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Article #34Re: First Work Day Ridership
From: ctrabs74
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:00
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[cross-posted from phl.transportation; hoping someone at ba.transportation can help me fill in the gaps....] In article <smiths-ya02408000R2007981418090001@netnews.upenn.edu>, smiths@pobox.upenn.edu (Exile on Market Street) wrote: > In article <slrn6qvd54.d3k.hillary@access.netaxs.com>, hillary@hillary.net > (hillary gorman) wrote: > > > I lived in the SF Bay area (Berkeley and San Francisco) for 8 years. Their > > Muni and BART system was a JOY to ride. It was fast, reliable, affordable, > > and convenient, and after my car died I didn't miss it at all.... [snip BART info, since this reply relates to Muni - ok?] > Muni, so I'm told, has a serious > problem with vehicle cleanliness, particularly on the routes not favored by > visitors, and other maintenance stuff, but hey... Well, MUNI is in the process of retiring it's Boeing fleet in favor of new Bread LRVs. The low floor models are similar to the MBTA Type 8 fleets now being delivered to Boston. Some residents have complained about the noise problems on the Breda cars, however, IIRC, Muni has made modifications to the cars, reducing the noise problems. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105cef,5db348a972489d96 X-Google-Attributes: gid105cef,public X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,c86ec1e835f9f8c0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public From: ctrabs74@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: First Work Day Ridership Date: 1998/07/21 Message-ID: <6p2ie6$sfk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 373536620 References: <byrd-1407980734030001@mscfadm6.med.upenn.edu> <6ofj7u$i9n$1@netnews.upenn.edu> <byrd-1407981202400001@mscfadm6.med.upenn.edu> <35ABFEEE.993385AC@ix.netcom.com> <byrd-1507980650070001@mscfadm6.med.upenn.edu> <35AD1D01.2FD45546@ix.netcom.com> <slrn6qvd54.d3k.hillary@access.netaxs.com> <smiths-ya02408000R2007981418090001@netnews.upenn.edu> Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jul 21 17:16:54 1998 GMT Newsgroups: phl.transportation,ba.transportation X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.03 [en] (Win95; I)