Muni is tinkering with the routes to “serve the greatest number” in the most eficeint way.

I can’t figure where this fits in that goal, but this came out today. We, by that I mean people in the neighborhood were able to stop the cancellation of the bus. The old new proposal was to not go to Forest Hill station. This would have effectively cut off public transit to Tower Market and West Portal.

The new propsed route in Miraloma Park  will take the 36 on it’s usual route up Forester and Teresita till it gets to the intersection of Marrietta, Bella Vista and Teresita where it will turn left onto Bella Vista and squeeze through to Molimo. On Molimo it will try to make a very hard right turn and climb the steep hill to Myra where it will head down hill to Reposa. After Reposa it will turn left onto Teresita and be on it’s way to Forest Hill Station. On the reverse route it will run the same route in the opposite direction. God forbid they meet each other.

Obvioulsy no one has ever actually driven the streets because if they had they would know that they would not be able to make the turn from Bella Vista to Molimo with anything larger than a mini-van. They also could not have done any kind of traffic analysis or they would know the amount of traffic that already uses Bella Vista as the cut around Mt. Davidson. The street feeds all the traffic on the south side of the mountain from Yerba Buena along Hazelwood and Burlwood to Bella Vista. Those of us that live along it know how often we have to dive into an open spot to avoid head on collissions.

I’ve posted only a section of the route change. Here is a link to the entire map;

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/mtep/documents/proposals/rte_036.pdf

As of this eventing I’ve made a motion to the MPIC board to oppose the change on the grounds that the stree can’t bear the traffic and it cuts off all the homes on the top of the hill and the access to Mt. Davidson. When the motion passes I will get petitions out to my neighbors along the affected route and together I feel we can stop this.