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Category Archives: transit
TEP proposes good things for Muni. Is this good news?
A week ago the Chronicle reported on some promising preliminary recommendations based on findings from the Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP). These recommendations are great. In many ways they are in line with common sense: improve highly used lines using BRT, … Continue reading
Posted in happiness, politics, transit
Tagged board, brt, bus, busses, effectiveness, ford, francisco, gavin, gavin newsom, heavy, light, lrt, mayor, muni, municipal, nat, nat ford, nathaniel, newsom, project, public, rail, railroad, railway, rapid, san, san francisco, sf, supervisors, TEP, transit, transport, transportation, union, workers
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“Hacking” traffic signals in the City
Driving so many hours in the City offers a lot of time for thinking, especially thinking about driving. I put a lot of thought toward the question: How can I reach a destination most quickly? The answer is rather complicated, … Continue reading
Posted in taxi, transit
Tagged green, hacking, hacks, intersection, life, life hacking, light, red, san francisco, sf, signal, timing, traffic, traffic light, yellow
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Driving
My shift starts around midnight. I usually eat ‘breakfast’ around 1 or 2am if it’s slow. I’ll sit in line at the 18/Castro unofficial taxi stand, at the 24-Divisadero bus stop, and eat a slice of pizza for my first … Continue reading
Muni’s Nat Ford doing good things?
Wow, it looks like Nat Ford might actually know how to run a municipal transit agency. Let’s hope the Board of Supervisors gets off his back and lets him do it right. Link
How to fix Muni (for real)
On my ‘to write’ list is a manifesto of how to fix Muni. Lay out what’s wrong. Lay out what we need to do to fix it. Dave Snyder of SPUR beat me to the punch. I met Dave last … Continue reading
Mayor spends thousands of dollars to learn transit user fees are necessary.
Dear Mayor Newsom You didn’t have to spend City taxpayer money on private consultants. Anyone could have told you: Just like any other shared and limited public resource, public transit needs user fees. Offering ‘free’ Muni is a destructive proposal. … Continue reading
Update: Supes badger over taxi gate fee increase
The Examiner has an update on the saga of supervisor Alioto-Pier’s original proposal to considerably increase gate fees. (A gate fee is the rental price of a taxicab charged to cab drivers.) A much more reasonable $5 increase (compared to … Continue reading
Posted in politics, taxi, transit
Tagged addition, alioto-pier, amendment, board, board of supervisors, cab, change, charge, fee, gate, gate fee, increase, legislation, local, modification, price, proposal, regulation, rental, san francisco, sf, supervisors, taxi, taxicab
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Bike coalition makes good signage.
I like good signage. Good signage is clear in communicating a simple point or set of points. Good signage is a rare find. I was surprised to see these well-designed signs posted at the cab garage when I went into … Continue reading
Will another gruesome Muni death stir Nat Ford to action?
The Examiner and the Chronicle both report on a disturbing incident which occurred Wednesday in the Sunset District. A man attempted to board the N-Judah around 9pm when the doors evidently closed on him. The train proceeded to drag him … Continue reading
Posted in politics, transit
Tagged accident, bus, death, lrv, metro, muni, muni metro, municipal, pedestrian, pedestrian accident, railway, san francisco, sf
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Sign of Muni progress: rear boarding (beta)
Kudos to Muni for trying to address one of the two main causes of Muni’s notoriously low system-wide average speed: DWELL. (Dwell is a geek transit term for the time for loading and unloading of passengers.) The other cause? Busses … Continue reading
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Tagged average speed, boarding, bus, busses, dwell, enforcement, muni, municipal, payment, pop, proof, proof of payment, railway, rear, rear boarding, san francisco, sf, speed
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