Muni News: Mayor says ‘no,’ Muni bleeds more cash, traffic disruptions

  • SFPD Cracks Down On Counterfeit Muni Transfers, Arrests Two (SF Appeal)
  • One job Mayor Ed Lee doesn’t want: Muni boss (SF Gate)
  • Muni agrees to $5.4M settlement with bike rider (Oakland Tribune)
  • BART board delays vote on late-night service trial (SFGate)
  • [Hella] Weekend Traffic And Transit Disruptions: Critical Mass, Triathalon, Pride Events, Lots More (SF Appeal)
  • Today’s Meltdown? Muni Malfuntion Snarls Trains in Tunnel (SF Weekly)
  • Muni Says They’ll Crack Down On Drivers Who Leave You Hanging (SF Appeal)

Open Thread: Can’t Keep Up with the Fail

MUNI FAIL

Seriously, I can’t keep up:

Talk about these fails or anything else you feel like in this open thread.

Did you see this Muni incident this afternoon?

Reader Karl snapped this pic from his apartment today around 2:30 p.m. He says:

“Ellis was completely blocked the entire time. Looks like both cars were totaled…saw someone being carried from the bus on a stretcher. The lady in the black car was sitting in the driver side until paramedics arrived, but she didn’t appear to be too badly hurt…I didn’t see much outside of the aftermath.”

Did you see this incident? It looks like a 49, and Karl says it took more than an hour to clean up the scene. Send us more info if you’ve got it, and let us know here or @munidiaries on Twitter if things are wonky on Van Ness.

It is certainly not a good day for Muni vs. Other Object, so we’re hoping everyone involved is OK.

Tweet Your Ride to the Giants game, Get a Beer Holster

Muni vantage point
Photo by Keoki Seu

Tweet us your Muni/BART/Caltrain ride to tomorrow’s Giants Tweetup game, and you can win a handsome leather beer holster! Imagine yourself at the game toting your $6 Bud Lite in a custom leather beer holster by Brew Holster Cult, leaving your hands free to catch a foul ball or flip off any Indians fans who cross your path. All you have to do is tweet us something amusing about your Muni/BART/Caltrain ride to the game and we’ll choose a random lucky winner.

Include an #sfgiants hashtag, and @munidiaries, @bartdiaries, or @caltraindiaries at the end of your tweet to make sure we put your name in the hat, and follow us on Twitter to find out the winner.

Again, to recap:

I mean, seriously, all you gotta do is tweet at us about your ride and you get this:

If you want a more children-friendly prize, we also have an adorable Muni Diaries baby onesie and a gift bag of Chronicle Books to give away to two more winners who tweet their Giants ride to us.

Fine print: anyone who tweets their Giants ride at @munidiaries, @bartdiaries, and @caltraindiaries is eligible. We won’t be able to retweet all of you because we’ll be too busy woo-hooing our beloved World Series champions at the game, but rest assured that your name will be in the hat for the three prizes. We’ll announce the winner here and on Twitter on Saturday.

So keep your eyes peeled and ears open for great fan photos, overheard shenanigans, and other happenings on your ride to AT&T Park, and share what you see.

Write a job description for the next Nat Ford

SFMTA Chief Nat Ford
Photo by Bryan

Now that Muni’s No. 2 in charge has resigned, who do you think should replace the top two positions at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency? Carter Rohan, the deputy executive director, will leave near the end of July and is reportedly walking away with no severance package. Nat Ford, whose departure was announced last week, may be leaving with some sweet walking-away money.

So, if you had to write a job description for the next No.1 and No.2 at SFMTA, what would it be?

Commenter Susan had some ideas:

Criteria:

1- has to ride muni (and pay the $2 fee to get their fastpass loaded on clipper)

2 – has to buy a $100/year parking permit, and pay all their parking tickets

3 – has to take taxis (if they aren’t on strike) 1 time a week – probably when Muni fails – to realize how difficult it is to get a taxi.

“You too shall feel our pain,” right?

What do you think? Write us your job description for the next Nat Ford!

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