Isn't it good that we Muni passengers have the chance to commend Muni operators who help us in a special way?  Today I made it the 1/2 mile to West Portal, something that was easy before I had a torn meniscus, and then I took the streetcar to Church and the #22 to Mission Bay for an appointment with Kaiser.  But going back I wasn't sure where to wait for the bus, so I approached the driver of the #22 bus, who opened the door and confirmed that his was the bus I needed, but the bus stop was across the street.  "Since the door's already open, you can get on," he said--saving me more walking and the certainty that I'd miss his bus if I cross the street walking.  

This was driver 6977 on bus 5732.  So I called 3-1-1 to let them know how he had helped me, and someone took the report, which he said would be read at a Muni meeting.

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 After making brief public comment on the elevator at Hallidie Plaza at the meeting of the Capital Planning Committee this past Monday, I took the #5 Fulton and the #28 Daly City bus to SFSU, where President Lynn Mahoney had agreed to "bargain" with student representatives from the 60-tent Pro-Palestinian encampment there on campus. 

It was as if she'd read and respected what David French wrote in an opinion piece April 28th in the NYTimes:

In my experience as a litigator, campus chaos is frequently the result of a specific campus culture. Administrators and faculty members will often abandon any pretense of institutional neutrality and either cooperate with their most intense activist students or impose double standards that grant favored constituencies extraordinary privileges. For many administrators, the very idea of neutrality is repugnant. It represents a form of complicity in injustice that they simply can’t and won’t stomach. So they nurture and support one side. They scorn the opposition, adopting a de facto posture that says, “To my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

Here's what Nanette Asimov wrote up--exactly what I experienced.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/sf-state-gaza-protests-meeting-19441856.php

It wasn't empty rhetoric.  She soke of revising their investment policy so that they can add to their "socially responsible" investing (to avoid investments in regions engaged in war), creating a website making endowments much more transparent, and creating a proposal to present to trustees.