San Francisco

Transit Ridership, SF vs. LA (SFChron)
BART Auditor Quits Because Watchdogging is Hard?(SFStandard)
Muni Subway Closed Early-on St. Paddy's Day (SFExaminer)
Shooting on Muni 49 (SFChron, MissionLocal)
Metered Parking in the Mission (MissionLocal)
More on the Curb as Revenue Source (Governing)
Downtown Oakland vs. Downtown S.F. (SFGate)
Where San Francisco's Money Goes (SFChron)
How Highways Devastated Neighborhoods (BlackPress)
More on Bay Bridge Going Dark (WSJ)
Photo of San Francisco's Historic Railroads (SFStandard)
Commentary: SMART Ridership Bounces Back (MarinIJ)


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Here is a list of events this week.Tuesday Pleasant Hill Bike Plan Town Hall Meeting.Join Council Members Sue Noack and Allen Vinson for an in-person Town Hall meeting to discuss the City's bicycle and pedestrian program and the draft Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan.Tuesday, March 21, 6 p.m. Pleasant Hill City Hall, 100 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill.

Managing Editor/Columnist.Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley.He never left."Your humble narrator" was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017.You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere.

A man allegedly shot another passenger Sunday evening on a No. 49 Muni bus near Mission and 13th streets, police said.The victim was taken to the hospital, and his condition is unknown.The incident occurred at about 5:51 p.m., according to police.The suspect, allegedly wearing a puffy gold jacket and carrying a plastic bag, fled on foot and appeared to have run northbound on 12th Street, according to the Citizen app.

San Francisco police have reportedly launched a search for Chelsea Tamulevich, a 38-year-old woman suspected of abducting her 1-year-old son, Caspian, from a residential facility on Friday evening.CHILD ABDUCTION (1/2) Caspian Tamulevich was taken from a residential facility by his mother, Chelsea Tamulevich, who has no custody rights over Caspian and was not permitted to leave the facility with the child.

The San Francisco Zoo, Northern California's largest zoological park and conservation center, periodically offers free admission for San Francisco residents.When is the next free zoo day for SF residents?The free days are often the first or second Wednesday of the month.But dates often announced on VERY short notice as little as 24 hours in advance and sometimes months are skipped altogether.

A CNN crew was robbed while trying to film a segment at City Hall in San Francisco, correspondent Kyung Lah revealed through Twitter on Friday, providing an image of the windshield to their rental car smashed in.Got robbed.Again.[CNN producer Jason Kravarik] & I were at city hall in San Francisco to do an interview for @CNN, Kah tweeted.

Home Eating & Drinking, Lectures & Workshops, San Francisco Every 3rd Wednesday Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Cost: FREE UN Plaza | Market St. & Hyde St, San Francisco, CA Event Details Submitted by the Event Organizer Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.

CNN correspondent Kyung Lah shared her experience of her car being robbed outside San Francisco's City Hall.@KyungLahCNN: Twitter
A CNN correspondent in San Francisco to report on the city's "rampant street crime" had her rental car broken into Friday - even with hired security tasked with watching the vehicle.

Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle It has become increasingly normal for employers in major cities to offer hybrid or fully remote work since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but San Francisco's employers stand out.Nearly 30% of San Francisco job openings in January 2023 offered hybrid or fully remote work, up from about 5% in 2019.

Devrimb/Getty Images/iStockphoto A bullet grazed a man's head after he and another man got into a verbal argument Thursday night, BART police said.Officials said the argument started around 10 p.m. on an SFO-bound train near the Embarcadero Station when one man pulled out a handgun and began to hit the other with the weapon.