Alex Zepeda

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• Commented on SFMTA Votes To Make Nx Judah Express Bus Permanent, Let It Run Later
  As of about 2008, no. The N accounted for almost 7% of all ridership, and about 25% of all streetcar ridership. The Mission corridor sees about 6%, the Geary (2, 38, 38L, 38AX, 38BX) corridor sees about 9% of all...
• Commented on Coverage Roundup: No One's Suing BART, #MuBARTek #OPBart Protest, Right To Safety?
  There's some delicious, delicious irony with BART management acting concerned for the safety of those in BART stations. After all this is the same BART management that employs Linton Johnson... the very same Linton Johnson who advocated that riders perpetrate...
• Commented on If You Were Tried For Murder, Would You Want A Defense Lawyer On Your Jury?
  What the fuck? Can I just point out how screwed up it is that the idea of legal expertise is considered a *bad thing* in a juror? Cause, thanks, it is....
• Commented on SF MTA Head "disappointed and perplexed" By Muni Drivers' Rejection Of Concessions Intended To Restore Service
  If Lum is signing off on this, why aren't rank and file? So this is the second time that rank and file have voted down a proposal... does this mean that Irwin Lum is out of touch with his prols?...
• Commented on Polling Place Report: After-Work Uptick Reported, How's Yours?
  There were so many sex predators it was nuts. I think someone grabbed my ass. People really ought to stay home today just to play it safe....
• Commented on Six SF Polling Places Are Home To Registered Sex Offenders-Is Yours One Of Them?
  Yes! How about on their chest. With a yellow background. Maybe with a diamond shape around it?...
• Commented on Six SF Polling Places Are Home To Registered Sex Offenders-Is Yours One Of Them?
  Nice! Just the kind of good, wholesome yellow journalism I've come to expect from... the Appeal? Ugh. I realize you guys didn't break the story, or even bother doing much beyond a rough summary... and that's probably about good enough...
• Commented on Tree Hugging Group OK With Killing Them For Endorsement Fliers
  As it stands, most people don't bother to look at (shitty) online ads either. I was just looking at some estimates of roughly two-thirds (62-65%) of all Reddit users use an ad blocker. And in a tech savvy area were...
• Commented on Muni's Dripping A) Water B) Alien Blood C) Deadly Poison D) All Of The Above?
  It's condensation from the A/C system. You'd see the same thing on a bus or car parked on a hot day. It's the same stuff you see dripping down the windows of the trains too. Think of it as a...
• Commented on Kids Frolic In Poop At Baker Beach While Nudists Stay Clean
  Clearly it's impossible for children to be the source of the contamination. Oh, for heaven's sake! Won't someone think of the poor suffering children!...
• Commented on Muni Won't Tell Us How You Could Get Trapped With Your Arm Sticking Out Of Their Train
  Yeah, it is easy. Guess what? I've done it. The two hour commutes downtown were too much, I agree. And, yes, I am one of those people who will wait for the next two-car outbound train (which unless you're taking...
• Commented on N Judah, J Church Back In Business
  Your link to this article (via twitter): she'sa broken....
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: How Does Pavement to Parks' "Parklet Permit" System Work?
  Eve: If you're not shitting rainbows you're not doing your job. Katie: From your description neither you nor the other guy were being too pushy. But, come on, this is city government. At what point can you stop and realize...
• Commented on Muni Won't Tell Us How You Could Get Trapped With Your Arm Sticking Out Of Their Train
  Yes it can happen. Let's say the sensor is miscalibrated, bam the doors close and nothing notices that something is in the way. Let's say something's broken, same thing. Ever tried to use the emergency exit lever, but the doors...
• Commented on Single Mechanical Problem Causes Massive, 5 Hour Muni Delays Across System
  And that's what happens when you don't do preventative maintenance. The carbon on the pantograph wears out and you tear up the overhead wiring. FFS, if the MTA actually had drivers (or maintenance techs, or SOMEONE) do safety inspections on...
• Commented on How To Stop Your SFGate Spam
  Frankly I'm surprised that the Chron is going out of business....
• Commented on Muni Reminds Us All That Their Fare Inspectors Aren't Law Enforcement Officials
  So if fare enforcement is a net drain on the SFMTA budget, what's the point? Being morally superior? Do it on your own dime... Your fares don't cover the cost of your trips (especially if you've got a FastPass). Think...
• Commented on Looking For Burritos In All The Wrong Places
  That one on Taraval? El Burrito Express on 26th? Eh... the carnitas are good (a bit salty, very tender and moist), the tamales are WAY too salty and otherwise gigantic. I'm not a huge fan of the gravy that seems...
• Commented on Market Street Traffic, Transit Disrupted After Car/Muni Accident That Injured One
  That is not a Jeep and not an SUV. It's a Chevy HHR, which is to say it's a rather small economy car with a comparatively low center of gravity. It should be relatively hard to flip one of those...
• Commented on Audit: Crime Lab Doing A Better Job With DNA
  No shit they're not skimming the DNA. It's harder to get high off of snorting DNA samples....
• Commented on Supe Calls For Muni To End Fare Inspection "saturation raids"
  Newsflash Greg! Fare enforcement costs a lot more money than it brings in. In an ideal situation fare enforcement might be used to scare people into compliance. But with labor costs what they are, and the MTA's grasp on organization...
• Commented on How Will SF's Boycott Of Arizona Businesses Apply To Phoenix-Based SF Weekly?
  WTF? If the legislature isn't representing the people what is it doing? A lot of people might not like it, but a lot of people voted for the legislative members who approved this law. If you think that the AZ...
• Commented on Eight Injured, Four Seriously, In 19th Ave Crash
  Old people? How about everyone? How about testing skill instead of book knowledge?...
• Commented on Reports: MTA Chief Nat Ford Refuses To Read Blogs
  Why? Because he's been told not to. That's why. Anyone remember the apology letter he posted on sfmta.com early in his tenure? Maggie Lynch (ugh) got that taken down right quick. The head of the MTA is not a position...
• Commented on Muni Would Like To Ask You To Tax Yourself
  Yeah. No fucking way. Before raising more revenue the MTA absolutely needs to address wasteful practices top to bottom. I'm fine with increased revenues going towards maintaining service and improving infrastructure... but what guarantee do we have that jacking up...
• Commented on Muni Solves The Mystery Of The Data Collection Officers
  So, what, you've gotta wear a GPS device to board MUNI? Ehh…...
• Commented on What Do Muni's "Data Collection" Officers Do? Not Even The SF MTA Seems To Know
  @Akit yeah, those are the people counters that the MTA used for the TEP data. As for what these guys are supposed to be doing, head over to: http://www.sfdhr.org/index.aspx?page=32 And start trying to figure it out. You can find a...
• Commented on You Asked: Can You Use Translink On Cable Cars?
  Sorry, that was more of a rhetorical question. IIRC, the reason that the cable cars still use wooden brakes (vs a more effective friction material) is because of that whole historical nonsense. It's either that, or the MTA is far...
• Commented on You Asked: Can You Use Translink On Cable Cars?
  What? Why don't they use the same devices that the pop cops use? I've had one pop cop use his reader to scan through my TL card history and, because the readers on the train weren't working, validate my fare...
• Commented on Throw That Ticket Away; Muni Can't Make Fare Cheats Pay
  Yeah, well, how much prevention will pop cops provide if the general public knows that they've got no teeth? If you're of the mindset to not pay for public transportation, are you really going to sweat getting a ticket by...