Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bus Stop Spacing

For Bus Stop Consolidation, a Good Policy Will Be Good Politics

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

Flickr photo: ehoyer With support for bus stop consolidation building, local leaders are starting to weigh in on political strategies for implementing a new stop spacing policy. For Pi Ra of the Senior Action Network, the best political strategy is to start with a good policy, before recommendations to eliminate specific stops are out. The […]

Bus Stop Consolidation: The Times Have Changed

By Dave Snyder | Jul 2, 2009 | 52 Comments

Flickr photo: erik kuo Does the 14-Mission really need to stop at every block on Mission Street? Does the 21-Hayes? Consolidating bus stops could speed transit vehicles and reduce dwell time, saving service hours that could be used to increase frequencies and add hours of operation. Yet the MTA has avoided the topic for years, […]

Muni Bus-Stop Spacing Analysis Shows 70 Percent of Stops Too Close

By Matthew Roth | Jun 10, 2009 | 60 Comments

Flickr photo: Octoferret The MTA this afternoon released analysis of bus stop spacing showing what anyone who has been on Muni knows: there are way too many stops too close together (PDF). Overall nearly 70 percent of the 4,000 bus and rail stops in the city don’t adhere to the MTA’s own distance policy, and […]

Is It Time for Muni to Consolidate Bus Stops?

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 28, 2009 | 62 Comments

As the MTA Board considers solutions to reduce its enormous $129 million deficit, bus stop consolidation should be at the top of its agenda.