A Muni transfer from the year I was born
Get your “awwwwwww” muscles relaxed and ready, you guys:
“Found a rare preserved #sfmuni transfer from the year I was born, inside a book”
Frame that sucker, Franko!
Via @YungPeng
Author: jeff
Alternate Reality: Gorgeous N-Judah Ride
Sure to become a classic, filmmakers Rebecca Richardson and James O’Malley imagined a different universe than the one we inhabit. Good on them for that.
Here’s what Richardson had to say about it (via SF Weekly):
We wanted to show day-to-day travel in a glamorous light, and to inspire people to actively see the beauty and magic in things they would never have considered as interesting. The Muni, and the N Judah line in particular, is something that is regularly dismissed and treated with disdain. But we think it’s interesting: for $2, you can see the whole city, from Bay to Breakers, on a schedule that’s all of its own making.
Read more
Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Giants games, concerts, Muni Metro work, Komen walk
Baseball Game Traffic Reroutes
The San Francisco Giants will play three home games against the Miami Marlins at AT&T Park this weekend: 7:15 p.m., Friday; 1:05 p.m., Saturday and 1:05 p.m., Sunday.
The SFMTA advises motorists of the increased congestion in San Francisco and advises commuters to use transit and avoid using the Bay Bridge on these dates.
For details about transit service to AT&T Park, including connections from Bay Area transit systems to Muni can be found at www.sfmta.com. Regional transit information for BART, Caltrain and the ferries as well as traffic is available at www.511.org.
Read more
Muni bus on car crash near, in Panhandle (update)
Photo by @LeezyBreeze
Update (Friday, 8:43 a.m.): KTVU and SF Weekly reports that a passenger on the bus helped stop it after it had dragged the car for some time.
KTVU tracked down the “cool-headed” passenger, Frank Primus, who was sitting in the rear of the runaway bus. Primus says when he realized the bus wasn’t actually stopping after hitting the Jetta, he dashed up to the driver seat, and put his foot on the brake.
“I realized we were headed toward Fell and the bus wasn’t stopping, the guy wasn’t stopping the bus,” Primus told KTVU.
Cyclists were jumping out of the path of the moving bus, which barely dodged oncoming traffic.
Muni Epidemic: Seat Jerks
Muni Seat Jerks come in two flavors: 1) Those who hog more than their allotted one seat; 2) Those able-bodied passengers who refuse to give their seats up for the elderly and disabled.
@angrysalesgirl pays homage to the latter (photo above):
“C’mon, this again? Someone let the lady sit.”
Seat hogs must be the top of the list in the Five People You Hate on Muni. If even Jerry Brown can’t get a seat on BART, what about the rest of us?
On Muni: The new “For a good time call”
Or, as holliseagle puts it, “The new way to advertise yourself and get followers on twitter.”