Transit News: Muni fares to events, bus stop wanker, bikes on BART, bummer Muni stats

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  • Supervisor Scott Wiener Wants Sports and Music Fans to Pay More to Ride Muni (SF Weekly)
  • Central Subway: Federal Overseer Laments “Serious Deficiency” in Time, Money Contingencies (SF Weekly)
  • Man Arrested For Masturbating At Muni Stop (SF Appeal)
  • BART Board Votes To Relax Rush Hour Bike Ban For Five Month Trial Period (SF Appeal)
  • Muni Presents Hideous Numbers at Transit Hearing (SF Weekly)

Attack at Grove/Van Ness Muni Stop

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Muni rider Erin and her friend told us that they were attacked last Friday at the Grove and Van Ness Muni stop. She sent us her account of the harrowing experience.

Last Friday at 12:30 a.m., my friend and I were walking back from a concert on Fell street up Van Ness. When we crossed to walk in front of City Hall, a group of guys attacked us at the Muni stop on Grove and Van Ness. I think it’s the 47/49 stop right behind City Hall. It was about five or six boys, all looked like teenagers or young adults. It seemed like they had it planned, and they just started beating the crap out of my friend as I tried to call for help. Read more

What if BART ran Muni?

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Photo by Andrionni Ribo

Last week, a thought occurred to us: What if the agency that runs BART took its turn running Muni? It’s not necessarily a new question, but it’s a fun thought experiment nonetheless.

Would BART make Muni better? Worse? The same? Would running San Francisco’s buses, metro trains, streetcars, and cable cars actually make BART worse?

Here’s the mixed bag of what some of you had to say (responding to the question over at @munidiaries):

  • “all for it. Especially if they bring the BART robot voice to MUNI bus announcements.” @jcsnotes
  • “what would be better is if we had a comprehensive Bay Area wide transit system instead of a dozen transit fiefdoms” @biohzrd
  • “anything would be better than Muni running muni.” @Jynx69637
  • “cons: very noisy underground & wouldnt run 24/7. Pros: much much faster” @Medium_Matt
  • “it’d be harder to get pee off the cushioned seats” @CrusaderMaximus
  • “if muni could be a closed system with its own right of ways… This is like comparing apples to a shitstorm.” @cripsahoy
  • “you would have shorter buses during commute hours for no apparent reason” @bellacantare
  • “likely the better of two evils. I’m convinced mta is ran by a chimp who’s addicted to meth.” @richardsondh

What do you think? What if BART ran Muni?

Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Holiday Muni service, Carnaval, Giants games

Memorial Holiday Muni Service and Parking Enforcement
On Monday, Memorial Day holiday, Muni service will operate on Sunday schedule.

Carnaval Parade
On Sunday the Carnaval Parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. The staging area for the parade will be on Bryant Street between 18th and Cesar Chavez streets. Assembly for the parade will begin at 5 a.m. and the parade will finish by 4 p.m.

The following Muni routes will be affected:
· 12 Folsom
· 14 Mission
· 14L Mission Limited
· 27 Bryant
· 33 Stanyan
· 48 Quintara-24th Street
· 49 Van Ness/Mission
· 67 Bernal Heights

Athletic Association Event
On Saturday, the San Francisco Gaelic Athletic Association event will take place at the San Francisco Gaelic Fields on Treasure Island.

Avenue “H” between 11th and 13th streets will be closed from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m.

The 108 Treasure Island Muni route will be affected during the closure.

Baseball Game Traffic Reroutes
The San Francisco Giants will play five home games at AT&T Park from Friday through Sunday and next Wednesday and Thursday:

Three home games against Colorado Rockies:
· 7:15 p.m., Friday
· 1:05 p.m., Saturday
· 1:05 p.m., Sunday

Two home games against Oakland Athletics:
· 7:15 p.m., Wednesday
· 12:45 p.m., Thursday

The SFMTA advises motorists of the increased congestion in San Francisco and advises commuters to use transit and avoid using the Bay Bridge on these dates.

As a reminder to fans, in order to reduce congestion on city streets after all events at AT&T Park, the SFMTA will close the northbound portion of the 4th Street (Peter R. Maloney) Bridge to all traffic except streetcars, buses, taxis and bicycles during the post-game period. Giants fans parked south of Mission Creek Channel who are heading north of the channel are encouraged to exit to the south along 3rd or 4th streets in order to avoid congestion on King and 3rd streets after AT&T Park events. A map showing alternate post-game routes from AT&T parking lots is available on the Giants’ website.

For details about transit service to AT&T Park, including connections from Bay Area transit systems to Muni can be found at www.sfmta.com. Regional transit information for BART, Caltrain and the ferries as well as traffic is available at www.511.org.

REMINDER: Overnight Closure for Construction
Overnight closure of northbound Highway 1 (Park Presidio Boulevard/Veterans Boulevard) at Lake Street for the Presidio Parkway construction has been taken place each night. This night closure is expected to last for three weeks with the following hours:

Mondays through Thursdays From midnight to 4 a.m.
Fridays through Saturdays From 1 to 4 a.m.

During the closure, Muni routes 28 19th Avenue and 91 Owl will be affected.

For more information, please visit www.presidioparkway.org.

Israel “apartheid” state ads on Muni

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Supervisor Scott Wiener says SFMTA should donate money is it receiving for the latest controversial Muni ads to the Human Rights Commission. The ads say, “End Apartheid Now!” and “Stop U.S. Aid to Israel.”

According to City Insider, Wiener is asking SFMTA to donate the money to mirror its reaction to a series of ads that ran in 2012 calling all Muslims “savages.” After heavy protesting, the agency decided to give revenue it generated from the ads to the HRC to study the effect of discrimination against Muslims. Rather than remove the ads, SFMTA placed head-scratcher ads of its own next to the controversial ones that read:

SFMTA policy prohibits discrimination based on national origin, religion, and other characteristics and condemns statements that describe any group as “savages.”

Read the SFGate blog for more.

What do you think? Should SFMTA donate its revenue from these latest controversial ads?

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