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Candlestuck Park
By Wheelman, Jun 13, 2009
Once upon a time this city had as its motto: “The City that Knows How” — with good reason that slogan seems to have been retired along with the thought behind it. The City built Candlestick Park back in the 1950s in order to lure the New York Giants out to the Bay Area. It has sat on that accomplishment for over nearly 60 years. During the intervening half-century we have watched the Giants abandon the place for a more convenient location downtown. After they moved out, the stadium has sat empty around 350 days and nights every year. For a number of years now the sole remaining tenant, the 49ers have also said that they want to move and are now actively trying to obtain a new facility down in Santa Clara
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Fast Pass: Good, Bad, Or Ugly? Ugly!
By Wheelman, Member 'I Love my Wheels', Mar 20, 2009
It seems to be the nearly universal view of the San Francisco community that the MUNI Fast Pass is a wonderful innovation; I disagree. My first introduction to the Fast Pass was back in the late 70s or early 80s while I still walked or rode my bike to work. One cold, wet, winter morning a neighbor offered me the use of his Fast Pass provided I returned it to him before his evening shift. During that day and ever since, I have wondered why a perpetually deficit ridden transit system like MUNI would give away free rides, particularly to people well able to pay a reasonable fare.
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A Tale of Two Cities
By Wheelman, Apr 14, 2007
There have recently been several public announcements of a proposed MUNI subway line connecting ‘Chinatown’ with the current Amtrak Station at 4th Street and Townsend. I have put ‘Chinatown’ in quotes because it is not clear that there is any exact description of its boundaries. For present purposes I will assume it probably runs from Kearney to Larkin and Union to Bush even though that encompasses a great deal more area that the few blocks of tourist attractions adjacent to Grant Avenue.
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Cal-Train (Or BART)
By Wheelman, Mar 10, 2007
In the 1960s the residents of this city voted for an expensive and controversial transit project now known as BART. Other counties like San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Marin opted out of the project so that a very significant portion of the cost and much of the construction disruption took place in San Francisco. Mission and Market streets were torn up for nearly 10 years and countless stores and businesses went out of business or incurred huge losses. But, as a result of the forward thinking of the residents of The City we now have a system that allows commuters to easily enter the central business district for jobs as well as shopping and cultural events.
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Transit for City Residents First
By Wheelman, Feb 15, 2007
In my last column, I suggested that our Muni management should drop its current model based upon service to every area of the City and focus their efforts instead upon maximizing service to the great majority who utilize certain routes. Let’s select as our example the Mission Street Corridor which runs all the way from San Mateo County line to the Embarcadero. The primary bus line is the #14 Mission supplemented in part by the #47 and #49.
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