and data have helped us meet community needs. Today, we showcase how a campaign led by SFUSD students inspired a series of upgrades we made along the 29 Sunset. Learn how community feedback helped us drive more reliable rides. And see how you can weigh in by Monday, Sept. 15 to shape proposals for the next six miles of the...

Published September 08, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Prioritizing Safety at Schools Citywide: An Update on Our Crossing Guard Program

Prioritizing Safety at Schools Citywide: An Update on Our Crossing Guard Program
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Our teams work year-round to improve safety at San Francisco schools. That includes crossing guards who support more than 90 campuses citywide. As students across the city head back to class, our teams have been working hard to make sure their trips are safe and reliable. Our Crossing Guard Program is a service we provide to schools and an important part of our work to help students get to and from school safely. Crossing guards are beloved by students, parents, caregivers and neighbors – and right now, we are facing a shortage. While there have been no cuts to the roughly $4 million crossing...

Published August 29, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Supporting Trips to School and Work: Muni Service Changes Start Aug. 30

Supporting Trips to School and Work: Muni Service Changes Start Aug. 30
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Reducing crowding on the 49 Van Ness/Mission is one of our top priorities as we update service on a few routes later this month. We are changing Muni service on a few routes later this month to make it even easier to get to school and work in the morning. These changes are based on direct feedback from riders and operators. They aim to improve your Muni experience by: Addressing weekday crowding on routes used by students Expanding express service for downtown commuters Improving reliability and connections to key destinations including regional transit Weekend changes start Saturday, Aug. 30...

Published August 06, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Shorter, Smoother Rides on Muni Metro: How a Milestone Grant Will Help Us Improve Your Trips

Shorter, Smoother Rides on Muni Metro: How a Milestone Grant Will Help Us Improve Your Trips
By Mariana Maguire

Learn how new funding for our Train Control Upgrade Project will help make your Muni Metro trips more reliable and faster overall. We are working hard to improve your trips on Muni Metro, and a milestone grant will help us make even more progress. We recently won a $41 million state grant from the California Transportation Commission. Its highly competitive Solutions for Congested Corridors Program funds capital infrastructure projects. This grant will provide a vital source of support for our Train Control Upgrade Project (TCUP). The project will overhaul and expand Muni Metro’s outdated...

Published August 01, 2025 at 05:30AM
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New Data on Great Highway Road Closure: How We're Supporting Your Trips

New Data on Great Highway Road Closure: How We're Supporting Your Trips
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Our teams have added new traffic signals to help support your trips in the Outer Sunset. In March 2025, the city closed the Upper Great Highway and the Great Highway Extension, southbound, to make way for its newest park, Sunset Dunes. We have partnered closely with SF Rec and Park, Caltrans, Public Works and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to ease the transition for neighbors and commuters. Once voters passed Proposition K, we got to work right away preparing for potential travel impacts. We used data from an extensive modeling effort – the San Francisco County Transportation...

Published July 25, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Driving Muni’s Comeback Together: May Marked Highest Ridership Recovery Month

Driving Muni’s Comeback Together: May Marked Highest Ridership Recovery Month
By Glennis Markison

You're helping us drive Muni’s strong recovery. Several routes now see more riders than they did pre-pandemic. In May, the 22 Fillmore saw 127% ridership recovery. Our teams have been working hard behind the scenes to make our transit system fast, frequent and reliable. We’re thrilled to see the results: more and more people choosing Muni. May marked our highest ridership recovery month since the pandemic began. And the data shows even more milestones – a comeback you drove just as much as we did. Weekend ridership reached 97% of 2019 levels – our highest weekend numbers since the pandemic...

Published July 08, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Free and Fun and Just a Muni Ride Away: Explore New Downtown Summer Series

Free and Fun and Just a Muni Ride Away: Explore New Downtown Summer Series
By Glennis Markison

One way you can ride in style to downtown events? Hop on an F Market & Wharves historic streetcar. There are so many free and exciting summer series happening downtown this summer, and we’re here to help you explore them. Our partners at the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) are co-sponsoring new and much-loved event series from Mid-Market to the Financial District. Admission is free at each one, and they’re all just a Muni ride away! Check out the list below and don’t miss our Muni travel tips. MINTEDSF: Friday night Happy Hour experiences When: Every Friday from July 4 to...

