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0 pointsanigbrowl14y ago0 comments

Meanwhile on Muni: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQAy8PzgZ8

This has happened a few times this year. Although the video is dated April 1, I can vouch for the authenticity; this is my neighborhood line and I have gotten used to the recurring problems of particular rail carriages. If it were up to me I'd scrap the light rail on the west side of the city and put in buses instead.

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georgieporgie14y ago· 1 in thread

It took me most of the way through that video to realize that one of the doors was open. It's frightening that the door malfunctioned and that the sensors apparently aren't working (or don't exist).

I've ridden Muni only a handful of times. On one of them, a homeless man threatened to cut my throat with a knife. Admittedly, it was because I stepped up when he began screaming at a non-white person (Middle-Eastern, perhaps, with some variant of head scarf) and her toddler.

anigbrowlOP14y ago

Oh the sensors work - they make an earsplitting beeping when the door fails to close. But sometimes the drivers just take off anyway. This is a proble, with some of the older drivers who are only thinking of their pension in my view; there are a lot of hardworking and safety-minded drivers and station crew, but it only takes one irresponsible person to ruin the good work of many others.

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