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In a city where long waits at bus stop are common and many riders are senior citizens, college student Charles Molnar had an idea: Why not build some benches?

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By PAUL ELIAS

SAN FRANCISCO - In this city of innumerable tourist attractions, the clanging, hill-conquering cable cars stand out as a top draw.

The quaint conveyances also stand out for the inordinate number of accidents and the millions of dollars annually the city pays out to settle lawsuits for broken bones, severed feet and bad bruises caused when 19th-century technology runs headlong into 21st-century city traffic and congestion.

SAN FRANCISCO -- In this city of innumerable tourist attractions, the clanging, hill-conquering cable cars stand out as a top draw.

The quaint conveyances also stand out for the inordinate number of accidents and the millions of dollars annually the city pays out to settle lawsuits for broken bones, severed feet and bad bruises caused when 19th-century technology runs headlong into 21st-century city traffic and congestion.

In this city of innumerable tourist attractions, the clanging, hill-conquering cable cars stand out as a top draw.

When Jason Torchinsky's beloved VW Beetle was stolen, he was lucky enough to get some help from the Internet. Thousands of cars are stolen every year in the U.S., and they are difficult to recover.

Two people were hospitalized after being shot while aboard a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus in San Francisco's Inner Mission District Sunday night, police said.

Every time it looks like the saga of the anti-Islamic ads on the sides of San Francisco's public buses seems just about over, one side or the other ups the stakes.

San Francisco transit officials have awarded $900,000 to the widow of longtime Oakland Tribune writer Bill Brand after he was struck and killed by a Muni train in 2009.

The fight over place of Islam in popular culture came roaring back to the forefront of San Francisco public transit recently as a series of anti-Islamic billboards from the American Freedom Defense Initiative began running on Muni buses across the city this week.The ads, which closely mimic the style of a separate campaign run on the transit system earlier this year by MyJihad, sh

A man was found dead in an elevator shaft at the Montgomery BART and San Francisco Municipal Railway station Sunday night, a BART police lieutenant said.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A woman who was struck by a San Francisco Municipal Railway light-rail vehicle Thursday afternoon has life-threatening injuries, a fire spokeswoman said.

I wonder whether we have set the best standard for ethics in public life. As the head of a state-supported institution of higher education, I hold a rather minor office. In that role, I have seen how people are impressed -- positively as much as negatively -- by symbolism that should not be significant at all.

Whenever I exit the building for an appointment, I know that I am setting an example whether I mean to or not. I don't object to this scrutiny. It's part and parcel of the job.

Eileen Barrett, 72, of Daly City, was hit just before 4:30 p.m. Saturday by an outbound 18 46th Avenue bus near the intersection of John Muir and Lake Merced boulevards. She died shortly after.

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As the vast archives of the BART Idiot Hall of Fame prove somewhat incontrovertibly, there's something about BART that attracts bad behavior.

Injuries were reported after an accident involving a San Francisco Municipal Railway cable car this morning, according to fire officials.

San Francisco, London, even Vancouver are great places to ride the rails

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SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco parking control officers will begin issuing tickets to vehicles at expired meters on Sundays starting this weekend, city officials said.