Two hearings will take place next month to update the public on the environmental review process of Muni’s long-awaited, never-employed Transit Effectiveness Project.
Mayor Ed Lee is staying on message when it comes to Occupy SF. He stops short of giving a specific deadline, but says his message to the occupiers is strong and clear: get into compliance.
While SF Beautiful celebrated the legal ruling that put a hold on AT&T’s plan to install 4-foot-high utility boxes around San Francisco, AT&T remained confident it will ultimately prevail in the case.
San Francisco has restrictions on chain stores that have been modified over the years both by voters and the Board of Supervisors. Now, Supervisor Eric Mar is examining how they are working and if there is a need for increased controls.
The battle over AT&T’s plan to install up to 726 utility boxes throughout San Francisco is now in the courts and San Francisco Beautiful is celebrating Monday’s decision by Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn to prevent any box installations while the legal battle continues.
Following reports that two workers inappropriately carried out engineering tests on the Bay Bridge’s rebuilt eastern span, an independent commission will review all safety records of the project.
On Nov. 6, Jesse Morris, also known as “Punk Rock Johnny Cash” died after years of entertaining BART riders with his playing of Johnny Cash tunes at the 24th Street BART station. On Tuesday, Supervisor John Avalos introduced a memorial to honor his passing.“I will start off paraphrasing Johnny Cash: ‘I hear the BART training a-coming, it’s squealing ‘round the bend,’” Avalos said.
Brooklyn sculpture artist Tom Otterness shot and killed a dog on film and called it art in 1977 when he was 25 years old. But that act, which he has apologized for throughout years, continues to haunt his successful career and ignites debates whenever he is selected for public art commissions.
It’s a situation that every Muni passenger knows all too well — you wait for 30 minutes at your stop without a single vehicle in sight, and then all of a sudden five different buses arrive simultaneously.There is a term for that unpleasant scenario — it’s called “bunches and gaps” — and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs Muni, wants to cut down significantly on those problems over the next six years.
