{"id":399791,"date":"2026-07-15T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399791\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:35:12","slug":"video-why-is-muni-the-only-rail-operator-in-america-that-bans-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399791\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Why is Muni the Only Rail Operator in America That Bans Bikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mark the start of our summer fund drive, Streetsblog San Francisco is dropping its newest short video! Won\u2019t you <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/make-a-donation-to-streetsblog-san-francisco\">make a donation<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around the world, transit operators work hard to encourage people to combine bike and train journeys to solve the so-called <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/la.streetsblog.org\/2023\/09\/21\/guest-opinion-metro-should-treat-walk-and-bike-projects-with-the-respect-they-deserve\">\u201clast mile\u201d problem<\/a>. This increases ridership and just generally makes a system more usable for people who may live a ways from the train and\/or are heading somewhere a couple of miles from the nearest station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not Muni rail in San Francisco. As part of <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/2026\/06\/16\/streetsblog-sf-moving-into-video-how-you-can-help-us-do-more\">Streetsblog San Francisco\u2019s expansion plans<\/a>, we\u2019re proud to introduce our latest short-video effort, which asks the question: why is Muni the only rail operator that still bans bikes on board?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you like our content, consider <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/make-a-donation-to-streetsblog-san-francisco\">a donation<\/a> so we can continue our work. No amount is too small or too large. Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/make-a-donation-to-streetsblog-san-francisco\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/801-8012252_orange-donate-now-button.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-417025\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.234384944085826;width:477px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark the start of our summer fund drive, Streetsblog San Francisco is dropping its newest short video!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[109921,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-399791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-promoted","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}