Disability Perspective: Bart and MUNI

Though MUNI and BART officials, and even some on the 2nd floor at City Hall, are long-familiar with the bias they regularly show in a contract up for approval this Tuesday, maybe this new audience of Beyond Chron can get the attention of so many officials who stick their heads in the sand.

Since early in the 1980s, MUNI gave up on buying and staffing enough busses to serve the Mission corridor's potential passenger load. Instead, they came up with the idea of contracting with BART to accept Adult [only] Fast Passes for riding BART solely within SF--the theory being that BART's San Francisco route closely-enough paralleled the Mission corridor that BART's excess capacity could handle the influx of MUNI passengers. Certainly, a creative service approach; BUT, both BART and MUNI have been ducking ever since how this discriminates against those who use the Youth, the Senior, or the Disabled MUNI Fast Passes.

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