There were plenty of stories in 2022 that I enjoyed reporting on and several stories that I’d rather not reminisce about, but this year kept me busy. Five stories that stood out for me include the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency finally completing two of its most expensive and delayed…

BART’s Powell Street Station is looking a bit brighter and more spacious. The brighter lights, new ceiling and the relocation of fare machines from the center to the side of the station is part of BART’s completed Powell Street Modernization Program. City and transit officials celebrated the completion of the…

A proposal to keep the current configuration of the Great Highway car-free on weekends for an additional three years as a pilot program is moving forward to the full San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Supervisors Myrna Melgar, Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin, who sit on the Land Use and Transportation…

Pedestrian safety advocates and elected officials last week joined a vigil at Civic Center Plaza and San Francisco City Hall in remembering the lives lost in traffic crashes this year and the hundreds of those who were severely injured in a crash. The 9th annual World Day of Remembrance for…

No, a spaceship did not land in San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza. Instead, it’s a new, shiny, self-cleaning public restroom that is open for business. The new restroom, which looks like it’s about to take off any moment into space, will replace all of the 25 Parisian style green JCDecaux public…

Just two days left until the soft opening of San Francisco’s $1.95 billion Central Subway. It’s a soft opening of the new subway because Muni shuttle trains will only service the new stations, including the street-level Fourth and Brannan station as well as the Yerba Buena/Moscone, Union Square/Market Street and…

Launched in 1999, San Francisco was ahead of the game when launching NextBus, which gave passengers a time prediction on when the next Muni bus or train was arriving. About 23 years later, the outdated technology that runs NextBus finally got some much-needed upgrades over the weekend. The San Francisco…

While pedestrian scrambles are rare to see in most parts of San Francisco, city officials last week activated Chinatown’s second pedestrian scramble in five years. The newest pedestrian scramble, located at the intersection of Kearny and Jackson streets, was part of a package of pedestrian improvements in District 3 funded…

Muni passengers will soon be able to take a one-seat ride towards downtown on the L-Taraval bus again. Well, sort of. Supervisor Gordon Mar, who represents the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods, said the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will run an hourly L-Taraval bus service from the Zoo to downtown…