SFist: UPDATE: Muni Comes to a Halt After West Portal Tunnel Assault

boyziggy

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:21:16 -0800

Does this idiot get to keep his car? It should be confiscated and given away to the Muni employee of the month.

zippy_monster

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:16:04 -0800

What the fuck? TWO AYE EM? The tunnel was still closed at ~10a this morning. As usual MUNI did a piss poor job of handling the situation (e.g. no shuttle buses, station agents spouting off WRONG information, idiot train drivers refusing to offload passengers, etc, etc).

manys

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:30:23 -0800

Can't they just yank the damn thing out and get the trains rolling? They don't have to spank the driver in situ, they can give him his Louima behind the ticket booth. OH, BUT HE MIGHT BE A TERRORIST, BETTER CHECK EVERYTHING OUT FOR AN HOUR OR TWO. Jeez, just get the trains rolling. I doubt taking down one or two MUNI lines occupies the top of Al Qaeda's to-do list. Ha ha, on top of that take a peek at Terry McSweeney's write up of the April event at the ABC site. My 8 year old niece writes better than this: "A little bit before 2:00 am this morning, a car entered the West Portal Muni tunnel. It is a tunnel that is used just for trains. Luckily the rail line doesn't run in the middle of the night. Police say the man tried to run away, but they caught him. The suspect's Nissan Maxima was towed out of the tunnel." I nominate him/her for whatever the journamalism award is in that other thread.

Xenu

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:01:06 -0800

Forget taking away her driver's license -- this sort of stupidity calls for euthanasia.

wsanders

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:05:31 -0800

Severe tire damage? I noticed my car was hard to steer! And it wasn't just the dead pedestrians jammed in the mechanism!

The Angry Young Man

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:55:48 -0800

Anyone stupid enough to drive into a Muni tunnel needs to be rounded up and their driver license confiscated for eternity. Clearly they are roadway menaces.

Plug1

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:55:22 -0800

i saw Coit Tower having sex with the Broadway Tunnel once.

jimH

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:54:24 -0800

The Prius in question went into the West Portal of the _Sunset_ Tunnel. Today's Prius driver (just guessing) drove in the West Portal of the Twin Peaks Tunnel in West Portal.

jnice

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:46:57 -0800

I plan on cruising under twin peaks in a hovercraft. Who's with me?

Akit

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:35:48 -0800

Funny, the driver didn't notice the "severe tire damage" notice at the tunnel entrance.

mariconsoy

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:15:48 -0800

The entrance of the tunnel has those big metal spikes that shred rubber. I doubt that he got far- maybe to forest hill if that?

Greg

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:00:49 -0800

It's so funny how Muni's own TroubleAlert never tells you about these when they happen - only when they clear 'em up. I just wonder how stupid one has to be to get a driver's license these days. I mean, what MORON would drive into the West Portal tunnel? There's untold ways that tunnel says "don't drive in here, moron!"

Ciaran

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:56:22 -0800

And don't forget the guy who drove his prius into the N Judah tunnel a while ago.