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Muni Service Cuts: Illegal?

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Is Muni’s proposed service reduction legal? That’s the topic of discussion at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, the Examiner reports.

Transit activist David Pilpel filed an appeal with the Board of Supervisors saying the cuts, which save about $29 million, violate the California Environmental Quality Act guidelines, according to KCBS.

In a nutshell, Pilpel’s appeal says that the SFMTA should have conducted a state-mandated environmental review of the proposed 10 percent service cuts. Meanwhile, the MTA says that they don’t need to because they’ve declared a fiscal emergency. We’ll keep you updated.
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Cars of 2-Car N-Judah Separate (w/more photos)

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Oh shit! @immunoqueen was on the scene. She sent us these photos. Cra-zay! From immunoqueen:

It’s kinda awesome that after weeks of reading posts about strange disasters on Muni that I get to add my own, even though it means I’m stuck on my commute home. Here are some pics I took with my iPhone; I have some other blurry shots of the tunnel where you can see the surrounding stalled trains as well if you want them. The last one is of the wall next to the tiny space in the tunnel we had to walk along to evacuate.

Update: Default Attorney, whom you may recognize from comments on Muni Diaries, and who tells us he’s started a new site Between the Lines about what people are reading on Muni, sends us this photo of the fiasco:

@immunoqueen’s photos (also, the top photo is from her):

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Hot tonight: Streets of SF Filmic Journeys at SFMOMA

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Looking for something to do tonight? SFMOMA has a screening that features the streets of San Francisco. Bonus points from us if you spot Muni lines in the “filmic journey.”

Thank you, SFist.

Details:

Streets of San Francisco: Filmic Journeys

Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA

Phyllis Wattis Theater
7:00 p.m.

Throughout the 75th anniversary exhibitions, artists take up San Francisco’s cityscapes as subject and muse. This program of experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present offers evocative records of individual experiences of street life. These psychogeographic tours look at North Beach’s Broadway strip and the window reflections of a beat poet protagonist. We examine the Mission’s storefronts for evidence of larger neighborhood shifts, from gentrification in the 1980s to the current neighborhood use of the former site of a 19th-century amusement park.

$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium).

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Elsbernd collects signatures for Muni operator resolution

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Muni riders are not amused
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Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is carrying through with his threat to take the issue of Muni operator pay (via SFGate) to the voters. Elsbernd will be out on Muni collecting signatures today on a measure to lower the floor on operator pay as a means of helping SFMTA balance its budget.

We see a lot of strong feelings about Muni operators here at Muni Diaries. Rescue Muni has come out for the amendment, while SF firefighters (via SF Appeal), for one, are against the amendment. Let us know what you think of the so-called Elsbernd amendment in the comments.

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Wanna Help Give Muni Diaries a New Look?

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We’re about to give Muni Diaries a new look, and we want to make sure you love it too! Please join the Muni Diaries testing pool and give us your two cents on the redesign survey.

Not to worry — it will be the same site, same idea (you tell us Muni stories, we share them with the world) — we just want to make the look of the site clean and lovely.

As a thank you, one lucky, randomly chosen survey respondent will receive a free drink ticket to the Make-Out Room for our spoken word event on April 23.

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