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415-273-1558 • www Caltrain Ext./Transbay Terminal Caltrain Ext./Transbay November 2002 November San Francisco, CA 94119-0966 San Francisco, Help Rescue A Streetcar Help Rescue Expansion Ideas Expansion RESCUE MUNI Muni's Service Transfer The Newsletter of The Newsletter P.O. Box 190966 Box P.O. City CarShare RESCUE MUNI No. 18, November 2002 .rescuemuni.org Transfer RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED RETURN SERVICE Inside: Runoff From the Chair 2 Muni's Service Expansion Plans 3 Endorsement MTA CAC Update 5 For Supervisor, District 4: Place Stamp Here Transbay Terminal & Caltrain Ext. 7 Introducing City CarShare 9 Fiona Ma Car #162, Where Are You? 11 (No endorsement for District 8) Volunteer Opportunities 13 VOTE December 10!t Page 16 RESCUE MUNI Calendar 14 Page 1 From the Chair Membership Form An update on Rescue Muni's doings from Steering Committee Chair Andrew Sullivan. hanks to the hard work of our vol and will need your help - watch for We need YOU to help us Rescue Muni. Tunteers, Rescue Muni has had a survey forms and instructions in the Join us by mailing this form to P.O. Box 190966, San Francisco, CA 94119-0966. very successful 2002. Here's just a bit next Transfer. You can also join online at www.rescuemuni.org. of what we've been up to, working for Oversight: Three members of Name: better public transit in San Francisco Muni's Steering Committee (Chair Membership category: and the region. With your help we Daniel Murphy, Joan Downey, and Address: __ $5 Student / Limited Income can have even more success in 2003! David Pilpel) and three other active __ $15 Basic Muni Reliability: Rescue Muni members of Rescue Muni (Nia __ $40 Sustaining completed its sixth annual Riders' Sur- Crowder, Norm Rolfe and To m Phone: __ $100 Contributing vey in March, showing that Muni's reli- Wetzel) serve on this committee cre- Fax: __ Other: $_______ ability had improved significantly since ated by Proposition E (1999) to pro- Email: its worst point in 1998. Delays were vide active citizen oversight of the Rescue Muni may from time to time cut in half, from 28% of riders delayed Municipal Transportation Agency, which Muni lines you ride: publish membership lists with names in 1998 to 14% in 2002. This year, 67 now includes the Department of Park- only. May we publish your name only volunteers collected 2,464 data points ing and Traffic. The CAC has studied # riders in your household: as a member? Y N and tracked all major lines in the sys- carefully Muni's budget, service plans, tem. Thanks to Survey Coordinator marketing, alternative fuels pilot pro- I would like to volunteer! Y N Signature: Collin Maslov and all the volunteers! gram, and other issues affecting San ____________________________ We'll conduct another survey next year Continued on page 10 Steering Committee SPUR, 312 Sutter, 5th floor (chair: About the cartoon: Seattle's voters just passed a resolution to plan, build, and fund Chair: Andrew Sullivan Howard Strassner, 415-661-8786, a monorail connecting northern and southern neighborhoods to downtown. Vice-Chair: Daniel Murphy [email protected]) It's a great example of transit advocates making real change happen! See Charlotte Breckenridge, Eric Carlson, Service Expansion discusses ways www.elevated.org for Seattle's plans to expand elevated transit, thanks to the hard Joan Downey, Dan Krause, Richard Muni can add service. Meets last Tues- work of the voters! Mlynarik, David Pilpel, Howard day of each month at SPUR, 6:30 PM; Strassner, David Vasquez see calendar at left or contact the act- Transfer Executive Committee ing chair. (chair: Eric Carlson, 415-863- Chair: Andrew Sullivan (acting) 5578, ericrescue@ yahoo.com) the newsletter of RESCUE MUNI at San Francisco, Calif. Vice-Chair: Richard Mlynarik November 2002 - No. 18 POSTMASTER: Send all address Membership Sec'y: Daniel Murphy Other Rescue Muni Initiatives Editor: Eric Carlson changes to Transfer, RESCUE MUNI, P.O. Recording Sec'y: Howard Strassner Membership (coordinator: Daniel Designers: David Vasquez, Andrew Box 190966, San Francisco, CA Corresponding Sec'y: Eric Carlson Murphy, 665-4074, [email protected]) Sullivan 94119-0966. Treasurer: Joan Downey Surveys (coordinator: Collin Maslov, Contributing writers: Eric Carlson, Joan © 2002 RESCUE MUNI Coordinators: 371-0726, [email protected]) Downey, Allison Drucker, Dan RESCUE MUNI (Riders for an Efficient, Charlotte Breckenridge, David Pilpel, Krause, Rick Laubscher, Gabriel Safe, Consistent, Utilized, and Expedi- Andrew Sullivan, Dan Krause Form a committee! Any member Metcalf tious Muni), founded 1996, is a volun- may form a committee. If it meets at Transfer is published (roughly) quarterly teer-run, not-for-profit transit riders’ Standing Committees