SFist: Hey, Here's Some Vaguely Interesting Filler that we can Post During the Weekend

wsanders

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:02:25 -0800

MUNI is confident that, by 2016, there is a 50-50 chance the Castro Halloween issue will have been resolved. My prediction - all this Halloween excess is a pretty recent thing, really. I don't recall grownups getting serious about Halloween until the 80's. By 2016 I predict that the Halloween fad will have passed, and Sukkot will be the mass drunken debauch of the fall season.

junk

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:13:13 -0800

that's funny- they forgot to list the impact to Muni of closing the Castro for Halloween. Oh yeah, Halloween isn't happening this year. . .

zippy_monster

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:10:01 -0800

Amusing tidbit. The federal gov expects transit agencies to use buses procured with federal money to be in service for twelve years. Muni expects procurement to take two years, and budgets a fourteen year life expectancy for the diesel buses (18 and 20 years respectively for the electric ones). Like those new hybrids? The last buses we bought form them (those thirty footers) were costing us $25,000/vehicle because the frames were cracking (this was as of 2005). Or how about the $15 million budgeted to fix safety problems with the Breda LRVs (almost $2.5 mil was budgeted to avoid trapping people in the doors... oops)?