June 5th, 2007 2:19 pm
You want more people using public transportation. That means more people out of cars, less co2, etc.
I want to use public transportation. I tried it. It is not an option. Why: It is miserable and inefficient beyond endurance.
Examples:
*A trip from SFO took over an hour. An 11 minute commute. A wait in fog, no shelter for over half an hour at Balboa Park for a bus that comes every 30 minutes - occasionally, being the main problem.
*A need to access my home on Mt Davidson via either Balboa or Glen Park Station on a weekend from the Mission, a ten
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April 19th, 2007 9:05 am
There are an unacceptable number of delays on the Metro. On Metro lines from Caltrain (formerly N, now T and J), trains have to wait for as much as 10+ minutes to enter the tunnel between Folsom and Embarcadero, and then often stop multiple times in the tunnel before reaching Embarcadero station. The situation is similar for the J and N entering the tunnel at Church St. Separately, passengers waiting for a given line may wait for 25+ minutes while multiple trains for every other line pass. This is because trains on a single line (e.g., N Judah) bunch up,
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