Broke Muni Announces Route Changes: R.I.P. 26 Valencia!
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| Soon the beloved 26 will be a relic, just like this '69 GMC fossil |
We waited for you on Valencia for half hours at a time, expectantly stepping out on the street to see if your lights beckoned from afar. As you approached, we chanted "Be-van! Be-van!" in honor of the supervisor who lobbied to save you after Muni threatened to whack your faithful service last year. We then settled on board for your quaint, backroads route to Glen Park, dropping us right where we were going like BART never could. A crazy passenger once told us "You dropped your smile," and pushed up the edges of his mouth for effect. He was right: We shouldn't have stepped on board with anything other than glee in our hearts. Even when one of your late-night drivers always manned you like a veritable bat out of hell, taking the corners of sleepy Glen Park like a Formula One racer and nearly hurling us from our seats, we loved you still.
The problem was that we were always one of the only people on the route, and today MUNI announced you are being cut forever starting Dec. 5 to patch up a $129 million deficit for this fiscal year. You are not alone: The 4 Sutter, 7 Haight, 20 Colombus, 53 Southern Heights, and 89 Laguna Honda will be whacked as well. Surely, faithful riders of those routes are saddened, too, but we don't know about them.
We don't really even care about all the other routes that are being changed, having their hours reduced or even increased, or even the new routes being created, all of which people can learn about by clicking here.
We only care about you, 26. You've served us well. We'll now shuffle off to BART with calloused feet and a heavy heart.
Photo | Mike's GMC Bus Page
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