Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bus Stop Spacing

SFMTA Considers Service Restoration, Counts on Labor Savings

By Matthew Roth | Nov 5, 2010 | 11 Comments

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency continues to work with Mayor Gavin Newsom and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu to identify strategies for restoring the remaining 40 percent of service that was cut in May, part of a political negotiation that is expected to cost the agency $20 million. Though only one piece of […]

SFMTA Releases Bus Stop Consolidation Plan

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 3, 2010 | 8 Comments

The SFMTA has released a much-anticipated bus stop consolidation plan [pdf] and while it is only in the planning stages and will take a concerted outreach effort to pass, the agency is finally publicly embracing a measure long pushed by transit advocates as an inexpensive way to speed up the system and make it more […]

Muni Service Restoration Task Force Considering Bus Stop Optimization

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 8, 2010 | 25 Comments

An SFMTA task force charged with figuring out how to fully restore last May’s Muni service cuts is narrowing its list of actions and strategies to reduce travel time on the system, and bus stop consolidation, or “optimization,” is likely to be adopted as a recommendation. As Streetsblog has reported, stop optimization could greatly improve […]

Chinatown Students Conduct Thorough Surveys of SFMTA Bus Stops

By Matthew Roth | Apr 23, 2010 | 12 Comments

CCDC volunteer Bill Yu measures the width of a sidewalk for a bus stop survey. Photos: Matthew Roth One of the central criticisms of Muni’s objective to consolidate bus stops is that it hasn’t conducted thorough demographic analysis of the people who use each stop, particularly seniors and the disabled. Rather than rely solely on […]

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Streetfilms: Making Muni Faster and More Reliable by Consolidating Stops

By John Hamilton | Apr 20, 2010 | 4 Comments

A common complaint among Muni riders is that the bus simply stops too often. It turns out they may be on to something: according to transit experts and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which operates Muni, consolidating some bus stops is one of the cheapest and quickest ways to speed up Muni. That’s […]

Stop Spacing Plan on the Back Burner; Will Muni Let a Crisis go to Waste?

By Michael Rhodes | Feb 11, 2010 | 16 Comments

Bringing Muni’s stop spacing in line with its stated policies could mean shorter travel times – and less service reduction. Flickr photo: frankfarm Consolidating Muni stops that are too close to meet the MTA’s own spacing standards could speed up travel times for riders and save the cash-strapped agency millions of dollars annually. But in […]

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