October 31, 2007
And So It Begins...
Barricades have gone up, drag queens are slapping on the greasepaint and Cover Girl cosmetics, and your BART and Muni closures / re-routings start soon.
With that said, this has been somewhat of...a mess. What with the fallout over whether or not to close BART at 16th and Mission, how the closure was executed (e.g., an important elected District 9 BART Director left in the dark), and if it's the right thing to do, we'll ask you: Are there any good reasons to do these kinds of closures in the future? Are any reasons legitimate?
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This line cracks me up: "an important elected District 9 BART Director ".
Why close metro and BART stations when it will still bring the crowds? It's called walking people!
As Han Solo would say, "I got a bad feeling about this." Since I live off of 17th, I'm locking the doors, manning the barricades, and going into hiding-- this has all the makings of one major league f--- up.
City Hall must be staffed full of sissies to come up with something as cowardly as "Home for Halloween". WTF? That's the sort of bolt-the-doors-and-hide-in-the-closet bullshit I'd expect from the Concerned Mothers Club of Provo.
Sigh... it's going to be a roll of the dice when it goes dark tonight.
Come on seven! Baby needs a new Mayor!
i don't really understand what they are trying to accomplish with the closure. if muni is running surface shuttles anyway than what difference does it make other than being more pain-in-the-butt than usual to get around? is it really much of a deterrent?
If they had balls they would have suspended all cross bay traffic, closed the bridges, shut down the freeways and turned all the lights out in the city. Shhh! the bridge and bridgers will hear us! Like in high school when there was the rumour of a massive rager and when you got there the street was dead and there was no party to be found. So you just went to the nearest bus stop and drank your cider there, in the rain, with your crappy friends, alone. That's what happened before cell phones and Facebook, kids!
Well I don't understand why people think that the alternative to the Castro Halloween is some sort of Riot / escape from SF situation.
I'm kinda enjoying the multiple posts about this. But I imagine a few hundred will show up, look around, then drift away. Remember, they're going to be comparing to the 200k who were there last year.
I may as well be back in my hillbilly hometown, where Halloween is pretty much always canceled "coz thet's the devil's night."
*sigh* same reaction, different reasons.
FYI: Free Muni on the 14 and 49. Woo hoo... Go mobile with castro party and bing it up, down and up and down the Mission.
"BART and MUNI are working together to provide free MUNI bus rides between the 16th St./Mission and 24th St./Mission stations following the 8 p.m. closure of the 16th St./Mission Station on Halloween, October 31, 2007. BART will also provide free paratransit rides for disabled and mobility impaired passengers between the two stations.
All you need to do is to show your BART ticket to a MUNI bus driver to take advantage of the free rides between 16th St./Mission and 24th St./Mission stations. The rides will be free just on MUNI’s #14 Mission bus and #49 Mission/Van Ness bus after 8 p.m. and only between the two BART stations."
So while BART is screwing people who use 16th Street, MUNI is screwing the entire southwest of the City and is setting itself up for a mess...
BART is using the East Berlin model, which worked for four decades, where subway trains ran under East Berlin, from the West to the West through stations that had been sealed to keep people from the East from getting in. That's what's happening at 16th Street- trains pass but don't stop.
Now let's try MUNI's logic. Don't run trains underground, where they will be un-affected by WHATEVER happens on the surface. Instead, FORCE people off the "safe" subway and onto buses that will run in the unpredictable mess that might happen on the surface. What's the benefit? Why not just close access to the stations like BART?
If a mob happens on Market in the Castro, what happens to the poor schlums who were forced from their trains in the safe subway, up to the surface, waited for a crowded bus, then driven into the middle of a mob?
Or, the City could just grow up......Happy Halloween!
Ugh, they spelled canceled wrong.
Ha, ha, ha, maybe they should have stayed home last night and done some proofreading. Ha, ha, ha.