Tag: muni
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Open letter: Nat Ford’s severance package
To the mayor and city supervisors: Since we’ve decided to honor former SFMTA director Nat Ford’s $384,000 severance package, I would like to propose that we provide these funds in the form of a pre-loaded Clipper card. Please note that funds on a Clipper card are not refundable, and can only be used for transit.…
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Escalator temporarily stairs at Church St.
“An escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. You will never see an escalator out of order sign, just ‘escalator temporarily stairs — sorry for the convenience.’” – Mitch Hedberg It’s already been fixed, but the other day the handrail came off the guide rail at Church St. station. Interestingly, the rubber rail…
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The Treats of San Francisco
A Quinn-Martin production! Wait… what? This is some kind of cheesy Muni ad for buying a Muni Passport and visiting Ghirardelli Square. It has nothing to do with Karl Malden and/or Michael Douglas.
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Dangerous Muni Metro tricks
Muni Diaries recently mentioned a couple of dangerous Muni Metro tricks at Van Ness Station. An unusual way to ride the escalator Bad place to wait for a train Stupid? Dangerous? Insane? Yes, yes, and yes. But there’s even dumber things you can do on Muni. And I’ve seen it! In the mid 2000s, I…
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Muni needs signal priority
The SFMTA recently announced some big changes to the messy intersection at Church and Duboce, which is a notorious mess for Muni Metro, the 22 line, bicycles, private vehicles, and pedestrians. Streetsblog covered the changes in depth in an excellent article. One strange aspect to the renovation which Streetsblog mentions is that there will still…
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Muni’s repeated derailments
You’d think that the title of 6th best public transit system in the country would mean something. Or at the very least you’d think that at the point where you’re the 6th best at something, you’re not repeating your own mistakes. But you’d be wrong. Today’s Muni Metro derailment sounds awfully familiar. A train suddenly…
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Muni: 6th best in the country!?
It should come as no surprise that Muni isn’t the best transit agency in the country, what with all the waiting, slow speeds, and crashes. But would you believe they clock in at number 6? No, neither do I. In this video from CBS 5, Mike Sugerman interviews a number of Muni riders about this…
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Freebies from Muni?
When I wrote the infamous post bitching about Muni service, Worst Day on Muni Ever, I intentionally excluded one detail. Despite partially redeeming Muni, I felt this detail didn’t add much to the story. But more importantly this little detail cost Muni money; I wanted to give them time to fix their mistake before I…
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True Tales of Muni: The Crackhead
I used to live just off the L Taraval line. One evening memorable evening I was taking an inbound 1-car L and sitting in the back half facing the rear. An older man, maybe in his late 60’s, was sitting in the sideways seat at the rear of the train, slouching and grumbling to himself.…
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