Outwalking Muni -- the Story That Never Gets Old
Categories: Media, Public Transit
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| Jim Herd |
| Sometimes walking is the only option |
In any event, while Reisman didn't win his matchup with the bus line that has been the bane of his existence, it was still entertaining to read his blow-by-blow. And though the 30-Stockton rolled past Market one block ahead of a man on foot, that doesn't ameliorate the fact that this bus line -- and many other Muni routes -- are hideously slow.
A fun article that makes a salient point? That's a good thing. Just as it was back in 1998 when a pair of Chronicle scribes tested whether a pedestrian could outhoof the N-Judah (he did).
So, while this was a creatively written article, it was hardly a creative premise. But that's not a criticism -- as Monty Python put it, "It's not necessarily a good thing just to be different ... No, quite, there is equal humor in the conventional." Thirteen years after the Chron's pedestrian vs. Muni article, the line is still molasses-like enough that such articles are warranted.
Sadly, that's because -- as SF Weekly wrote last year -- a number of methods of speeding up Muni available to the system have not been employed (Muni is, in fact, the slowest major metropolitan transit service in North America). These solutions -- transit-only lanes, expedited boarding, etc. -- aren't "creative" either. But they, too, would work just fine.
And they'd be a fraction of the price of the farcical Central Subway project that will one day supplant Reisman's white whale, the 30-Stockton. Say what you will about the godforsaken bus, but it manages to fail for less than billions of dollars.
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