Muni Removes Seats From Buses Over Safety Concerns

Some seats on Muni buses are hazardous to your health.

San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency is telling passengers to avoid 1,434 seats on its bus fleet, two seats each on of 717 buses, for "safety reasons" after receiving a warning from bus-builder New Flyer, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

The trouble seats are conjoined fold-up seats that, on other buses, have led passengers to be "ejected from these forward facing seats" and suffer "quadriplegic injuries" on at least three occasions, according to transit officials.

In San Francisco, the seats are now locked up, with warning stickers telling passengers not to sit there, according to the newspaper.

But that still hasn't stopped passengers from sitting on the locked-up seats, the paper reports.

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