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We’ll tell you how.
Since May of 2006, the MTA has been involved in a comprehensive process known as the Transit Effectiveness Project, or TEP. No one has more acronyms than government, most of them nobody can remember. But this one is going to effect your lives in so many ways, is worth paying attention to.
The MTA website puts it best: "The Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP) is an 18-month effort to comprehensively evaluate the existing Muni transit system and recommend ways to attract more riders and make service more effective and economical. It will look at all aspects of our existing system, from service policies to operations to management, assess how we compare with other major transit systems, and forecast where we see future demand."
MUNI is one of the most commented upon city services on ActLocallySF.org. The comments we get, the suggestions that are offered and the opinions rendered are all collected and given to Mayor Newsom. We’ve gotten thousands.
But this is not the only way to express yourself. The MTA has a website on how to improve MUNI and they’re looking for your direct feedback. So take a click-stroll over to the website: http://www.sftep.com/ and let the folks over at MUNI know what you think.
It is short, just ten questions, and it needs your input to make it work.
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May 1st, 2007 at 9:47 am
MUNI sucks. Especially the N-Judah, which no longer seems to even serve the Outer Sunset. There, I feel better already.
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
I realize that no one is capable of rescuing MUNI without dismantling the byzantine union contracts that have kept every Mayor in office beyond his usefullness to the city he or she serves. Nat Ford seems like a good man with impressive credentials, but MUNI is operating less frequently on fewer routes with a bigger budget than ever before and the operators give the impression that they’re independent contractors and pick and choose how they’ll operate the vehicle they’re operating when they choose to show up for work. MUNI is a bigger mess than when Willie Brown almost got trounced by Tom Ammiano and unless Mayor Newsom can achieve something, he’s going to have this as another in a long list of failures of his administration. FIX MUNI!!!!!
June 18th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Many MUNI drivers go WAY to fast, people have died from them hitting someone and not watching.
it is a program that needs total revamping altogether. Mayor Gavin,you can do it with the help and support of others. this is what needs attention. Hillary Theimer
July 26th, 2007 at 10:49 am
MUNI must get its act together. As its budget gets bigger so does its mess. Other cities are older and much more crowded than San Francisco, ie. Amsterdam, but the transit system is much better and it has a bus schedule!
Here are some of my observations of riding MUNI daily:
1) the 38 Geary needs fewer stops, 3-6 blocks apart not 1/2 - 1 block, and combine the following stops at VanNess and Franklin, Webster and Fillmore, 12th Ave. and Park Presidio. Many times people forgo an empty 38 regular and get onto a jam packed 38 limited. The 38BX should have the same stops as the 38L so that people do not use it as a shuttle bus in the avenues.
2) the 5 Fulton stops have the same problem right in front of City Hall! it stops at Van Ness and then 1/2 block away at Polk St. Could it stop in the middle of the street as the 30 Stockton and 45 buses do in Chinatown?
3) Muni could save a boat load of money by eliminating the driver in the second streetcar. Most of the time, when the streetcars are inside the tunnel, the drivers are reading the newspaper, eating, and napping.
4) It should allow loading from the back doors for people with Muni fast passes and valid transfers. The fare inspectors should ride the buses to check them. It works fine in European cites, ie. Berlin and Zurich.
5) Muni drivers need to be told not to bunch up at a bus stop meant for one bus. They need to wait back at the light instead of stopping half way down the block if there is already a bus stopped at the stop.
6) As with all major cities, S.F. needs an underground system to speed up cross town service since the roads are crowded with cars and people. Major transit corridors like Geary and VanNess need to be undergrounded to connect to BART at Market. The BRT is just a waste of money!
7) The Metro stations should have more Exit only turntiles so that people are not bunched up during the commute hours.
It is these little things MUNI can do to spend up
the loading and unloading of its trains and buses and speeind up the buses, ie, moving the bus stops to the other side of the traffic lights so that a fully loaded up bus don’t have to wait for a red light to turn green. Has someone at MUNI thought of that one?
Meanwhile, I should continue to drive my SUV to shop outside of the City since the City is making it tough for me to drive downtown to shop.
Whew, I feel better already!