{"id":1387,"date":"2009-08-07T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/07\/elsbernd-to-hold-muni-safety-hearing\/"},"modified":"2017-05-28T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:52:39","slug":"elsbernd-to-hold-muni-safety-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1387\/elsbernd-to-hold-muni-safety-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsbernd to Hold MUNI Safety Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/bos_sutros_061024\/mw2w0951_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/>\nSupervisor Sean Elsbernd<br \/>\n<strong>Photo by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From the Office of Supervisor Sean Elsbernd<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>August 7, 2009<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, August 10, the City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee will hold a hearing examining MUNI safety standards for bus and train operators. I requested the hearing with Transportation Authority Chairman Supervisor Bevan Dufty in response to the July 18 MUNI accident at West Portal Station that injured more than 40 passengers. The need for a hearing on this subject was made even more evident following the August 3 accident between two trains and an automobile on Market Street that injured six.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text of hearing request issued at July 21 Board of Supervisors meeting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Request for a hearing addressing MTA safety standards, including medical screening procedures for MTA bus and light rail operators. Request additional information about the rules concerning switching light rail vehicles between automatic and manual operation, including any communication from the Transit Workers Union to MTA related this subject.<\/p>\n<p>Ensuring the public&rsquo;s safe transport has to be MUNI&rsquo;s number one priority. As an elected official I am committed to doing whatever is in my power to protect the public. As a member of the Transportation Authority I have the duty to question the safety of a system that has had two serious accidents in little more than two weeks. I will continue to work with my colleagues on the Board of Supervisors and Transportation Authority and with MUNI officials to make sure that the causes of these accidents are investigated, the problems addressed and public safety ensured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ensuring the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe transport has to be MUNI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s number one priority. As an elected official I am committed to doing whatever is in my power to protect the public. As a member of the Transportation Authority I have the duty to question the safety of a system that has had two serious accidents in little more than two weeks. I will continue to work with my colleagues on the Board of Supervisors and Transportation Authority and with MUNI officials to make sure that the causes of these accidents are investigated, the problems addressed and public safety ensured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elsbernd to Hold MUNI Safety Hearing - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1387\/elsbernd-to-hold-muni-safety-hearing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elsbernd to Hold MUNI Safety Hearing - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ensuring the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe transport has to be MUNI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s number one priority. 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