{"id":928,"date":"2011-02-11T19:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:37:13","slug":"munis-repeated-derailments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/munis-repeated-derailments\/","title":{"rendered":"Muni&#8217;s repeated derailments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;d think that the title of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/muni-6th-best-in-the-country\/\">6th best public transit system in the country<\/a> would mean something. Or at the very least you&#8217;d think that at the point where you&#8217;re the 6th best at something, you&#8217;re not repeating your own mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you&#8217;d be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sfappeal.com\/news\/2011\/02\/muni-metro-derails-at-castro-station-service-stopped-or-slowed-all-over-city.php\">Muni Metro derailment<\/a> sounds awfully familiar. A train suddenly came off the tracks between Castro and Forrest Hill station, and nobody knows how it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does it sound familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the same thing happened in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/local\/cause-muni-derailment-under-investigation\">November of 2009.<\/a> And if that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, the exact same scenario happened in <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=4424224\">August of 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allegedly, Muni <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/local\/muni-metro-trackway-trouble-unresolved\">tried to fix the tracks in 2007,<\/a> several months after the first derailment. But that didn&#8217;t solve the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, train systems are not a new technology; the basics are old and well understood. There&#8217;s no excuse for deferred maintenance and half-assed fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that the title of 6th best public transit system in the country would mean something. Or at the very least you&#8217;d think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Muni's repeated derailments - MrEricSir.com","description":"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'r"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[383,91,1422,384,23],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-derailment","tag-muni","tag-rant","tag-repeated-mistakes","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10390,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}