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SFTEP: Proposed Route Changes
Today the SFMTA released documents which outline its initial proposals for how to improve reliability of Muni and decrease travel times. The proposals are a response to the data collected over the past one-and-a-half years via the Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP), Muni’s first attempt in a couple decades to study how its riders use the … Continue reading
Connected Bus Pilot Schedule Released
Courtesy of San Francisco Chronicle. In a partnership with Cisco Systems, today Muni started its pilot schedule run of the new Connected Bus. Muni’s antiquated technology is sometimes quaint, and at other times downright frustrating or embarrassing — but that technology is about to get a booster shot of the future. The new Connected Buses … Continue reading
Extensions of Muni Lines 44 and 108 Start This Saturday
Extensions of Muni lines 44 and 108 start this Saturday. February 23, Muni will start running permanently extended service on the 44-O’Shaughnessy and 108-Treasure Island bus routes. The 44 will be rerouted off of Fairfax and onto Evans, terminating at Bayview Plaza, near the Evans T-Third station. The 108 will be extended to serve the … Continue reading
MTA Board Selects Central Subway Alignment
Pro-subway badge typically worn by Chinatown project supporters. The agenda of this afternoon’s MTA Board meeting included the Central Subway project, and, unsurprisingly, the Board voted 6-0 in support of the current locally preferred alternative, Alignment 3B. (See this earlier post for more details about 3B and all the other alignments under consideration.) Alignment 3B … Continue reading
Good News for Mission Street
Good news for Mission Street. At long last, Muni’s Transit Effectiveness Project may bear some fruit on Mission Street, one of San Francisco’s most popular and crowded transit corridors. With over 65,000 daily riders, the 49 and the different versions of the 14 fight through congested city streets, dodging traffic and double-parked vehicles with nothing … Continue reading
SF Transit Dream: Bus Rapid Transit Edition
About a month ago, I posted two dream subway maps for San Francisco and the East Bay. The goal of that exercise was to correct some of the inadequacies of the current BART and Muni Metro systems, as well as to identify additional corridors that are candidates for rail expansion. As much fun as it … Continue reading
Even-Kheeled Thoughts
Despite the most recent furor about eliminating all fares on San Francisco Muni, the Chronicle recently reported the completely unsurprising result that fare-free Muni would be, to say the least, a poor idea. The faulty underlying supposition was that in light of the fare evasion problem, Muni might not be collecting much more money in … Continue reading
Trying Out Rear Boarding
Trying out rear boarding. I wish I knew how long I’ve been saying that Muni should rethink its official prohibition of rear boarding on buses, and pronto; if I had a dime each time that I’ve mentioned it over the years, why, I might even be earning as much money as Nathaniel Ford by now. … Continue reading
Pilot Program for Bus-Only Lane Cameras
The planning of bus rapid transit projects on Geary and Van Ness may make it seem as though BRT is wholly new to San Francisco, but in fact, we have been trying to incorporate at least some BRT elements for quite awhile now, most notably the so-called “bus only” lanes used on certain routes. So-called, … Continue reading
Subway Dream (San Francisco)
If you haven’t gotten to it already, please read the introductory post. Also, click here for the East Bay half of the map, which has now been posted. This first post will cover the San Francisco half of the subway dream; tomorrow’s post will address the East Bay half. In the introductory post, I stated … Continue reading
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