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Guess Who's AGAINST Restoring Muni Service in San Francisco… UPDATED
Have you ever read the news and had that moment where you wonder…are you really reading the news or are you reading a satirical version, like The Onion, instead? When I read last week in the Chronicle that as Muni...
Friday Fun Roundup: A Games Night, A Campaign Office Opening, and More!
Normally when I do these kinds of posts I have some great photo I took of a sunny day around the neighborhood, but as I was going through the latest pictures I've taken, all of them are overcast and gloomy....
Can Muni Owner/Riders Trust the So-Called "Progressive" Muni Charter Amendment? A Challenge to the Supervisors!
My good friend Joe at the SF Weekly blog, the Snitch, has a short post up today with the outline of the so-called "Progressive" Muni Charter Amendment. It covers a number of issues, and I'm going to take a look...
Some Muni Service "Restored" But Only For The Short Term...Let the Vuvuzelas of City Hall Blast Away!
So, a lot of vuvuzelas are being tooted at the MTA and City Hall for this so-called "restoration of service" that the MTA approved today, and that's just lovely. Well, for the vuvuzela-tooters, anyway. Lost in the shuffle is that...
Why TWU Local 250A's "FU" to Muni Owner/Riders Is a Good Thing! Really!
If you've not heard already, then you should know that a plan to eliminate some of the service cuts imposed by Nate Ford, Gavin Newsom and the MTA with some givebacks by our Muni operators was voted down on Friday....
A Call For Calm Reason When Discussing This Alleged MTA Charter Amendment, PLEASE!
Wow, that was fast! Within moments of an announcement of a potential charter amendment to change the way the broken, dysfunctional SFMTA is run, the Mayor's crack team of taxpayer-funded PR people were in full attack mode. Apparently even discussing...
How I Came to Support the "Fix Muni Now" Campaign - The F.A.Q
I figured I'd start the week with a bang, and talk about this Fix Muni Now campaign that just started gathering signatures for a November amendment to the City's Charter (a local constitution, if you will). After being against the...
Big Shock: Thief Arnold Refuses to Sort of Return Stolen Money, Despite Courts, Etc. (corrected)
What a surprise. That bill in the Legislature to get the Governor and, um, the Legislature to follow the laws they broke when they stole money from the gas tax that pays for roads (80%) and transit statewide (20%) was...
Links of Interest: Muni Town Hall Meetings (again), Twitter Talk, Etc.
There's quite a lot going on around town. The biggest and most fascinating and important one is of course a Town Hall Meeting on Muni, tonight at 6pm at Muni HQ. A word of advice if you plan on attending...
A Response to TWU's "Memo" that Littered Buses Today, And Other Muni Detritus
So I go turn on the Twitter, and it seems many people riding a bus or train this morning got these printed screeds from TWU, who apparently in the second decade of the 21st century, thought the best way to...
Talking About Muni Safety and Crime with Sup. Chu, the SFMTA, the SFPD and More!
There's no denying that Muni safety and crime are of concern to citizens right now. What with the much-publicized fight on YouTube, the gang-related incident that sent a young person to the hospital on Monday, and the many other incidents...
The Shenanigans Begin on the Eve of Today's Budget and Finance Committee Meeting...
At 1:30 today the Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee Meeting will be held, and Sup. Chiu's move to veto the SFMTA budget and ask them to come up with a more realistic plan will be up for discussion....
Return to San Francisco and Budget Armageddon...Make Your Voice Heard Now!
I'm back! After a whirlwind tour of Washington DC, New York City (by way of bullet train) and some of the finest layover airports in America, I'm back. While I was able to sort of keep up on The Twitter...
Don't Forget! MUNI Town Hall Meeting December 3rd!
Showboat! I'm busy working on the N Judah Chronicles Holiday Shopping Guide this weekend, but in the meantime, I wanted to do some promo for the MUNI Town Hall Meeting on December 3rd at the SF County Fair Building...
Proposition P: Politics and Posturing Promoting Poor Policy = No on P, Please...
(Originally published at Beyond Chron.org 10/01/2008 so it was written for an audience that might not be as familiar with the NJC as readers here might be.) Just about anyone who lives in San Francisco has an opinion about MUNI...
Hey! BeyondChron.org Gave Me A Guest Editorial!
My friend Paul Hogarth, who edits BeyondChron.org asked me to write a short editorial on Proposition P and it appeared today. Go check it out! The City Hall back and forth about the SFCTA that led to this measure was...
The Axes Fall Soon....Final Transit Effectiveness Project Vote Coming Sept. 16!
The Transit Effecitiveness Project, the alleged saviour of Our MUNI, is about to bring down the hammer on the proposed changes to MUNI with a Big Meeting with Public Comment where the MTA board will politely listen to folks...
Reader Mail: Catch Up Day - Safety, Good News, and More - UPDATED
With all the attention the site has received recently, there's been a lot more Reader Mail coming in, and it's easy for me to sometimes lose track of it during a busy week. Here now we catch up with readers...
Promises, Promises: The N Won't Stop At 19th? Um, Yeah, Great, But...
One of the most common complaints of Loyal Readers since this blog started in 2005 has been the random, infuriating, and sometimes dangerous arbitrary turnarounds at 19th and Judah Street by N Judah operators. The effect is not just annoying...
MUNI Drivers to Go On Strike? No, But....
Some bad news seems to be brewing over at MUNI these days....the Chronicle and KCBS report that the driver's union and MUNI management are going rather poorly. The driver's union leadership walked out of talks, and Executive Director Nathaniel Ford...
Oh Here We Go: Board Vs. Mayor Fight, Round 3, MUNI Edition...And The Fallout for Us..
