Category: News

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• Muni’s Next Train Fleet: Breda Disqualified From Another Contract (Streetsblog SF)
• At Least 4 Injured When Muni Bus Suddenly Stops To Avoid Car (CBS KPIX)
• BART Unhappy With Unions’ Latest Proposal, Gov.  Brown Unhappy With Both Sides (SF Weekly)
• Teen Shot to Death As He Exited Muni (SF Weekly)
• BART riders warned of construction at Embarcadero (SFGate)
• Middle Schooler Tells Secretary Donovan “White People” and “Muni” Are the Mission’s Problems (Uptown Almanac)
• Making Way for Bus Rapid Transit on Van Ness Avenue (SPUR)
• Justin Valdez Identified as Man Shot to Death on Muni, Police Release Video of Suspect (SF Weekly)

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Gasp. Could it be true?

According to Streetsblog SF, Muni’s tests and software upgrades have been done, and three-car Muni Metro trains could come to the system’s underground stations as soon as late October/early November. You might no longer have to wonder why underground platforms are hella long, and the trains themselves are hella short.

We first learned of Muni’s plan to test three-car trains nearly two years ago. Nice to see the agency follow through.

As Streetsblog SF reports, Muni is also planning to implement “double-train loading.” That’s when, say, the K and the M pulling into a station and loading passengers at the same time. Genius!

For more, check out the post on Streetsblog SF.

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Muni is looking to reconfigure the forward- and backward-facing seats on the light rail train cars to accomodate more riders and speed up boarding, reports StreetsBlog.

According to StreetsBlog:

The SFMTA plans to run a trial starting in January by putting one reconfigured prototype car into service, which would be monitored over six months before reconfiguring other train cars.

The pilot is moving forward at the behest of Supervisors Scott Wiener and London Breed, who called a hearing held yesterday on how the agency can increase capacity on its metro system while Muni riders await a new, larger train fleet due to arrive in 2017. Read more

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A Muni audit uncovered some serious training shortage, not the least of which is the napping incident that San Francisco Chronicle’s Matier and Ross highlighted yesterday. Apparently the trainer was napping, chatting, and eating while the rookie driver navigated the roads. Scary.
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