SFist: Behind the Scenes at Muni During Outside Lands

sagitta100

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:37:53 -0800

As usual, there were also some badly behaved cyclists at Outside Lands. Perhaps the Bicycle Coalition could do some rider education for Outside Lands next year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv3ZLj2qvWw

iris

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:02:37 -0800

@ sbaker: And if you don't beat the bus or street car by walking, you usually only lose a few minutes.

sbaker

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:21:28 -0800

Hmm. I wasn't there, but really, the 45 minute wait time to get on the bus seems like enough to WALK all the way to downtown. I've often found myself walking along a muni route as I hate to wait. Sometimes you get where you're going before the bus does. And another thing: who is paying for all that Muni overtime and use of the buses? I hope it's the organizers of this apparently for-profit entertainment event. The tickets were very expensive, and all the acts were the type that appeal to your college educated white folks. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I don't want to pay for it).

fsharp

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:38:10 -0800

Probably the biggest f*ckup was that the festival, in all of their PRE-festival directions, told us all to take the N to the show on Friday. I should have known that Muni couldn't possibly have enough trains to handle the crowd. But it sounded so convenient! I believe that *at least* 100k people showed up or tied to get in on Friday, overwhelming everything including toilets, Muni, beer, IDs, food, escape routes etc. Also, Mattymatt, you rock.

manys

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:35:54 -0800

er, "...MTA's Bicycle Program"

manys

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:35:29 -0800

Does this mean we can just get rid of MUNI's "Bicycle Program" and just hire SFBC for everything like this? I mean, what are they there for, meeting once a month for lunch at Kokkari?

travin

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:09:31 -0800

So what are your thoughts, now that we know how Muni did their best to cope with a gigantic crowd? Even this little bitty window on the inner-workings leaves me with the same impression that I previously expressed: their efforts were terribly inefficient, ill-informed, poorly communicated and largely a waste of time, energy and expense. I would still like to see real numbers: ridership in ratio to actual capacity and gross expenditures.

mattymatt

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:04:46 -0800

Here are some of the bike-positive posts that I've written. http://sfist.com/2007/05/25/zombies_bikes_f.php http://sfist.com/2007/05/07/youve_tangled_with_the_wrong_bike_rodeo_this_time.php http://sfist.com/2006/12/05/and_now_for_some_bikes.php http://sfist.com/2007/06/04/and_theyre_off_1.php

MHTH

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:48:39 -0800

Unheard of, a positive comment about cycling from mattymatt?!?! Not to worry, you can now go back to bitching about cyclists as tonight is Critical Mass.