Muni inspires new U.S. Postal Service stamps?

Muni rider Charles passed this one along. SF resident Eli Noyes drew some stamps for the Postal Service’s “Go Green” stamp series.

Noyes says he let life in San Francisco inspire his work on the stamps. Naturally, there’s a stamp with a bus on it. Muni looks good in green, no?

Read about Noyes and the stamps at SFGate.

And yes, we see the irony of the Postal Service’s message, “Go green” with “by using dead-tree mail” implied. Still!

Transit News: BART surplus, Muni communications upgrade, AC Transit “Made in the USA”


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  • BART budget surplus boosts plans for future (SF Examiner)
  • Switchback setbacks reduced on Muni lines (SF Examiner)
  • Push made for ‘Made in America’ transit vehicles (CC Times)
  • Taking the train to the Transbay Terminal (City Insider)
  • Muni board to approve upgrading communications system (SF Examiner)
  • BART worker may lose job over act of ‘benevolence’ (SFGate)
  • Bill bars cell service shutdown by public agencies (SFGate)

Free Muni for Low-Income Kids Passes SFMTA Board


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According to reports from Tuesday’s SFMTA board meeting, something like free Muni for kids has made it onto the budget for the next couple of years.

The board favored a free youth pass program for low-income students, but members weren’t convinced that expanding the proposal to include anyone under 17 would be worth the trade-offs in cuts to Muni maintenance that staff presented to the board — at least in this budget cycle.

The two-year budget must now be approved by the Board of Supervisors before going into effect. Read Streetsblog SF for more.

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