Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
I graduated from college and worked as a paper pusher for two and a half years. Now I am in graduate school at SFSU. I have night classes until 10 p.m. every Thursday and by the time I begin the cold walk to the M station I am exhausted – let’s just say having discussions about butch lesbians growing up in the midwest while having cerebral palsy and getting repeatedly raped by her father and his friends is not exactly uplifting material.
The Sunday New York Times yesterday had a great op-ed (or “op-art” as they called it) by Miranda Purves and artist Jason Logan. The pic above is a snippet of the drawings they created by spending a lot of time on buses and subways that may be cut back after an MTA vote to reduce funding. Here, Purves explains why they created the project:
Both Jason and I have always been drawn to this phenomenon of people, behaving for the most part civilly, getting from here to there, side by side. And we wanted to find some way to convey the less tangible costs of service cuts and fare hikes.
I too am drawn to the transit-riding experience for this very same reason – the phenomenon of a group of people who otherwise may never encounter one another, sitting together and having a shared experience. Next time I am on a not-so-crowded bus I will draw up a similar diagram to see what I find! (It’d be near suicide to try to draw up something like this on a packed bus like the morning 38Ls…)
Who are some regulars on your bus? (And, wanna send us your own bus art?)
This photo came to us via Jon Snyder – “First time I’ve seen breastfeeding on the J,” so here’s a photo Jon took with his iPhone.
I know people have strong feelings about breastfeeding – whether to do it, how long to breastfeed your child, and of course, is it ok to do it in public?
Update: Per the item below about SFPD’s responsibilities to Muni, SF Appeal has the dirty details.
Original post: At yesterday’s public hearing, details of Muni’s budgeting and funding got a lot of people up in arms. Now that Muni is looking at a huge deficit, it’s time to drill down to where the money goes. Apparently various city departments are charging Muni for services, to the outrage of Supervisor Bevan Dufty. Among the charges to Muni: SFPD actually bills Muni $12 million to “help fund traffic enforcement division” and provide “police services,” which leads SF Appeal to ask: “Have you ever seen SFPD on Muni?”
Hmmm. Nope, I haven’t either.
Everyone wants to take a closer look at these “work orders” from other city departments, but to balance the budget, we’re hearing talks of fare hikes again.
In other news, Tom Prete has a roundup of San Francisco’s Central Subway discussion at the SPUR forum, and if you live in the Sunset, there is a public meeting next Wednesday about repairs on the N-Judah and L-Taraval lines.
Photo by Flickr user allaboutgeorge.
Photo by Dan Pritchard via Twitter
Breaking news from SF Appeal: Truck/T-Third Collision at 3rd and 22nd.
The T-Third collided with a big rig today a little after 3 p.m. on the corner of Third and 22nd streets. The street has been reopened. Eight people required hospitalization, according to SF Appeal.
Tasha from Double Fine Productions illustrates a little Muni etiquette:
Thanks, Muni rider Jeremy K and Gabe at Double Fine!