[Rescue Muni] Miscellaneous Replies

Max Pong (pong2@llnl.gov)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:03:04 -0700 (PDT)

*Richard writes: "By requiring that all vehicles proceed through
Embarcadero, reverse in the MMT, and reappear at the outbound Embarcadero
platform, Muni is wasting at least four minutes PER TRIP, on every trip of
every run of every non-N service in the system. "

I agree. Muni is also wasting 20 minutes per trip by running every N (2
cars) to Caltrain with only a few passengers on board. Why not run the J
to Caltrain?

*Eric writes: "Making matters worse, it seems to me, is all these single
car trains. Clearly ATCS cannot handle the 'throughput', so why all the 1
car trains?

The only thing worse than no trains is a 1 car train.

* Max writes: "In the Tuesday Examiner, P. Johnston of Muni stated the ATCS
was running on
Monday "without any glitches and was not causing delays". Fact or fiction?"

As our President would say, Muni made a legally true statement.