As folks may remember from the great Transit Effectiveness Program (TEP) debate , which defeated MUNI recommendations to end the Upper Ashbury Hill  stops of the 6 Parnassus, changes were also proposed for the 71 Haight-Noriega line.  These changes have been adopted and are now being carried out.

Called “Travel Time Reduction Proposals” (how much does MUNI pay to devise these clever program names?)  the changes consist mainly of replacing stop signs with street lights, reducing or relocating stops and creating new “pedestrian bulbs” illustrated below.

The problem is that MUNI is not really increasing services by adding busses or replacing cuts in service (like restoring the 7 Haight line) from previous years but literally  moving the “deck chairs” ( actually, bus stops) around, “tweaking” travel time.  Indeed, MUNI seems actually disinterested in devising programs and solutions to increasing and restoring services to “transit dependent” neighborhoods such as the Haight-Ashbury which has fewer than one car per household.