MUNI Hearing- Safety First for Transit System
From Supervisor Elsbernd:
12:45 PM PDT on August 7, 2009
From Supervisor Elsbernd:
“The City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee will hold a hearing examining MUNI safety standards for bus and train operators … in response to the July 18 MUNI accident at West Portal Station that injured more than 40 passengers. The need for a hearing on this subject was made even more evident following the August 3 accident between two trains and an automobile on Market Street that injured six.”
Michael Rhodes is a former reporter for Streetsblog San Francisco. He lives in the Mission Dolores neighborhood and is a graduate of UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning.
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