More than a dozen Muni lines will see an increase in service starting the weekend of April 23.
More than a dozen Muni lines will see an increase in service starting the weekend of April 23 as part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s effort to improve transit service throughout The City.
The service increases are part of the transit agency’s current 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 budget, which included a 10 percent increase in Muni service. Since 2015, the transit has increased and expanded service on several of its routes and will do so again next weekend on 17 routes, said SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose:
“Citywide, Muni riders will see 17 lines with more frequent service, 10 lines with expanded service hours, two lines that make new connections to BART and two new Owl routes launched.”
The transit agency will make it’s last and fourth round of Muni service increases this month that will include Monday through Friday service on the 28R-19th Avenue from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The route as it currently is only runs in the morning and late afternoon when nearby schools let out students. During midday hours, the transit agency will increase the frequency from 12 minutes to every 10 minutes.
There will also be a route alignment change, where the 28R will now terminate at California and Sixth Avenue. The transit agency said this the change would give Inner Richmond residents a direct connection to the Balboa Park BART Station, which the 28R will now serve. The route will no longer stop at the Daly City BART station, but local 28 service will continue to serve the station. Service into the Marina will discontinue.
Two new Owl routes will launch on the 44-O’Shaughnessy and 48-Quintara/24th Street routes. The Owl service on the 44 will cover the Hunter’s Point, Bayview, Silver Terrace and Glen Park neighborhoods and run every 30 minutes. The 48 Owl service will cover the Dogpatch, Potrero and Mission neighborhoods. It will also run every 30 minutes.
The transit agency is also improving late-night frequency on the 6-Parnassus and 7-Haight/Noriega routes from running every 30 minutes to 20 minutes. The lack of transit options has been a common complaint from transit riders who work late at night.
Train service on the Muni Metro will start arriving every 10 minutes on Saturday and every 12 minutes on Sunday.
Muni’s E-Embarcadero, which launched last year only as a weekend service, will now have weekday service from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The changes the transit agency has been making is part of the Muni Forward program, the SFMTA’s comprehensive plan to overhaul the entire Muni system. The changes put the forth by the transit agency have been the most significant changes in decades, said Rose:
“This systematic approach to Muni service will continue to help people get around safer, more reliably and faster.”
Source: SFMTA
Jerold serves as a reporter and San Francisco Bureau Chief for SFBay covering transportation and occasionally City Hall and the Mayor's Office in San Francisco. His work on transportation has been recognized by the San Francisco Press Club. Born and raised in San Francisco, he graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in journalism. Jerold previously wrote for the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit, noncommercial news organization. When not reporting, you can find Jerold taking Muni to check out new places to eat in the city.
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Hey San Francisco. Your city Streets are starting to resemble those in North Korea and Communist China. Aside from your streets being poorly maintained they are now blanketed in Communist Red Paint. Your entire transit system is run by a totalitarian government that uses the infrastructure to both profit and prey on citizens.
In 1999 voter passed Prop E, a Muni reform measure that Muni must meet an on-time performance goal of 85 percent by July 1, 2004. So how many times has Muni met the 85 percent required on-time performance mandate in the decade since the 2004 deadline? That would be zero. Whats has the SFMTA done since 1999? For starters they increased their spending from $350 Million to over a Billion dollars a year! Next, they increased our property taxes and our rents by passing a half dozen transportation bonds, then they inflated MUNI’s on time performance figures and paid themselves bonuses.
San Francisco’s public streets are restricted to certain uses, where (Communist Red) transit only and bicycles are
designated by senior government officials. The third lane is for average citizens who are not permitted to change lanes nor drive faster than 5 mph. Your city government has installed Forward facing cameras on public
buses to enforce the Communist Red Transit Only lanes under the Transit Only Lane Enforcement (TOLE) Program
Your Automobile transportation is further restricted by a series of regulations and laws that now ban them from various streets and public spaces including Market Street and Twin Peaks. The official “Transit First” propaganda
from the SFMTA either lies by omission, or selectively presents facts to further the “state sponsored” agenda that has been approved by your supreme leader.
“Muni Forward” is the same MUNI with a 20 Million dollar adjective and new PR campaign. At the end of the day MUNI is still chronically late, overcrowded, filthy, dangerous, and mismanaged.
28R-19th Avenue Rapid will benefits people that always complaining about time issue
The 18-46th Avenue OB Route between Sunset and Sloat dont seem to at the best design (Traffic stuck)…but it has been corrected. 18-46th Avenue has 4 drivers in routes too