SFCTA: Geary BRT Needs Center Bus Lanes
SFist had an excellent blog post yesterday about the SFCTA’s study of the proposed Geary Bus Rapid Transit project. In brief, the project team agrees with us that the dedicated bus lanes should run down the center of the street, in dedicated right of way, as most of SF’s light rail lines do (e.g. T-Third). The SFCTA also backed our call for a “rail ready” project that can be easily upgraded to light rail in the future, as funds become available.
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!
ELECTRIC!!! Geary Blvd is a major arterial and corridor leading into the Richmond District of San Francisco! Until 1958 it had clean effecient and environmentally friendly ELECTRIC trams (the “A” “B” “C” and “D” lines), in fact to what I understand it was the first electric tram line of United Railroads, the precursor to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco hence (MUNI).nnUnder the then influence of General Motors and the National City Lines Scandal prevalent during the time between the 1920’s and the early 60’s (and in some cases right up into the very early 1970’s), Geary Boulevard was de-electrified with wires and track torn down and up respectively.nnSince it has never seen any sort of electrification whatsoever! I am vehemently OPPOSED to this so-called Transit Bus Corridor Project for one major reason — it’s DIESEL! It is not even ELECTRIFIED!nnWe were promised light rail out here on Geary Blvd with ELECTRIC trams! I am so blighted and disappointed that this indoctrination seems to be coming right out of the old NCL (National City Lines) “textbooks” or manuals!nnDiesel is NOT more effecient than electricity (bio-diesel inclusive), never has and never will! This push for a glorified DIESEL busway on Geary is self-defeating and very unenvironmental!nnLet’s resolve to keep the promises to the residents and businesses to the Richmond District by keeping to the promises of clean quiet efficient ELECTRIC light rail! (Even if going the bus route, then at least consider articulated TROLLEY busses)!nnTrue that the INITIAL expense is more than that quick unenvironmental “alternative” hence more diesel pollution both noise and environmental wise. But in the LONG TERM electrification pays more than TRIPLE the costs than running fossil fuel transport. This has been proven world wide for over a century! Electrification is nothing new, it began during the last part of the ninteenth century and with todays technology it genuinely has proven itself both in terms of enviroment and COSTS!nnPLEASE quit this rhetoric nonsense of some diesel busway as that is deceptive and misleading to the general public at large! Let’s indeed honour and respect the promises that have been made. With electrification of the non-corridor routes such as the #1, 5, and 31, there is no excuse as not to electrify what IS the major and most important corridor (other than Mission St) of San Francisco — ELECTRIFY NOW!nnThanks!