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A Muni crew repairing wire last year. Photo: SFMTA

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Bad Splices Point to Fundamental Problems at Muni

By Roger Rudick | Sep 2, 2020 | No Comments

Last week's Muni meltdown forces managers to admit they don't do in-house quality control, didn't do full operations testing, and don't check with other transit agencies on how to fix common problems

The situation earlier in August on the Embarcadero. Photo: Bruce Halperin via twitter

Update: Embarcadero Construction Site Gets a Bike Detour

By Roger Rudick | Aug 27, 2020 | No Comments

But why wasn't there a detour as part of the original traffic plan?

A recent image of the Wasco viaduct, one of the many construction sites that are part of California HSR. Photo: CAHSRA

HSR Work Continues–as Does the L.A. Times’s Catastrophization

By Roger Rudick | Aug 26, 2020 | No Comments

Plus a call for the paper's many unnamed "sources" to get in touch with Streetsblog

A Muni repair crew Monday morning at West Portal. Photo: Jeffrey Tumlin

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Muni Meltdown Blamed on Faulty Parts

By Roger Rudick | Aug 25, 2020 | No Comments

Overhead wire splices fail once put under full load, knocking out Muni rail. Which begs the question: why weren't they put under full load before reopening the system?

An N Judah at Duboce Park on Sunday. Photo from slowstreetsdefender's twitter.

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Muni Rail Returns (and then it doesn’t)

By Roger Rudick | Aug 24, 2020 | No Comments

After breakdowns, SFMTA gave up and cancelled rail service again Monday evening

Building a Better “Faster Bay Area” w/ Margarita Parra Cobaleda and Shiloh Ballard

By Damien Newton | Aug 21, 2020 | No Comments

We close out the series with a dual interview with Shiloh Ballard, the executive director of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, and Margarita Parra Cobaleda, a director with I ebike and board member of SVBC.