July 11, 2011-The City of San Francisco MUNI operators are considered to be "Professional Drivers," but to many of it's ridership that accolade can be very misleading. The tip of the iceberg started with the combination of the Nation's downturn economy and the City's deficit budget crisis, which the MUNI operators were the only City's group refusing contractual concessions. The MUNI's Union claiming the operators were being made scapegoat, while the main culprits were the mismanagement. The City's voters in the November 2010 election disagreed and voted 64.94% yes to 35.06% no-Proposition G, initiative to eliminate pay guarantees for MUNI operators. The City Charter guaranteed second highest operators salaries in the nation.
What happened the last few months:
#1-Accidents still happen, but luckily no new fatalities.
#2-Missed run still happen, nobody can find the cures for those mysterious Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday sick-calls. Must be the drinking water!
#3-Switchbacks still happen, living or working near the end of the line on 14-Mission, L-Taraval or N-Judah requires lots of fortitude and patience. I discovered that 30-Stockton to Marina District trolleys at the evening are "relabeled" Van Ness Street and therefore disappeared from the transit grid. So much for the policy of the next bus should be 5 minutes behind the "Scotty please beam us up" bus.
#4-Management and Union agree on a contract proposal, but the operators overwhelm voted it down.
#5-Proposition G sub-plot; an independent arbitrator upheld the contract and certain faction of the operators wanted to protest with a service slowdown. The problem with that idea is the public do not care, since MUNI been in a slowdown mode the last twenty years.
#6-July 7, 2011; SF Examiner posted an article "Parking placards for the disabled found on Muni workers' autos." This is really a 'doctor confidential' issues, the operator's personal physician might declared it a disability, but the City's appointed physician which exam the operator every two years to certify the Class A driver license deem the operator to be fit and entrusted to transport a busload of human beings. In honesty something is very strange!
So what happened this morning at 9:08 a.m. at the intersection of Stockton & Broadway:
#1-The MUNI operator is stopped within the crosswalk.
#2-The 45-Union bus is outbound to Lyon & Greenwich, traveling along a single lane Stockton Street with the posted speed limit of 25 mph. I presume the bus was traveling less than that along the Chinatown corridor of delivery trucks and careless pedestrians.
#3-Maybe the driver did not noticed that the light changed yellow and then red.
#4-Maybe the driver was waiting for a vehicle ahead of him making a left turn; but signs are posted "No Left Turn" and number one rule of MUNI driving etiquette---hit the honk immediately if the vehicle in front do not move!
#5-He's a PROFESSIONAL IDIOT!
What happened the last few months:
#1-Accidents still happen, but luckily no new fatalities.
#2-Missed run still happen, nobody can find the cures for those mysterious Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday sick-calls. Must be the drinking water!
#3-Switchbacks still happen, living or working near the end of the line on 14-Mission, L-Taraval or N-Judah requires lots of fortitude and patience. I discovered that 30-Stockton to Marina District trolleys at the evening are "relabeled" Van Ness Street and therefore disappeared from the transit grid. So much for the policy of the next bus should be 5 minutes behind the "Scotty please beam us up" bus.
#4-Management and Union agree on a contract proposal, but the operators overwhelm voted it down.
#5-Proposition G sub-plot; an independent arbitrator upheld the contract and certain faction of the operators wanted to protest with a service slowdown. The problem with that idea is the public do not care, since MUNI been in a slowdown mode the last twenty years.
#6-July 7, 2011; SF Examiner posted an article "Parking placards for the disabled found on Muni workers' autos." This is really a 'doctor confidential' issues, the operator's personal physician might declared it a disability, but the City's appointed physician which exam the operator every two years to certify the Class A driver license deem the operator to be fit and entrusted to transport a busload of human beings. In honesty something is very strange!
So what happened this morning at 9:08 a.m. at the intersection of Stockton & Broadway:
#2-The 45-Union bus is outbound to Lyon & Greenwich, traveling along a single lane Stockton Street with the posted speed limit of 25 mph. I presume the bus was traveling less than that along the Chinatown corridor of delivery trucks and careless pedestrians.
#3-Maybe the driver did not noticed that the light changed yellow and then red.
#4-Maybe the driver was waiting for a vehicle ahead of him making a left turn; but signs are posted "No Left Turn" and number one rule of MUNI driving etiquette---hit the honk immediately if the vehicle in front do not move!
#5-He's a PROFESSIONAL IDIOT!
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