Muni Diaries

Here are results of the three transportation-related measures on yesterday’s San Francisco ballot, via the Department of Elections (PDF):

Prop A: San Francisco Transportation and Road Improvement Bond
Yes 110,153 71.23%
No 44,488 28.77%

Prop B: Adjusting Transportation Funding for Population Growth
Yes 93,289 61.14%
No 59,305 38.86%

Prop L: Policy Regarding Transportation Priorities
Yes 57,168 37.67%
No 94,572 62.33%

And up above: A dog in a backpack on Muni. Previously: Cat in a backpack on Muni.

h/t Muni rider M Rioux

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Photo by Takashi Hososhima

Heading to the polls today? We should hope so! There are three transit-related measures on today’s ballot. How did you vote on these?

Prop A: San Francisco Transportation and Road Improvement Bond. ballot text
StreetsblogSF on A: “A promising step toward building out the safe, reliable networks for transit, walking, and biking that San Franciscans need.”

San Francisco Chronicle on A: “If you ride Muni — a category that includes just about everyone — then the idea of better service should interest you. This measure would spend $500 million to dent a $10 billion-plus backlog of improvements. The bond measure has money for street repaving, repair yard upgrades, and more transit and bicycle lanes.”
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There’s a new Muni map, you guys. StreetsblogSF has the story:

The complex web of San Francisco’s 82 municipal transit lines has been made more legible through a sleek new layout that will grace Muni shelters early next year. As we wrote in June, the map was developed over ten years by two volunteer cartographers, David Wiggins and Jay Primus, who also happens to be the former manager of SFPark.

The map “helps visualize the service hierarchy,” making it clear “where there’s more service, and where there’s less service,” as Muni’s operations planning and scheduling manager, Julie Kirschbaum, put it in June.

Read more over at StreetsblogSF. Still looks pretty confusing, but how else are you gonna manage such a mess?

Let us know what you think of the new map in the comments below.

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