Published July 03, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Taken with Transportation Podcast: Tip of the Cap (and Gown) to Our Dads and Grads

Taken with Transportation Podcast: Tip of the Cap (and Gown) to Our Dads and Grads
By Melissa Culross

Parking Control Officers Lloyd Glover, Willie Moore and Harold Laughlin are among the dads we profile in our new podcast episode. A lot of things happen as spring ends and summer begins. The days get longer. The weather warms up, in most places, anyway. As we know, San Francisco has its own definition of “summer weather.” And we celebrate dads and grads. In honor of Father’s Day and graduation season, we are profiling some of our own dads and grads in a special episode of our Taken with Transportation podcast. “Tip of the Cap (and Gown) to Our Dads and Grads” features eight members of our...

Published July 02, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Pride Month Staff Spotlight: Driven to Create Inclusive Communications

Pride Month Staff Spotlight: Driven to Create Inclusive Communications
By Glennis Markison

Nehama Rogozen has created inclusive outreach campaigns for several SFMTA projects. All year long, LGBTQ+ staff members across our agency help keep our transit system running and our streets safe. This Pride Month, we want to recognize their impact. Today, we feature Nehama Rogozen, a public relations officer at the SFMTA. Learn why she's so driven to meet our high standard of inclusive outreach – and how it benefits both the public and our staff. Making space for every voice Rogozen has worked at the SFMTA for six and a half years. She started on our Customer Service team and learned a lot...

Published June 24, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Sunday Streets 2025 Kicks Off This Weekend: Join Us

Sunday Streets 2025 Kicks Off This Weekend: Join Us
By Danbee Song

Families enjoying the car-free space during Sunday Streets. This weekend, Sunday Streets returns to transform San Francisco’s neighborhoods into vibrant, car-free community spaces. The series kicks off Sunday in the Tenderloin: When: June 15, 12 to 4 p.m. Where: Golden Gate Avenue between Hyde and Jones streets From June through October, Livable City, in partnership with the SFMTA and other city agencies, will host six Sunday Streets events. And you won’t want to miss the fifth annual Phoenix Day — a citywide celebration of connection, safety and public space. Learn about this year’s theme...

Published June 13, 2025 at 05:30AM
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Making it Easier to Find and Pay for Parking: Behind Our Work to Upgrade Nearly 27,000 Meters

Making it Easier to Find and Pay for Parking: Behind Our Work to Upgrade Nearly 27,000 Meters
By Pamela Johnson

SFMTA crews replaced thousands of meters across the city with new ones that are easier to use. We recently finished upgrading every single parking meter in San Francisco – covering about 26,700 spaces -- to make it easier for you to park your car anywhere in the city. The new meters we installed through our Citywide Parking Meter Replacement Project: Make it easier to understand requirements and choose a payment option. Meters now have larger, brighter screens with more legible text and an intuitive user interface. Support customers who speak languages other than English. Meters now offer the...

Published June 04, 2025 at 05:30AM
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'On Your Left' and E-Bikes: SFMTA Employees' Tips on Successful Bike Commuting

'On Your Left' and E-Bikes: SFMTA Employees' Tips on Successful Bike Commuting
By Madhu Unnikrishnan

Members of our SFMTA bike-commute panel: From left, Julia Friedlander, Michael Rhodes and Jack Anninos (not pictured: Elliot Goodrich, Christy Osorio and Miriam Sorell). Between our typically mild weather and expansive bicycle network, San Francisco is pretty much ideal for bike commuting. And indeed, the city has among the highest percentage of bike commuters in the U.S. We’ve done a lot of work to make San Francisco more bike friendly. We have a 400-mile bike network that includes more than 130 miles of dedicated bike lanes, 87 miles of off-street paths and 51 miles of bike lanes that are...

Published May 29, 2025 at 05:30AM
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