San Francisco Transit Riders

Pop-up Transit Art Fair
2025-09-24 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Salesforce Transit Center
​What do art and transit have in common? It moves us.
​Celebrate Bay Area Transit month by shopping and supporting local artists at TJPA’s Salesforce Transit Center, where the Bay Area’s transportation future is taking shape.
​Learn about the rail modernization projects, including The Portal and California High-Speed Rail, interact with #ThePortalSFtoHSR art installation, and buy transit merch from MUNI and BART.
​Raffle prizes will be sponsored by SF Transit Riders, BART, and SFMTA.
​Featuring artists including: Bionyo Illustrations, Shane Donahue, Lily Poppy Art, Miriam Sweeney, Alvar Jacomet, Gibby.SF, Rondo Fish, Christine Innes, Shrey Purohit, and more!

Sunday Streets: Western Addition
2025-09-21 12:00 - 16:00 | Western Addition

Muni Heritage Weekend - Sunday
2025-09-21 10:00 - 16:00 | San Francisco Railway Museum, 77 Steuart Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Our annual tradition is back! This year’s Heritage Weekend gives you the chance to ride vintage transit vehicles that rarely make an appearance on San Francisco’s streets. Look out for classics like the Boat Tram, the Milan and Melbourne streetcars, and the 1896 “Dinky.”
​​All rides begin at the plaza across from the San Francisco Railway Museum, just steps from the Ferry Building and Embarcadero Plaza. From there, vintage buses and special excursion cars will head out for round-trip journeys.
​​Be sure to stop by the museum during your visit. Inside you’ll find exhibits on transit history along with our gift shop, and the Muni Store will be setting up a special pop-up with even more transit-themed gear.

Muni Heritage Weekend - Saturday
2025-09-20 10:00 - 16:00 | San Francisco Railway Museum, 77 Steuart Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
​Our annual tradition is back! This year’s Heritage Weekend gives you the chance to ride vintage transit vehicles that rarely make an appearance on San Francisco’s streets. Look out for classics like the Boat Tram, the Milan and Melbourne streetcars, and the 1896 “Dinky.”
​All rides begin at the plaza across from the San Francisco Railway Museum, just steps from the Ferry Building and Embarcadero Plaza. From there, vintage buses and special excursion cars will head out for round-trip journeys.
​Be sure to stop by the museum during your visit. Inside you’ll find exhibits on transit history along with our gift shop, and the Muni Store will be setting up a special pop-up with even more transit-themed gear.

Ride & Zine with ComMUNIty Magazine
2025-09-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Standard Deviant Brewing, 280 14th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Hop on Muni to get the first copy of ComMUNIty – a magazine celebrating Muni. Grab a beer, meet your neighbors, + share your Muni stories

Pop-Up Transit Gallery
2025-09-05 16:00 - 20:00 | San Francisco Railway Museum, 77 Steuart Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
​Market Street Railway and Castro Art Walk are collaborating to honor the connection between art and transit. For one night only, the San Francisco Railway Museum will be transforming into a pop-up gallery featuring art from the transit community!
​Ride the F-Line to the Castro for the remainder of the Art Walk locations, celebrating the vibrant public art along Market Street.
​Don’t miss this unique night of art, history, and community – see you there!

Sunday Streets: Mission
2025-07-20 11:00 - 16:00 | Valencia Street & Duboce Avenue

State Transit Transformation Task Force meeting in San Francisco
2025-04-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Bay Area Metro Center, 375 Beale St., San Francisco, CA, Temezcal Room
​The Transit Transformation Task Force (Task Force), created by CalSTA, is required to solicit and develop a structured, coordinated process for engagement of all parties to develop policy recommendations to grow transit ridership and improve the transit experience for all users of those services.
​This upcoming meeting will be hosted in San Francisco and is open to the public.
​Find more information and the full agenda here.
​Watch online here.

Protect Muni Now Keep Muni Forever Rally
2025-03-18 11:00 - 12:00 | City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
​Come rally with the Muni Now Muni Forever Campaign on March 18th before the SFMTA board makes their final decision on Muni’s summer service cuts.
​Afterward, join the campaign for public comment urging the board to not cut service or programs and instead use the agency’s reserve or the city’s general fund.
​The meeting is in Room 400. More details here.

Thrive with Bay Area Transportation Summit
2024-10-30 08:30 - 11:00 | San José State University, 1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA, 95192, United States
Step into the future of transportation at this Bay Area in-person summit to consider how abundant, affordable, accessible, and safe transportation transforms the ways we move and live. Connect and collaborate with industry leaders, elected officials, disability & environmental justice advocates, and more in a discussion moderated by Mineta Transportation Institute’s Executive Director Dr. Karen Philbrick. Don’t miss this opportunity to be at the forefront of change and discover how we can thrive as a region!

