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An Open Challenge to the MTA Board and Muni Management-Actually Ride Muni Every Day For A Month
Reading today's Chronicle on the hassles created by Nathaniel Ford and the MTA's major cuts this morning read like a "No Duh University" report, whether you're a Loyal Reader of this blog, or any blog about Muni, or about San...
Follow Up: Taking Another Look at that Muni Crime Hearing...With Some Surprises...
So today was the Big Day for that Board of Supervisors hearing on Muni Crime. Predictably, mainstream outlets focused primarily on the individual incidents people spoke to in public comment, while Streetsblog put more of a focus on what the...
Let's All Have a Freak Out - Why the Debate on Parking Meters and The "News" About Fare Stealing Jerks Aren't Totally Related
Oh here we go. I'm getting caught up with blogging today because I was busy all weekend (including a detour to LitQuake where I attended the super-entertaining panel hosted by SFist and SF Appeal) and the next two weeks are...
A Quick Follow Up to Yesterday's Delays AKA Why Does Kavai Muao-Harris Hate Us So Much?
Although I managed to get a short post out before I headed off to a seminar I was running for the day job, I couldn't do any follow up, as the many Twitter DMs, emails and reactions piled up to...
The Cost of Tragedy And Bad Planning: $2 Million Payout to MUNI Accident Victim...
Several Loyal Readers emailed me this story in today's Chronicle, detailing the settlement between a victim of a horrible accident on the N Judah line and the city. $2 million dollars will be paid to the victim, which to me...
You've Gotta Be Kidding Me: Another Car Was In The Tunnel Today...
This morning, whilst working at my day job, I saw this notice pop up on the MUNI TroubleAlert, indicating (as always) after the fact that "some delay" had been cleared between Castro and West Portal. Then I read this report,...
Friday Foto Fun: Raiders of the Lost Ark Scene at City Hall
I've probably seen the original Raiders of the Lost Ark millions of times, and I don't mean that in a metaphorical way. From the original release in theaters, to cable, to DVD, videotapes, and whatnot, if this movie is...
Oh My God, It's Finally Here: The Transit Effectiveness Project Report....
For the better part of a year, news of the ongoing Transit Effectiveness Project has been kicked around as meetings, studies and whatnot have been devoted to try and figure out where and what MUNI needs to change in order...
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...
C.W. Obvious Comes to the Sunset, Blogging Mayhem Ensues - The NJC Perspective
Over the weekend, Chronicle readers were treated to this column by CW Obvious on a really horrible stabbing that happened in the Outer Sunset. Thank God the poor woman (an exchange student from Germany) survived and isn't dead, but I...
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...
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...
And Now, A Study on Muni by the Institute of No Duh
Betcha didn't know that Muni's been running kinda slow lately, did ya? Well just in case you really didn't know, a new study was commissioned that found MUNI has been slowing down 1% a year, for the last 20 years!...
When A Street Fair is an Island of Calm
Saturday I had all sorts of errands to run and took the N-Judah to the bank past 19th Avenue. In my rush to get over there I realized in a "no duh" moment that there was a reason the traffic...
Muni Riders Don't Pay? Who Told?
So it seems in today's Examiner, (as well as today's SFist )we have this article, claiming that in some spot surveys 50% of the people on Muni ain't payin the fare. All I can say is "Who told?" What's funny...
Free Theater On the Muni - Brought to You By The Letters "F" and "U"
Recently, I have had the chance to observe San Francisco Muni's new contribution to culture - the Free Theater On Wheels. All I had to do was buy a bus pass and take a ride, and suddenly drama, comedy, and...
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