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Eugenia Chien has been eavesdropping on the 47, 49, or 1 lines since the mid-90's. She lives by the adage, "Anything can happen on Muni" (and also, "That's not water.")

Your Muni Stories = SF Weekly’s Best Public Transit Blog!

September 3, 2011 eugenia 6 comments

Muni Diaries was just voted San Francisco’s Best Public Transit Blog by readers and judges in the SF Weekly Web Awards! We are beyond excited about our win. And congrats to nominees Streetsblog SF, N Judah Chronicles, and Akit’s Complaint Department — we can’t do without the public transit coverage of these excellent blogs.

But really, it’s your Muni stories that won the award, so the honor really belongs to everyone who has ever contributed a story or photo, commented, or read about San Francisco’s life on public transportation.

So here is a big thank you from the Muni Diaries crew!

Category: News Tags: announcement

Weekend Photos: The People on the Bus

September 2, 2011 eugenia Leave a comment

Photo by tweetsweet

So the big Muni news this week is that Muni is even less on time than you thought. In other shocking news, people who love wearing neon faux fur hot shorts are out camping in a desert somewhere.

So this weekend, I encourage you to go to restaurants where you previously couldn’t get a reservation and bars that would have been three-deep a week ago. Because after Monday, we’re back to business as usual again.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend! We have a very exciting event announcement for you next week, so stay tuned!

Photo by mikedthorn

Photo by davitydave

Photo by Noodles and Beef

Photo by Susan Sharpless Smith

Category: diaries

Photo Diary: Muni Rebels

August 31, 2011 eugenia One comment

These Muni metro rebels were captured on Instagram by Kiki Spaulding (loverlykiki). We’ve seen this stunt done in the day time too, in this cyclist’s fare evasion, McGuyver style.

Looks dangerous…and maybe I shouldn’t be saying this, but kind of fun.*

Have you snapped cool shots of Muni with Instagram? Make sure you tag it Muni so I can find it. Or email it to us! Our inbox is always hungry.

*Just day dreaming! Kids and adults, don’t take any encouragements about anything from me!

Category: diaries, Photos

Death Metal! Animosity on Muni!

August 30, 2011 eugenia One comment

Turn the volume down if you’re at work, but there is death metal on Muni! Watch the band Animosity take over an LRV (the N, I think?) and the passengers are just like, “No big deal.” There’s a bad-ass stuffed animal in the video too.

via @boxdogbikes

Category: diaries, Funny: Muni LOLs Tags: video

David Chiu vs Volunteers in Transit Race (w/results)

August 30, 2011 eugenia 3 comments

Update (10:05 a.m.): And the results are in, per @DavidChiu:

Final #SFTransitRace order: 1) David, Bicycle, 10min | 2) Cab-$8 21min | 3) Car-$10 parking 22min 4) Underground #Muni 25min | 5) Streetcar 30min 6) Walking 35 minutes.#SFMayor

Muni, fourth place? Ah, we’ll take it. At least we beat … walking.

Original post: Mayoral candidate David Chiu is set to race four of his volunteers and his campaign mascot “Chiubacca” this morning at 9 a.m. to see what’s fastest: bike, underground Muni, street car Muni, taxi, or walking. The press release said that the race starts at the Polk steps of City Hall and ends at the Ferry Building. Chiu will be on his bicycle, but it wasn’t clear whether Chiubacca will be taking Muni, so if you’re on transit and you spot the furry political beast, tweet at us and let us know.

The campaign staff says that Chiu is a regular cyclist, but even if he weren’t, it’s pretty obvious who’s going to win this race, right? Unless Chiubacca decides to get on a motorcycle, Chiu’s probably going to be waiting at the Ferry Building for the Muni-taking volunteers.

Category: News

Before and After Muni Sightings with OldSF

August 29, 2011 eugenia 4 comments

Jeff and I fell down the OldSF.org rabbit hole again and found some photos of Muni in the old days. The photo of Cala Foods above is the site of an old cable car barn near California and Hyde. We found a lot more before and after photos where Muni makes a cameo. A closeup of the old building on California and Hyde: