Get ready for $2.50 Muni
As your Muni train creeps this morning, close your eyes and dream your ride was 25 percent faster. Or cleaner. Then open them, and face reality.
As your Muni train creeps this morning, close your eyes and dream your ride was 25 percent faster. Or cleaner. Then open them, and face reality.
As your Muni train creeps along underground this morning on the way to work, close your eyes and dream of a ride that was 25 percent faster. Or 25 percent cleaner. Then open them, and face reality: Muni’s not getting faster or cleaner, just more expensive.
The chronically-broke MTA is dreaming up ways to fill about $100 million in current and future deficits. In addition to the prospect of a $2.50 cash Muni fare with transfer, San Franciscans might be feeding meters at nights and on Sundays, and forking over $68 for a downtown parking meter ticket.
Much of the $100 million in deficits would vanish if Muni could speed up the average speed of their service by just 1 mph. It’s now a pretty miserable 8 mph.
So, if your train hasn’t moved yet, close your eyes again, and keep them closed this time. You’re going to be here a while.
Jesse Garnier is the editor and founder of SFBay. A Mission District native, he also teaches journalism as associate professor at San Francisco State University.
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