Sunday Streets: 4th Annual Phoenix Day
2024-10-20 12:00 - 17:00
Celebrate 16 years of Sunday Streets SF transforming San Francisco streets into car-free community spaces for all to enjoy at events across the City in 2024.
Sunday Streets SF empowers local communities to transform miles of streets into car-free spaces filled with cultural programming, health resources, local vendors, and recreational opportunities for all ages. The Sunday Streets SF program is generously supported by the City family, with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) serving as the presenting agency sponsor.

Sunday Streets: SoMa
2024-10-13 12:00 - 17:00

Sunday Streets: Western Addition
2024-09-22 12:00 - 17:00

Ribbon Cutting Celebration: Extending the Muni 30 with a new Presidio Terminus
2024-09-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Crissy Field, 1199 E Beach, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Join Us to Celebrate the Muni 30 Stockton Extension & New Presidio Terminus

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency and Presidio Trust have extended Muni 30 Stockton further into Crissy Field and added a new turnaround with public restrooms. Come celebrate a new way to access and enjoy your national park site!

Downtown First Thursdays
2024-09-05 17:00 - 22:00 | 2nd Street
San Francisco– It’s time to get moving at DFT! The September 5th edition of Downtown San Francisco’s already-beloved street party will feature a 60+ person orchestra, ballet, breakdance, whirling dervishes, a second line brass band, live jazz on an open air F-Train, and DJs (including San Francisco’s own, the legendary Spencer Brown) that will keep attendees of all ages dancing in the streets.
A new, expanded outdoor drinking area at DFT means drinks are on the move, too! Take your beer or cocktails purchased at outdoor bars (at 2nd and Stevenson Street and 2nd and Natoma Street) roaming throughout the DFT footprint.
Plus, a transformed F-Train will get attendees moving between DFT’s street party on 2nd Street and UNSTAGED. Live on Mid-Market—a new, free, interactive, live performance experience on Market Street between 5th and 6th Street produced by Market Street Arts featuring a vertical dance performance by Bandaloop and dozens of other activations. Celebrate Transit Month in style and travel between UNSTAGED. and DFT on the F-Train as it becomes a mobile jazz venue, the Hotsy Totsy Club, created by Building 180 in collaboration with Mystic Midway. (UNSTAGED. Live on Mid-Market is an official partner event of DFT).
The September 5 edition of DFT will feature a DJ set by Special Guest Performer Spencer Brown, presented by The Midway, from 7-9pm on Howard and 2nd Street.
DFT is FREE with RSVP. Attendees can register for September 5th DFT for a chance to win a FREE pair of two-day GA passes to Fresh Start, The Midway’s New Year Block Party!
The creative partners transforming 2nd Street every month include a lineup of San Francisco’s most renowned and prolific music and culture producers: The Midway, Another Planet Entertainment, Noise Pop, KALW , Grace Towers, A LITTLE x, and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

MTC Select Committee: Constructing the Path Forward
2024-08-26 09:30 - 17:00 | Bay Area Metro Center, 375 Beale St., San Francisco, CA, Temezcal Room
Some Select Committee members see a sales tax as the path of least resistance, so we need to show up and show them that while we might not be well-funded, we are organized and opposed to regressive taxes that will harm working families!
At this meeting, the Select Committee will be weighing in on various regional measure scenarios to study. Please join your fellow VPT members at the meeting to advocate for a scenario that is progressively funded and covers all nine Bay Area Counties. We know that being timid will only be harmful — that what Bay Area voters actually want is a measure that will transform public transit into a system that actually works! Now we just need to convince the Select Committee and we are going to need all hands on deck to do that.

Sunday Streets: Mission/Valencia
2024-08-25 11:00 - 16:00

Sunday Streets — Mission Ciclovía
2024-08-25 11:00 - 15:00 | Valencia Street & Duboce Avenue
​We’ll be tabling at Sunday Streets — Mission! Come help us operate our button maker, register voters, hand out flyers, and generally spread the word about the ComMUNIty Transit Act and Muni funding.
​Sunday Streets is a program of the non-profit Livable City. They’ve endorsed the ComMUNIty Transit Act from the start! Check out the Mission details here: https://www.sundaystreetssf.com/mission/

Door Knocking for Prop L (Community Transit Act)
2024-08-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Duboce Avenue & Steiner Street
​Let’s canvass for Prop L! No experience or knowledge about the measure required. You’ll be trained at the start of the event, you’ll get a buddy to knock doors with, and you’ll have a script.
​This is the most important work to reach voters and win funding for Muni service in November. We need all the canvassers we can get!
​What to Bring

​Sunscreen
​Water
​Snack
​Comfortable clothes and shoes to walk in
​Your smartphone

​MiniVAN
​We’ll be using MiniVAN to see which doors to knock on and note whether we have their YES vote on Prop L. Download MiniVAN for iOS or Android now to save some time at the event.

