January 16, 2008
Ask a Muni Security Guy
It's the new year so it's a new Ask a Muni Security Guy question. This one was inspired by seeing some lady eat chinese food on BART while also reading a magazine....
How do you handle food on MUNI? Technically it's not allowed but everyone kind of does it.
It's basically ignored. We've had good luck with cooperation for the most part. We tell the staff to let the patron know to put it away until after they get out, for safety and sanitary purposes and advise (that) the patron "may be" cited (but they are) generally not. We learned long ago, the courts dismissed these citations right away.
It may change once the DPT hearing process is in full swing - MAYBE.
DPT is supposed to start taking over the ajudication of our citations. DPT's hearing office is on 11th at Howard and will be moved to 11 South Van Ness - if not already there (it's been under construction for awhile).
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the worst is those seats/floors covered with sunflower seeds and the self-satisfied morons who spit them all over the place. no need for a fine, just a good tasering.
"It's basically ignored."
This pretty much sums up SF with the exception of parking tickets.
It's not the food that bothers me as much as the Carl's Jr. bags/wrappers/grease-soaked-waxpapers that get tossed on the floor.
The people eating buckets o' chicken and fries are usually taking up one seat per butt cheek. Site them for that too.
They'll be dead soon from heart disease.
BART police don't mess around. I've seen them write tickets...
the joke being that there's a reason for said rules. everyone THINKS they can juggle their big mega-grande coffee on the bus, sans lid ,but it ends up becoming a sugary PSA on NBC with Markisa Hargitay: MUNI Rules On Drinks: They're There Because We Care....
oh well, I guess we're in the era of shock (schlock?) therapy..
Reminds me of the time I was on the 48, and there was a guy eating a mango with a hunting knife, throwing scraps of it all over the back of the bus. He also had a giant bag of garbage with him.
Sunflower seeds should be banned from all of SF. Singapore did it with chewing gum, we can do it here.
This is a weird paradox. I lived in SF for 6 years up until last June when I moved to New York. In NYC food and beverages are actually allowed in the subways, and yet, the litter that is left behind is not nearly as bad as the MUNI cars in SF.
I'm more (often) bothered by the way some people on transit smell. When will something be done about that?