Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Get a head start on your Christmas shopping with us. Our super cute Clipper Card wallets, made from real paper Fast Passes of yore, are on sale at the Muni Diaries Etsy store! We’ve updated the store with new wallets, and also put our commemorative Muni Diaries Clipper Card holder on sale for you too.
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Love it or hate it, you came up with some hilarious pet names for your Muni line at our Rename Your Muni Line game last Friday! Inspired by round one of nicknaming your Muni line, we put up a big map at Harvey Milk Photo Center and let you guys go to town. “The Forty Late”? Or the “71-‘Let’s Scare Tourists’? Here are some more nick names you pinned on the map.
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Come hang out with us tonight at Harvey Milk Photo Center to celebrate beautiful Muni photos and play a game of “Rename Your Muni Line”! We’re giving away some super adorable viewfinders and beautiful calendars from the good folks at Market Street Railway for the first 35 people who come up with a clever moniker.
To add to the only-in-San Francisco vibe, the Tamale Lady and the Civic Center accordion player Robert V. Doerr Jr. and his dog, Ginger, will be there!
If this is not reason enough:
Photo by ohheygreat
In Transit: San Francisco’s Daily Commute in Words and Pictures
Tonight: Friday, Nov. 30, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Harvey Milk Photo Center
50 Scott Street (Duboce Park)
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Photo by Lydia Chow
Found a cute date report on Twitter the other day:
Best date ever, picked me up on time, opened the door for me, said hi and, thank you, was gorgeous! #munidiaries #driver8035
— AME HARAFAWKINJUKU (@TWITTAJUKU) November 30, 2012
Awww. That’s actually better than my OKCupid dates.
p.s. Let’s not talk about that time when the date slams the door on you before you even get on and drives away.
p.p.s. More swoon-worthy posts this way in our “Aww” section. Have you seen them?
Photo by David Gallagher
This Muni On-Time rebate program card refunds passengers if the bus is late for 15 minutes or more. Mind blown yet?
But of course, this was from 1993 and is no longer in effect (surprise!). What was this rebate program? According to a document from SFMTA:
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Photo by Jamison Wieser
Reader “A.F.” (real name withheld) sent us this disturbing account of being groped on Muni.
This morning, I was zoning out on the N train, when I realized that the guy in front of me was groping my crotch. His fingers were moving up and down in a way that didn’t seem accidental (though it might have been, I’m still not entirely sure, as it was a crowded train). I blurted out: “you just groped me.” Reaction? Complete silence, from him, and from the rest of the train. He got out at the next stop.
There are plenty of articles and unofficial polls about how frequently this happens. There’s no way to prove it, but I wanted to say or do something. Does anyone know if there are any official statistics collected on this issue? I was surprised that Muni’s website had no information on this topic.
What would you do? Or if you were on the train, watching?
The Bay Citizen reported earlier this year that sexual assault on public transportation is vastly under-reported. And sadly, A.F.’s account is one of many reports that we’ve received from readers about being groped on public transit.
Would you report this to the police if it happened to you? What do you think bystanders should do?