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." -K, Men in Black Well, here we go: Everybody's Favorite Supervisor, Jake McGoldrick is proposing some sort of ballot measure to give the Board of Supervisors,...
Calling BS on Fare Increases and Fare Shenanigans in San Francisco
Rather than react to the trial balloon on fare hikes MUNI floated today, I decided to take a look back over the past year at all the rhetoric floated by Our Leaders on MUNI fares. Give credit to MUNI and...
What Would You Do With a Million MUNI Dollars, Mr. Mayor?
Some days you don't have to do much to write a little blog about MUNI...it just sort of writes itself. KCBS had a report about the Mayor's eagerness to spend MUNI dollars on expensive staffers for his office, to the...
SF Chronicle Reports on Recent MUNI Accidents...And A Minor Clarification...
This morning's Chronicle has a report on recent events and MUNI safety that's worth checking out. I think that as we go forward, the good citizens of San Francisco are going to have to keep pestering their elected officials and...
Does MUNI Boss Nate Ford Deserve A Raise? Mayor Newsom Says "Yes" - What Do YOU Think?
Sometimes writing this little blog is like shooting fish in a barrel, especially when you open a newspaper and read this little news item about MUNI Boss Nate Ford's raise. The story reveals so much more than just the facts...
Reader News Alert: Accident at 9th and Irving Between N-Judah and a Honda?
Reader Patrick sent me an email about an hour ago indicating that there's been a collision between a Honda car and an N-Train at 9th and Irving. As I'm at work I can't just run down the street and check...
Well, A Week Later It Looks Like Measure "A" Did Pass After All....Now What?
Sorry I've been away for so long...but the ongoing distraction of finding a non-crackhouse apartment in the unusually bad, dot-commish like rental market these days is becoming such a distraction I don't really have the time to write genius posts...
Last Call for Folks to Help Out Measure "A" , If You're So Inclined....UPDATED
If you're one of those folks who thinks a good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow, there are some chances for you to get involved with volunteer efforts to help pass Measure A. Those of you who...
There's Some Measure A Thing Going On, Or Something....Meanwhile I'm Taking A Few Days Off So Answer Our Question Of The Day
Rather than try and keep up with work, other duties, the much needed upgrades behind the scenes and post half-baked blog posts, I'm going to take a few days off to just work on some things for the big "upgrade"...
Reader Mail: More CC's of Letters to Mayor Newsom, Board of Supervisors...
UPDATE: MUNI is inventing new ways to blow it - now the N line is experiencing it's own, separate-from-this-morning's-blowout problems and apparently we can expect significant delays today. Sigh... UPDATE 2: According to the Chron the N was allegedly back...
Reader Mail: When Statistics and Life Collide On the N Judah Line
The other day I got the following CC'd email, orginally sent to Mayor Newsom, regarding what sounds like a terrible ride on the N-Judah from Reader Stephen: Dear Mayor Newsom, I'm writing to draw your attention to the atrocious inability...
How You Can Help Out The MUNI Reform Measure This Fall!
The kind folks at SPUR sent out an email recently letting people know how they can help out the MUNI charter amendment on the ballot this fall. Since the fall election is easily one of the deadest in recent history,...
When A Few Taxi Cabbies Get Crabby, Will MUNI Reform Suffer?
Ah, the end of August. The weather's nice and sunny, my birthday's coming up in a few days (one I share with such luminaries as "Weezy" from the Jeffersons, John McCain, and Elliot Gould), and....and...well that's about it. Oh, and...
MUNI Reform Coming to Fall Ballot, Sans Big Opposition
Well, this has been an interesting week. I'd refrained from commenting on the early reports about the ongoing shuffle behind the scenes as pro-parking and pro-MUNI reform folks were going back and forth, since I knew that commenting too early...
Doin' Jury Duty, Thinkin' MUNI: Big Vote Tuesday, July 31st....
This week I've found myself trapped in the labrintyh known as the Hall of Justice for voir dire jury duty. And unlike the one in SuperFriends, there's no TroublAlert computer (but there is the ongoing nuttiness involving Sup. Ed Jew)....
Everyone Sings Kumbaya At City Hall When It Comes to MUNI
Who says City Hall's denizens can't hold hands and sing Kumbaya in peace and harmony? To read today's Chronicle and today's Examiner, that seems to be the case as negotiators found enough cookies to give to labor unions (who'd previously...
MUNI Reform Measure In Danger - Unions, Politicos, Readers: What Are Your Solutions to MUNI's Woes?
Reading the morning Chronicle today, it looks like the much talked about MUNI reform charter amendment proposed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin may get talked to death behind closed doors today. Or not. These days it's hard to tell what's going...
Let's Pay People More Money to Do What They're Supposed To Anyway!
Reading the paper this morning, articles in the Chronicle and the Examiner told of a simply fascinating idea - paying MUNI employees "bonus" money for simply coming to work - like they're already supposed to. (Why can't any of us...
We're Number 1! We're Number 2! Well Sort Of!
If you haven't already seen the latest statistics gathered by MUNI it's worth checking out. There's some interesting information in there, but there's also a lot of work produced by the No Duh Institute on the Obvious as well. For...
The Children of the Corn Invade 9th and Irving
One of the most obvious examples of Why There Is A God is the creation of the Do Not Call List, helping to put an end to countless calls at dinnertime offering things you don't need or want. At last,...
Another "No Duh" Moment With Muni: A $5 Cable Care Fare May Be Too Much for Visitors After All
Once again, the half-assed budgeting and planning by MUNI reared its head in the "No Duh" section of the San Francisco Chronicle today when it was revealed t that raising the cable car fare 67% to $5 may be pushing...
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