it doesn’t make sense to me that those who don’t use a bus route would have a voice in its future, or lack thereof. when you have no vested interest in a controversy, sometimes it’s time to just shut your fuckin’ pie-hole.

You’ve never even been on a bus, I’d guess.

Well, let them have cake!!

God the people here are so callous. Wait till you get sick and old, just you freakin wait. Your won’t be so bitchin’ then.

the reason the 26 Valencia is being eliminated is because it’s always been starved of support/buses. before nextbus.com started tracking the buses on the line, apparently a lot of drivers got away with not showing up. without nextbus.com, you couldn’t tell when it was going to arrive. of course, with the old regime, why bother having the line. with some oversight, it was starting to get real increases in ridership. I’ve come to rely on it for the majority of my errands.

I don’t know why it couldn’t be truncated to just those streets that are not otherwise served.

what doesn’t the 14 cover? plenty. Valencia St. for one, then the area around Market and Gough.

For all you healthy kids – which is what you sound like – easy for you to walk. nice you enjoy it.

but when I ride the 26 during the day, it’s often full-up, with seniors, moms with little kids, disabled people, and kids from elementary/junior high school. I don’t see hardly any noe valley hipsters – really, admit it, noe valley is your comfort zone, but outside your budget – so what would you know about it? Go make some snide comments about something else you know nothing about.

On a map, it looks like the 14 mission will carry over, but obviously none of you have tried the little walk, more like a hike – on long blocks with no clear route to Market/Gough – you’d have to cross two streets that are basically highways, Mission and Otis – get off at Mission and Division and see how easy it es to get to Market and Gough. The 14 is totally inadequate if your not a strapping young person.

none of the deciders have walked up the hill from mission to church to another supposed alternative, the j line. looks so close and easy on a map, doesn’t it? well, it’s not and it’s not an adequate substitute route for seniors and disabled folks.

and is the 14 going to run any more buses on the line to make up for the 26? is it going to be as safe and non-nasty? No, of course not.

RIP Valencia bus – nobody cares about the poor, kids, moms, old and disabled people anyway.

So about 2 people out of the 1.5 million who live and work in the city will be inconvenienced by canceling the 26? That sounds about right.

Your handicapped coworkers/clients should look into either getting a monthly Muni pass, which allows them to ride BART within the city for free, or using the luxurious paratransit service, which gives them free cab rides in exchange for leaving the 26 to be put out of its misery.

I’ll admit, it is a largely redundant bus, though infinitely better than the 14 or the J, which the J is almost as bad as the 26. Extending the J around to State is a hideously bad idea. It’s infrequent enough, and often late as it is. The J is practically the 26′s twin sister in it’s inability to maintain it’s schedule and makes so many stops it’s slower than molasses in January.

If they remove the 26, they need to compensate by making the J more frequent than it is. The J doesn’t cover the exact same areas as the 26, but for the San Jose to Mission runs, for those of us who would need to get to the 14 or 49 if the 26 were removed especially since the 36 won’t cover the areas south of Chenery that the 26 used to, the J needs to be made a more reliable train line.

I’m far more upset that TEP is trying to reroute the M. Instead of going to Balboa Park they want to make it stop at SF State and send the J to fill in the rest. Aside from the BART station being a natural point for the lines to end this makes going to West Portal a pain in the ass and means that going downtown now requires a much, much longer ride through the entire line of the J which, unlike the M, is almost entirely above-ground.

While the TEP has some good ideas the greater problem is that the city really, seriously, needs to be subway-oriented. Buses and streetcars just contribute to the traffic and fail to solve our problems. We’re a small, but very dense city with horrible street traffic. Subways are really the only appropriate solution in that sort of scenario. Buses should be reserved for short, local trips only.