Rider #1: How is the new Muni Metro? Today, I asked my employer for a transfer to Portland, Oregon. No kidding. I've had it. I decided it wasn't going to get better when I saw a Muni spokesman's lie about how everything with ATCS was fine. The N Judah causes so much stress in my life that it's worth giving up everything San Francisco has to offer. I have lived in this city almost all my life, but enough is enough. Rescue Muni should circulate petitions to recall Willie Brown and all eleven supervisors. Who wouldn't sign? Rider #2: [In reply to Willie Brown's email] Thank you for your reply. Your explanations and excuses are lame. For those of us who depend on MUNI to take us to work, to play, to medical appointments, and just in general to take us around, the last weeks of dismal service have only been the culmination of years of frustration, anger and comtempt towards a bloated, inefficient and third-world-rate-city transportation system. (Alas, some third world cities have better and more efficient public transit systems!) Let me pose you some questions: 1. Who is responsible for almost 2/3 of vehicles off service in one day? In my line of work, such dismal performance is ground for inmediate dismissal. Whoever is in charge of maintenance at MUNI should resign inmediately- or be fired! 2. As much as I appreciate that staff is working 15 hours a day to correct problems, in this kind of crisis, 24 hours a day are not enough. Work rules and shields given to MUNI employees should be totally scrapped until the system is running at an acceptable level. 3. The legal ramifications resulting from lawsuits the city claims is going to file against the company designing the ATC system will probably take years- how about those San Franciscans who have been and will continue to be inconvinienced by a mediocre automation system? Are we to continue to pay for a system that does not meet the most basic elements of service? The city must provide free service until such time MUNI's service is worth paying for. I believe I speak for many citizens, probably a very large electoral block, who is fed up with MUNI and the machine which supports its less than acceptable performance levels. High time is here to overhaul the system: the city must consider the privatization of the public tranportation system. As a progressive voter I cringe at the idea- however our politicians do not have the expertise nor the resolve to tackle MUNI problems. Rider #3: I am absolutely fed up with unreliability of the system. There are no excuses. The city needs to do WHATEVER is necessary at this point to solve the problems. The public needs to force mayor Brown to act. 1. There needs to be a significant organized March/Protest at City Hall. 2. The status of each train should be included in the daily traffic reports on the news and radio. This would allow communters to utilize other options BEFORE being late. As well as holding Muni more accountable due to the daily visibility of how the system is working/not working. 3. Cab vouchers should be offered to riders when the system fails to get them where they are going. Rider #4: I am a Rescue Muni member and Muni rider with a suggestion: until the ATCS computer system is straightened out trains should be manually controlled. For decades San Francisco ran a very efficient streetcar fleet with no computers, using manual control. Why not go back to something that worked very well in the past? Muni needs to find some old retired streetcar operators to show them how to do it right. I can't help believing there is something fishy going on with Muni. The incompetence is not credible. I have ridden many streetcar systems in this country and in Europe and none of them have all this trouble running an urban rail system. Streetcars have been running efficiently for decades. Technology is not the problem. Muni urgently needs to be investigated. Some serious corruption or incompetence is going on here. We must fix this problem. San Francisco can not function without good public transportation. Rider #5: It appeared that the ATCS was turned off or crashed this morning when I got on a 3 car train at Castro Station around 8:30am. I guessed this because the audio messages were "West Portal, Inbound train, 3 car, to Embarcadero" instead of the "approaching, inbound, Embarcadero, followed by, etc." It was still just as slow going in, and I bailed out at Montgomery and walked to Embarcadero after a 35 minute trip. I guess I'm stupid that I did not bail out and switch to BART at Civic Center. I shouldn't trust the Metro under any circumstances. I will say that the train operator was very good at explaining that we were waiting for the train ahead to leave the station several times and even recommended taking surface transit rather than trying to get into Embarcadero. This whole situation is crap. Rider #6: Hi just wnated you to know that the N-Judah line was suppose to be the only lrv to run to the cal-train station. Ha! - I am a regular rider on the N line and I always catch the trains at Folsom and Embarcadero station before it enters the subway. Let me tell you that they not only run the N line but also have been very privately running all other trains to Cal-Train and vice-versa. So if you were to wait for a train at my spot going out to the beach you're also have to wait for n-line and be careful you don't get on the wrong muni line .