MTA finally announces service changes
The MTA has at last announced details of service changes to take effect December 5. Some of these are cuts due to the recent budget problems, but there are also many changes that are the result of the multi-year Transit Effectiveness Project, including added limited service on Potrero/San Bruno (new 9L), Mission (14L and 14X), Geary (38L), Haight/Noriega (71L), and the long awaited extension of the 5 downtown at all hours. However, several lines will be cut entirely: 4-Sutter, 7-Haight, 20-Columbus, 26-Valencia, 53-Southern Heights, and Muni’s shortest line, 89-Laguna Honda.
Take a look at the new service plan and give us your thoughts.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Please don’t discontinue the 26! I take it every day at least three times a day! I don’t want to have to use the 14 or 49 Mission Busses. Mission Street is slow, dirty, chaotic and dangerous.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
If they are making reductions based on use it makes sense. I see mostly empty buses all the time between commute hours or after. Bigger buses during the commute and smaller buses or vans at other times should be considered.
I recall when the jitneys on Mission provided good service. Maybe it is time to bring back private operators to compete with Muni. Nothing else seems to have made Muni appreciably better.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Will be interesting to see what truly happens–anyone care to bet on how many of the “additional service runs” never materialize account no operator? It was always a fiction that TEP would magicly erase the 20+ % daily absenteeism.