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MUNI’s Plans Fundamental Flaw
By Wheelman, Jan 16, 2007
In numerous bus reorganization plans that have been proposed over the years by MUNI, a major consideration always seemed to be that a bus or transit line should pass within a few blocks of every location in The City. In my view, that is a fundamental flaw inserted at the very beginning of the process which must be changed if we are to ever significantly improve service for the vast majority of riders.
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Worthless Spending on MUNI
By Wheelman, Dec 14, 2006
Like most San Francisco residents I have used public transit in other cities where I have lived and those where I have visited. During grade school I rode local buses to school as well as around town. It was a suburb with much less population density than San Francisco but about the same 7 by 7 mile size. Each morning for many years, I walked 3 1/2 blocks to the bus stop knowing that the bus would arrive at, say, 8:14 and that it would reach the stop near my school at perhaps 8:35. If I missed that first bus, I knew I could still get to school on time by catching the next bus at ,say, 8:31 but then I would have to run from the stop to school to be on time. In the 5 or 6 years that I did this neither the buses nor I was late except perhaps under blizzard conditions.
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
By The Wheelman, Nov 08, 2006
That’s my title for the current anti-car crusade now underway in “The City that Knows How.” It's a pretty rare week that some city official doesn't come up with a new way to make driving in the city just a little - or a lot - tougher. The latest new 'cut' on the driving public is a move by our bicycle friends, among other, to keep cars from using the roadways which pass the new de Young Museum, the Japanese Tea Garden and the soon to be rebuilt Academy of Sciences. Perhaps we can refer to this as the “Music Concourse Sanfu.”
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A New Sweet Term: Traffic Calming
By Wheelman, Oct 08, 2006
A new phrase has joined our civic language, one which all San Francisco drivers should learn to fear; it is “traffic calming.” Like all politically correct speech it is a newly minted term artfully designed to sound sweet and harmless while cleverly disguising its real intents. On its face, its proponents assume, no one could be opposed to something as innocent as “calm traffic.”
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Downtown Terminal: Unwise Investment
The Wheelman, Jul 14, 2006
This column was established to discuss various transportation matters. This month the subject will be trains and specifically the downtown train and bus terminal. This may well be the first place where you will hear the news: there will be no superfast train coming into downtown San Francisco. Therefore building a terminal for such a train is not only stupid but, worse yet, a terrible waste of money that can be better spent on transit projects that will work and benefit city residents.
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