Furry People on BART
Author: jeff
BART etiquette cops coming soon
Photo by presta
Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Starting next week, BART will be able to ban unsavory passengers. SFist has the story:
Thanks to a policy passed by the BART board last year, anyone caught defacing a building, taking a dump on the train or harassing passengers and station agents can be banned from the system for up to a year.
Go to SFist for the full story.
What do you think of this new policy? Long past due? Ripe for abuse?
Well, he’s no Kim Cattrall in Mannequin
Nothing to see here. Just a giant Ken doll with a purple mohawk and baseball player facial hair with his human on Muni. Strange Cargo on Muni Week continues …
Via hiiidaaayyy: “This would be weird if it wasn’t San Francisco.” Yep.
Is this what everyone is protesting?
Muni: How a recycling bin gets from Point A to Point B
Man, is it Strange Cargo on Muni week, or what? Muni rider Dan says, “Wanted to share this photo my boyfriend took while we were on an outbound L around 8 pm from Powell station. I just wonder where he got the bin.”
Can dirty Muni buses become showers?
Photo by bradlauster (original)
We took inventory recently, and by far, the most popular topics reported to us over the last five years are “overheard on Muni” and smells on Muni. Makes perfect sense.
So does Doniece Sandoval’s idea to turn old decommissioned buses into mobile showers for homeless people. Via SF Examiner:
Sandoval said she is working with a local design firm on how to retrofit the buses to include one shower and toilet for disabled residents and another two showers for the general population. Under the assumption that a shower takes five minutes, Sandoval hopes to attract 100 to 130 homeless citizens a day with her first bus, which will eventually be available seven days a week.
Read the rest of the story over at SF Examiner.
Cue cynical jokes (unless Monday is too early in the week for you). Perhaps the pilot project could be to wash people riding buses currently in operation? And most of Muni’s vehicles could use a good scrubbing down, too, right?
Seriously though, it sounds like an idea worth trying out. What do you think?