Muni Budget Fate On Hold
FINAL UPDATE (3:11 p.m.) If you're here for the big Muni news, it is that there will be none -- not for another week,...
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Greg Dewar said:
May 20, 2009 11:47 AM
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This talk of eliminating BART rides with MUNI passes makes for a great soundbite. Unfortunately it runs afoul of some of the key agreements that make BART legal.
When BART wanted to run the line down Mission Street, the only way they could was to use MUNI's right of ways left over from the old Interurban service that went to San Mateo. Because MUNI was precluded from ever offering its own service under Market or on the surface with rail, an agreement was struck to allow the use of FastPasses within SF to ride BART.
This talk of eliminating that would be yet another example of a betrayal by BART and our electeds to San Francisco, the first being that line down Geary St. Instead we're taxed over and over to build more suburban stations and this BS extension to San Jose.