No Accountability From Muni
This payout is not all that surprising, but neither is the fact that Muni workers rarely, if ever, get disciplined for injuring people. I’m all for workers’ rights, but we can’t have operators of very large machines bringing destruction and sometimes death to the people (and visitors) of San Francisco without some accountability. Who is in charge? Is anybody in charge?
We posted last month about the same topic. What is the procedure for Muni operators who injure or kill riders or others?
We still need a transit watchdog group in San Francisco. Maybe it already exists and I just don’t know about it? There are groups that can advocate for sensible transit and that’s fine - but we need a real watchdog group for transit - a group that is not afraid to mix it up with the City. The SFBC plays some of that roll for the bike community, and it works. If and when a bicyclist is injured or killed, the SFBC is going to talk to the City to figure out what happened and try to make sure it never happens again. The SFBC will attend the boring meetings, they’ll call the Supervisors, they’ll propose specific safety measures, and most importantly - they’ll follow-up on them, and they’ll continue bugging the City until a situation is adequately addressed - that can be days, weeks, months, years. The SFBC is relentless, as they should be, because that is what is required all too often.
The lack of a transit watchdog group here in San Francico - and around the U.S. - is hurting us - sometimes literally. Muni has left its top safety position unfilled for six months, now. This is only possible because there is no organized effort to force them to get their act together.
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