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What If by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/06/01 (1 of 19)
Imagine what it would be like if the employees of the SFMTA systems
ran the system. Would bus and trolley performance be worse or... view more
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Accidental Benifit by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/05/14 (2 of 19)
When a car collides with a bus or a trolley, should the driver's insurance card be presented to all the passengers so they can claim lost... view more
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Translink And Credit Card Fraud by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/04/10 (3 of 19)
By assigning an individual credit card to each service on a translink card, the
risk of credit card fraud... view more
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Central Subway's Defective Assumption by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/04/02 (4 of 19)
From its inseption, the Central Subway has always presumed it would
cross Market street. But what if it didn't have... view more
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SFMTA Board Candidate by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/03/29 (5 of 19)
A suggestion for the eight qualities that would make a superb
SFMTA board... view more
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Residential Parking by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/03/07 (6 of 19)
A proposal to earn non-resident revenue off of free residential
parking... view more
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SFMTA: A Long Term Plan by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/02/25 (7 of 19)
The SFMTA board of directors is appointed by the mayor, not elected. How to revise the SFMTA board of directors to make them more responsive to the riding... view more
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MUNI $5 Fare BY 2020 by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/01/31 (8 of 19)
Without a permanent policy decision, bus and trolley fairs in San Francisco will reach $5 per ride by 2020.... view more
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Dogpile On The Pedestrian by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/01/27 (9 of 19)
Anyone who walks on San Francisco's sidewalks quickly becomes aware that the pedestrian in this city
is often relegated to the lowest face on the totem pole.
By pedestrians we include anyone who... view more
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Good For The Goose by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/01/25 (10 of 19)
Most parking meters in the city are not enforced between the hours of
6:00 p.m. and 6 a.m. which means from early evening through the following early morning.
The effect of this non-enforcement is... view more
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SFMTA Declares War On The Poor by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/01/18 (11 of 19)
The SFMTA (San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency) announced
that it intends to impose a fare increase to the F-line. It will raise the fare
from $2.00 per ride to $5.00 per ride. The... view more
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The Aerial Cone Mystery by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/01/14 (12 of 19)
All electric buses turn left onto 3rd Street off of Townsend. The only bus that continues
straight along Townsend is the 10, a diesel bus. The below photo shows that all electric
buses turn, this... view more
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MUNI Fixes A Problem by Bryan Costales
posted 2010/01/12 (13 of 19)
As mentioned in our November 25, 2009 blog
the easternmost entry to the MUNI Embarcadero and Powell Stations,
only had a single Translink entry. This was a problem
because of the arrows on the... view more
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Mystery Of The Bars by Bryan Costales
posted 2009/11/29 (14 of 19)
For the first few years of the N-Line's extension out the Embarcadero to 4th and King, bars were embedded
into both platform edges. (See the above photograph.) The idea appeared
to be for the bars... view more
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Translink Entry Is An Exit by Bryan Costales
posted 2009/11/25 (15 of 19)
At the easternmost entry to the MUNI Embarcadero and Powell Stations,
only a single Translink entry exists. This is a problem
because of the arrows on the other side:
Notice how all the arrows... view more
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MUNI Bus Ride Resembled An Earthquake by Bryan Costales
posted 2009/11/15 (16 of 19) If you have ever tried to read, write, film,
or just plain want to remain steady on a MUNI bus,
you will be dissapointed. Almost every bus route
leads those poor bus tires over pot holes, bad
street... view more
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Should MUNI be Fare Free? by Bryan Costales
posted 2009/10/22 (17 of 19) Should MUNI be Fare Free?
One Man's Opinion
The question is whether or not MUNI should be fare supported
or should be converted to become fare-free.
Rather than decide in advance that a fare-free... view more
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A Future San Francisco Subway System by Bryan Costales
posted 2009/10/11 (18 of 19)
A Future San Francisco Subway System
Here we present in diagrammatic a view of what the San Francisco subway system might
evolve into when the population of the city doubles then triples.
It is... view more
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Suggestions for the improvement of Translink by Bryan Costales
posted 2009/01/19 (19 of 19)
Suggestions for the improvement of Translink on MUNI
1.Automatically count boardings so that folks may benefit
from cheaper fares. For example, on the fifth boarding
of a... view more
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