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14L-Mission to Extend Route to Daly City BART Beginning Monday (update)

January 18, 2012 jeff One comment

Update (6:02 p.m.): We just heard from SFMTA, who says the official announcement contained an error. 14L service to Daly City BART begins Monday, not Saturday. Muni will run the buses to Daly City in the mornings and evenings only.

Original post: ~~Just in time to ferry people to the next Muni Diaries Live,~~ Muni has announced that, beginning this ~~Saturday~~Monday, the 14L-Mission Limited will begin serving the Daly City BART station.

SF Appeal has the story.

Category: News Tags: 14L-Mission Limited

N-Judah, the Most Accident-Prone Muni Line?

January 17, 2012 eugenia 2 comments

Photo by JB

The N-Judah has just been found to be the most accident-prone Muni line, according the San Francisco Examiner.

The line, which carries passengers from Ocean Beach to the Caltrain station on Fourth and King streets, was involved in 84 collisions between 2008 and 2011, making it far more accident-prone than the five other Muni train lines.

The Examiner collected data from 2008 to 2011. But there may be a reason that the N-Judah has the most number of accidents, according to the SFMTA. From the Examiner:

The N-Judah carries more people and requires more service than any other Muni line, which is one reason it has so many accidents, said spokesman Paul Rose of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. He said the agency is seeking ways to make the line safer, and he noted that accidents have dropped for the past three years.

Read the rest of the San Francisco Examiner story.

Category: News Tags: N-Judah

Muni News: Possible Caltrain fare hike, Powell Station work

January 17, 2012 jeff Leave a comment

Photo by Christina B Castro

Stockton Bus Riders Take a Back Seat to Central Subway Construction (Streetsblog SF)
Cash fares could be going up for Caltrain passengers (SF Examiner)
Bevan Dufty in talks with Mayor Ed Lee about potential city job (SF Examiner)
Muni making plans on how to remove troublesome bus shelters (SF Examiner)
Powell Street Station modernization continues through Sept. 2012 (BART.gov)
BART to run limited all-night service during Bay Bridge westbound closure (BART.gov)

Category: News

Muni Diaries Live! This Saturday!

January 16, 2012 eugenia Leave a comment

Illustration by Jay Sacher

Muni Diaries Live is back this Saturday! Invite all your BFFs with the official Facebook RSVP and hear stories from some pretty amazing people. Check ’em out.

Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries and editor of The Rumpus.
Sal Castaneda, longtime KTVU traffic reporter and radio host.
Glynn Washington, executive producer of NPR’s Snap Judgment.
Caitlin Gill, comedian and spoken-word artist.
Chloe Veltman, host and producer of public radio’s VoiceBox.
Pinched Nerve. San Francisco musician who will be performing his song, “Back Door, Step Down!”
Jan Richman, author of Thrill-Bent, a new novel about roller coasters and Tourette’s syndrome.

And you can win goodies from Timbuk2, Tacolicious, and SFLocal.net.

~~Advanced tickets are on sale now, so grab one quick before they’re gone.~~ We can’t wait to see you!

Category: Event News, Muni Diaries Live, News Tags: announcement, muni-diaries-live

Car No. 1 being tested on the L-Taraval line

January 13, 2012 jeff Leave a comment

Happy Friday the 13th! Muni rider Geoff sends us this report:

Check out these flickr photos of an F line car i’ve never seen, being tested on the L line.

That so happens to be Muni’s Car No. 1, which ~~the good folks at Market Street Railway have~~Brookville Equipment Company of Pennsylvania has been restoring since 2009. Rick L. at MSR says that Muni is testing the car, and that they hope to have it in service sometime this year for Muni’s centennial celebration. Car No. 1 “was just out stretching its legs,” Rick said. He added, “I don’t know when it will go into service. Muni wants to introduce it to the public as part of its centennial year (which started last December 28).”

And in related news, another new-to-Muni PCCs hit the streets recently. Car No. 1080 is workin’ the F-Market lines as of Wednesday. Car No. 1071 started spinning its wheels in late December. @metsfaninCA tweeted us this photo of both streetcars in action yesterday evening:

Category: News

BART Plans to Order New Cars in May

January 12, 2012 eugenia 3 comments

Byebye, gross cloth seats and BART cars that smell like…you name it.

Last summer we told you about the proposed new BART cars and seats. Today SFGate reports that BART plans to order the first batch of these cars in May.

BART plans to buy a slick new ride – 260 new rail cars – for about $1 billion in May. The cars will sport a sleek modern look, cleaner seats, digital information displays, even air conditioning that works on hot days. And if transit officials are pleased, and can come up with another $2 billion or so, they’ll buy another 515 cars.

Don’t get too excited, though. After BART orders the new cars and the contract is awarded, the first of the test batch of new cars may arrive at the beginning of 2015.

Read the rest of the report.

Category: BART, News

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