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Update (Wednesday, 11:36 p.m.):The Examiner speculates that the DC Airport Authority is likely to look past SFMTA chief Nat Ford for its next executive director.

Original post (Wednesday morning):City Insider/Chronicle reporter Rachel Gordon has the story.

Muni chief Nathaniel Ford, the front-runner for the job to run the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, was not offered the position after two-hours of closed-door deliberations this morning.

The authority’s 13-member regional governing board, which convened at 8 a.m. EST, opted to put off the decision.

The delay signals that the board is still deeply divided over whether to hire Ford.

Read the rest of the story at City Insider.

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Wow. A tsunami warning in San Francisco, really? I woke up to thoughts of how to evacuate my apartment in under three minutes (not looking so good right now).

Hey, we have a Facebook page where you can keep up with all the happenings on Muni Diaries. Won’t you like us on Facebook?

In Muni news this week:

• Muni reroutes due to tsunami warning (our news roundup)
• Muni operators calling for expansion of safety regulation to include buses (SF Examiner)
• Muni operators sue the city, transportation chief (City Insider)
• Supervisor Scott Wiener calls on Muni to get tough on workers (SF Examiner)
• Eleven citizens first to be empowered with oversight of BART Police (BART.gov)
• Church and Duboce Project to Revamp Major Transit and Bike Corridor (Streetsblog SF)
• Construction Schedule Mar. 7 – Mar. 25 (Central Subway Blog)
• BART gets better budget news (SFGate)
• Large Sculpture Approved For New Transbay Transit Center (SFAppeal)
• Muni “M” Pass on Clipper Card ONLY Starting April 1, 2011 (Akit’s Complaint Department)

Enjoy these photos and have a safe weekend!

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Update (3:22 p.m.): SF Weekly says that SFMTA promises a fail-free evening commute today. We’ll just see about that, won’t we?

Update (2:26 p.m.): SF Appeal reports that, according to SFMTA, this morning’s mess was the result of damaged cables. The problem was fixed at 10 a.m. this morning, according to SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose. Read the rest of the story at SF Appeal.

Original post:The exact cause of this morning’s delays at the Embarcadero Station is still unclear, and it looks like we won’t find out for another few hours. The delays started early this morning, affecting inbound and outbound trains that feed under Market Street.

KRON 4 reports:

Muni spokesman Paul Rose says once the morning commute is over, repair crews will go to the Embarcadero Station and assess what’s going wrong. Rose wouldn’t estimate the length of the delays but says bus bridges are also running along Market Street to cope with the extra number of passengers.

SFMTA says that a mechanical issue might be causing the problem. Deja vu much? SF Appeal reports:

According to SF MTA spokesperson Paul Rose, “we’re still moving, we’re just going slowly” at the Embarcadero station, where he says mechanical issues are, yet again, delaying service.

Riders are understandably frustrated, especially loudly on Twitter, notes the SF Examiner. You can, of course, request a late note from the station agent like Kath did this morning. Genius, Kath!

We’ll keep you updated here on the status of the delay.