In case you didn’t tune into today’s Board of Supervisor’s Budget & Finance Committee meeting on SFGTV, which isn’t as boring as it might sound, committee reviewed the pending contract to restore 16 additional historic PCC streetcars.
After some questions, including the safety of the historic streetcars to which MTA’s Judson True stressed that none of the recent accidents appeared to be caused by mechanical problems, the committee unanimously recommended approval of this contract to the full Board of Supervisors (San Francisco’s city council) at next Tuesday’s meeting.
I won’t rehash how important this contract is to keep the F-Market & Wharves line running, but the ever growing number of bus substitutions are not popular with either the tourists or locals who’d rather wait for a streetcar than take a bus. Nobody benefits from running empty buses and too few (and way overcrowded) streetcars.
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