Muni Malfunction Snarls Trains in Tunnel

Given how often this is happening and the incredible uselessness of his information, Paul Rose should just set up an auto-responder for his incoming email: "Yes Muni is broken. No we don't know why. Yes we'll try to fix it. No I don't know when." Would provide just as much communication, but it would at least be cheaper.

When I finally got to Embarcadero this morning, my train out to the ballpark had a broken door, so we had yet another delay while an inspector fumbled around with that.

Somehow Muni operated in the subway for decades without any automatic train control system, and at more than 1 mph to boot. And yet we're spending billions of dollars to turn a slow, yet cheap and functional bus (the 30 Stockton) into an expensive subway that will undoubtedly suffer from the same constant failures as the rest of Muni's rail division.

If SFMTA cannot manage to safely and reliably operate a simple light rail service on a completely dedicated right of way without this kind of chaos occurring on a weekly basis, why on earth are we trusting them to add even more complexity?