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by Bryan Costales Candidate for SF Board of Supervisors District 6
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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