+$4M: More Money for Muni
Fellow Muni blogger Greg Dewar blogs the Chronicle‘s report of increased fare collection on buses and trains in San Francisco. This seems like good news to us!
Category: News
CultureBus FAIL
Not that we like to take credit for foreseeing transit-related mishaps. And, you know, not like we enjoy saying we told you so.
But, god dammit, we told you so. How right were we?
The End*, and the Beginning
Muni Diaries would like to congratulate Barack Obama on becoming the 44th president of the United States.
Hip hip, hooray!
* As for George W. Bush, well, we wish him good luck. We think he might actually need it.
PS: Tell us where you’re celebrating tonight!
Spiffiness for a Certain F-Car, Mate
As SFist’s Mattymatt points out, F car 496 unveiled a refurbished look Friday. Transit lovers everywhere will surely rejoice, right?
Driver Cellphone Ban
On my way to class Tuesday night on the 43 outbound, my Muni driver inexplicably hopped off the bus at the Laguna Honda stop. At first I thought the bus had a mechanical problem, but the driver was acting a bit erratically — stepping on and off the fully powered bus while talking on his cellphone. Each time he stepped back on, we riders cocked our heads expectantly his way, hoping for some sort of announcement about why a perfectly functional bus wasn’t approaching our destination.
After about 13 minutes of idling (I was astutely watching the scrolling clock tick away on the digital placard), the driver reclaimed his seat at the wheel and resumed our route.
Faster Munis Make Zoooooom!!!
Well, if only it were so cut-and-dried. The Examiner‘s Mike Aldax has more on the proposal for Muni to run its trains at speeds up to 50 mph in certain stretches of the underground.