least four times per year, the commit- by RESCUE MUNI, P.O. Box 190966, association. Muni Metro: addresses scheduling and tee may request appointment of a rep- San Francisco, CA 94119-0966. Yearly Hotline: 415-273-1558 reliability of Muni's light rail lines. Meets resentative to the Steering Committee, membership dues are $15 ($5 for lim- www.rescuemuni.org second Wed. of every month, 6 p.m., at Rescue Muni's policy-making body. ited income). First-class postage paid [email protected] Page 2 Page 15 RESCUE MUNI Calendar Rescue Muni Responds to Muni's New Coming events, for the transit activist. If you would like to form a committee or add an Service Expansion Proposals event to the calendar, let us know! Updates are on www.rescuemuni.org. Muni has requested comment on a series of service improvements. Steering Committee date event location member Eric Carlson describes the proposed changes, and our recommendations. DECEMBER 2002 n February 2001, Bayview Advocates agrees and asks Muni to lay track Note: RM Metro Committee Cancelled for December I(aka Earthjustice) filed suit against in the raised Right-of-way (ROW) 12/3, 4 PM Municipal Transportation Agency Board City Hall, Rm. 400 Muni, AC Transit, and the Metropolitan it is planning for future rail service. 12/5, 5:30 PM MTA Citizens' Advisory Council 401 Van Ness, #334 Transportation Commission (MTC). This rail service could connect to 12/9, 6 PM RM Executive & Steering Committees Special location - The suit alleged that the agencies vio- the J and N lines and connect to call for details lated the Clean Air Act, failed to com- Muni’s barns, the Embarcadero rail 12/17, 4 PM Municipal Transportation Agency Board City Hall, Rm. 400 ply with the 1982 Bay Area Air Quality lines, and cross town to the N and 12/20, 5 PM Geary Rail Promotion and Email allison@ Plan, and demanded reinstitution of to Golden Gate Park. Membership Recruitment rescuemuni.org transit funding in the region. As part of • 19th Avenue and Park Presidio TBA DecemberRM Service Expansion Committee SPUR the Clean Air Act, the MTC commit- from Stonestown to Lake. Rescue JANUARY 2003 ted to working with local transit pro- Muni agrees and suggests a center 1/2, 5:30 PM MTA Citizens' Advisory Council 401 Van Ness, #334 viders to reduce ozone pollution by lane with boarding islands. 1/7, 4 PM Municipal Transportation Agency Board City Hall, Rm. 400 increasing public transportation rider- • Folsom from The Embarcadero to 1/13, 6 PM RM Executive & Steering Committees SPUR ship and getting commuters out of their 16" Street 1/15, 6 PM RM Metro Committee SPUR cars by 1987. That didn’t happen – in • Geary from Pacific Ocean to Van 1/21, 4 PM Municipal Transportation Agency Board City Hall, Rm. 400 fact Muni’s ridership dropped 19.5%. Ness. Rescue Muni supports light 1/28, 6:30PM RM Service Expansion Committee SPUR Muni signed a settlement agreement rail transit (LRT) on Geary. Muni TBA January RM General Membership Meeting TBA that identified projects for further de- proposes a BRT system and we FEBRUARY 2003 velopment. We are delighted that many support it as a first step to LRT. 2/4, 4 PM Municipal Transportation Agency Board City Hall, Rm. 400 of the initiatives come from Rescue We support installation of rails 2/6, 5:30 PM MTA Citizens' Advisory Council 401 Van Ness, #334 Muni’s work on service expansion. In during the construction of BRT so 2/10, 6 PM RM Executive & Steering Committees SPUR fact, may of these ideas were initially that conversion can be easily done 2/12, 6 PM RM Metro Committee SPUR proposed by Rescue Muni volunteers! later. We offered detailed sugges- 2/18, 4 PM Municipal Transportation Agency Board City Hall, Rm. 400 Here’s a summary of the projects tions on getting through, under or 2/25, 6:30PM RM Service Expansion Committee SPUR Muni recommends and Rescue Muni’s over cross traffic at Fillmore, MARCH 2003 - Muni Riders' Survey - Watch for it! comments: Divisadero and Masonic. Six lines are slated for bus rapid • Potrero. Rescue Muni calls for an transit (BRT). Buses make limited exclusive ROW on Bayshore now Wash that Muni rage right outta your hair! It’s stops, move fast, often have their own before intensive development cheaper than therapy. Need that special holiday gift? lane, and often are able to ‘hold’ a green makes it more difficult; we agree Give the gift of Puni! light to get through it before it turns. and advocate for exclusive ROW Because buses cycle through their on Potrero Avenue Paperback, full color cover, includes 82 classic Puni routes faster, they can carry more pas- • Van Ness Avenue between Market PUNI strips, character bios, and Puni bus lines. Also includes sengers with the same number of ve- and Lombard. Rescue Muni sup- the unreleased APOCALYPSE MUNI saga, a parody of hicles and operator hours.