[Rescue Muni] Re: Digest rescuemuni.v001.n420

Andrew Sullivan (andrew@sulli.org)
Mon, 8 Feb 99 21:40:23 -0800

Robert wrote:

>My last two trips on the 3-Jackson on Saturdays are ridiculous...60
>minute round trip with 15 minutes on one end, and 4 on the other. So 41
>minutes running time...with normal passenger load (light) and normal
>traffic (medium) the actual running time (without running like a scared
>rabbit) is about 56 minutes, tonight, with heavy bridge traffic backing
>up across Market and heavy party activity around Union Square, the
>actual running time was nearer 65 minutes.

Is this the same as at other times of day? If not, why the short runs?
Schedules that nobody can meet surely can't help us provide better
service.

Do you have a sense of the total delay caused by traffic on your run,
particularly bridge traffic? How much (if at all) do PCOs and
transit-only lanes help?

Andrew

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