Other than the above-noted exception, confusion is a negligible factor on the express buses. Many express bus riders are daily downtown commuters who would become accustomed to the change quickly. Moreover, express riders constitute a tiny percentage of daily Muni ridership. As I indicated, though, if this measure is pursued, it makes most sense for the peak hour lines.

I’m also hearing some people say that there is wiggle room in the state law that regulates residential parking permits and that we might be able to charge more for RPP (like so much that the annual cost of monthly Muni passes could be included in the charge — though that is obviously an amount that we would have to get to incrementally).

And where has the mayor been on Muni? Why isn’t he out front with other mayors lobbying loudly for more state and federal money for urban transit systems>

Ideally I’d like to see the cash fare for non-express service raised. The big potential problem I see is that this penalizes people who don’t live along express routes (e.x. those near the rail routes and 19th Ave). I suspect one of the big reasons that the MTA is moving towards drastic cuts as opposed to restructuring things is to avoid meddling from the BoS… which of course means that the types of changes they’re likely to propose are going to be pretty limited.

I’d like to see more express buses (are there routes that could be converted into express routes?), and perhaps some stop skipping (or elimination) along the rail lines. Stopping at every third block in the avenues would speed things up tremendously (were it not for the geriatric contingent that howls wildly against this every time it’s proposed).

I can’t imagine many people are hopping an X to go two stops in the Avenues.

Only a handful, as it turns out.