Invasion of the stinky Muni bus snatchers!
Muni’s rollout of new buses has infected the 47-Van Ness, you guys. Ready your emergency kits. New buses (and their new-bus smell) are coming for you and your loved ones!
Via Patrick.
Author: jeff
Muni, personified, talks NextBus
Julian has a rad little illustrated comic for you. We applaud this rather accurate take on what the K-Ingleside as a human would be like. Here’s the caption:
“Let’s see. If I hand my NextBus tracker to that taxi, he can take it to the cable cars, who can put it on the actual cable for awhile before passing it on to a tour bus, which can hopefully meet up with an outbound J, which will be close but not too close … yeah I think they’ll never catch me then!”
You’ve seen Julian’s work on Muni Diaries before: In 2012, he came up with the then 100-year-old Muni system as a person. Nice work.
Via Tumblr.
Muni ad-hacking: ‘Use crab spiders’
We’d sure like to see the rest of this ad panel that Mitchell sent our way.
“If ants don’t go away, use crab spiders.”
Salient advice, yo.
Via Twitter.
Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Treasure Island, Chinatown festival, Ghiradelli festival, America’s Cup
Treasure Island Street Closure
In preparation for the Oracle Openworld annual event, the following streets are closed or inaccessible and will continue until 9 p.m., Monday, Oct. 7:
· California Avenue between Avenue “D” and the eastern edge of the Island
· Portions of Avenues “H”, “M” and “N”
The 108 Treasure Island Muni route will be affected during the street closure.
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Feeding Muni Metro tracks
Says Anna:
“Someone at the SFSU M-line stop wanted to feed muni some pizza”
The crucial question here is: Is that a pesto or white pie, or did someone scrape all the tomatoey goodness off their pizza? Kids these days …
Via Twitter.
Transit News: Bus rapid transit edition
Photo by bsii
Lots of news and posts about BRT (bus rapid transit) in San Francisco here lately. Here are some things we recommend reading up on:
- Public weighs-in on future of Geary Boulevard BRT (Sunset Beacon)
- SFCTA Board Approves Van Ness BRT Plan With an Extra Stop (Streetsblog SF)
- Waiting for BRT (SF Bay Guardian)
Bus rapid transit has the potential to positively affect some of Muni’s most seriously clogged streets. What do you think of BRT on Geary and Van Ness?