ComMUNIty Transit Act Kickoff!
2024-08-22 18:30 - 20:30 | El Rio, 3158 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Let’s win in November! Come celebrate our qualification for the ballot at El Rio‘s back patio.
​More details to come. RSVP for updates!

Sunday Streets: Bayview
2024-08-04 12:00 - 17:00

Downtown First Thursdays
2024-08-01 17:00 - 22:00 | 2nd Street
A FREE street party bringing live music, all-ages activities, DJs, drag, outdoor bars, food trucks, and the biggest disco ball west of the Mississippi to 2nd Street is back on August 1. This past month saw unprecedented crowds pour into San Francisco’s Downtown for July 4, and August’s Downtown First Thursday is set to continue to grow the event into a must-attend celebration.
The August 1st edition of DFT will feature a DJ set by Special Guest Performer Vandelux as part of an Outside Lands Warm-Up presented by Another Planet Entertainment from 7-9pm on Howard and 2nd Street.
DFT is FREE with RSVP: Free tickets for August 1 available here.

Sunday Streets: Excelsior
2024-07-21 11:00 - 16:00

Downtown First Thursdays
2024-07-04 17:00 - 22:00 | 1324 Adeline St, Oakland, CA 94607
A FREE street party bringing live music, all-ages activities, DJs, drag, outdoor bars, food trucks, and the biggest disco ball west of the Mississippi to 2nd Street is back on July 4. Tens of thousands of people attended the first two DFTs, and this holiday weekend is set to see big crowds fill the streets again.
The July 4 edition of DFT will feature Special Guest Performers Coco and Breezy, a Glow in the Dark Parade at 9:00pm, and a hot dog eating contest hosted by local drag legend Peaches Christ.

Meet the SFMTA Board Candidate: Mike Chen
2024-07-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
San Francisco Transit Riders, Walk San Francisco, and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition are proud to host a member event with Mike Chen, Mayor Breed’s latest nominee to the SFMTA Board. If you are a member of any of these organizations, come join us on Tuesday, July 2nd, from 6:00-7:30pm, over Zoom!
Mike is a data engineer with a history of working in the internet industry in marketing and product analytics. Mike joined the SFMTA Citizens’ Advisory Council in January 2020 and served as its Chair from July 2021 through July 2023. Mike is a frequent rider of Muni lines 1, 38 and 49, and uses both his own e-bike and bikeshare to get around the city. An advocate for housing, transportation, and urbanist causes, Mike has been an organizer in his neighborhood and a volunteer lead for YIMBY Action.
Have questions for Board Nominee Chen? Questions will be taken both before and during the event, and asked by a moderator. Sign-up here, and start thinking about what you’d like to learn!

Sunday Streets: Tenderloin
2024-06-23 12:00 - 17:00

How to Win Better Transportation in Your Bay Area Community
2024-05-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom
Frustrated by late buses, infrequent trains, unsafe biking conditions or broken sidewalks? The good news is YOU can win the changes you want to see in your community. It takes work and organizing so tune in to this special training from the Transbay Coalition and Voices for Public Transportation to learn how you can organize and win the changes you want to see in your community.
Attendees will learn:
-How to translate your dream into a concrete political demand
-How to get others on board with the demand so you are all heard
-How to get decision makers to follow through on their promises
-How Transbay Coalition and Voices for Public Transportation will support you in your effort
Register here to get the Zoom link for the event.

ComMUNIty Transit Act: Signature gathering at Clement Farmer’s Market
2024-05-19 10:00 - 15:00 | Clement
Sign up for a volunteer signature gathering event or deep-dive training to help get the ComMUNIty Transit Act on the ballot.

You can join any signature gathering event without prior training, though an RSVP via the Google form is appreciated. Deep-dive trainings are a way to start leading your own signature gathering shifts, learn more about the ballot measure, and get to know other volunteer organizers!

ComMUNIty Transit Act: Signature gathering near Alamo Square (Bay to Breakers)
2024-05-19 08:00 - 11:00 | Alamo Square

ComMUNIty Transit Act: Signature gathering at Precita Park
2024-05-18 13:30 - 15:30 | Precita Park
