It’s Almost Over: Today’s Giants parade will disrupt Muni


Photo by EricaJoy

The World Series champions San Francisco Giants will be toasted by the city in a parade this morning that starts at 11. CBS 5 has more:

“The parade will begin at 11 a.m. on Montgomery Street at Washington Street, the mayor’s office said. It will head south on Montgomery Street to Market Street, where it will go west to City Hall.

The public is invited to line the sidewalks along the parade route or gather in Civic Center Plaza for the celebration. Attendees are advised to arrive early and take public transportation.”

Here’s the advisory from SFMTA:

All Muni Metro trains will stop at Civic Center station for the celebration and Parade, as well as at Powell and Montgomery stations for the parade. The SFMTA will schedule six additional Metro shuttles to supplement the existing Metro service.

The additional service will begin at approximately 10 a.m. and continue until the event clears at Civic Center.

The following Muni routes and lines will be affected:

  • California Cable Car
  • F-Market and Wharves
  • 1-California
  • 2-Clement
  • 3-Jackson
  • 5-Fulton
  • 6-Parnassus
  • 8x-Bayshore Express
  • 9-San Bruno
  • 10-Townsend
  • 12-Folsom-Pacific
  • 19-Polk
  • 21-Hayes
  • 27-Bryant
  • 30-Stockton
  • 30X-Marina Express
  • 38-Geary
  • 41-Union
  • 45-Union-Stockton
  • 71-Haight-Noriega

And … Market Street Railway has an amazing photo of a 22-Fillmore going by the SF Seals stadium back in 1958, the first year the Giants played in San Francisco.

Delays on the N-Judah on the Embarcadero to recommence in … 157 days.

Rocking Muni for the Giants


Video by Amber Wolf of Wiz Bang Photography

You might’ve heard that a local baseball team did the biggest thing U.S. baseball teams can do last night. That’s right, the 2010 San Francisco Giants won the fucking World Series, y’all! And Muni was right in the thick of the wild celebration.

Watch the 33-Stanyan wade through the thicket of toilet paper and Giants fans in the Castro in the video above.

Fans in the Marina atop a 30-Stockton (photo by @jcsnotes):

More fans in the Marina took over the 2-Clement (photo by SHUN [iamtekn]:
San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series Champions

San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series Champions

I got a couple of pictures of guys hopping on top of a soon-to-be-stranded 14-Mission, on Mission Street, in (you guessed it) the Mission:

Amy grabbed this short video of that same 14-Mission:

Ariel has a shot of the 22-Fillmore stuck in the Mission:
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Giants fans on Muni were burning up Twitter last night too:

“Some guy stepping off the L announced GIANTS 3-0!! Driver repeated it over the PA. No reaction from riders. Me: Really? Giants!” @wallbounce

“people are sitting on 30s here on Chestnut. First Clipper now this. Anarchy!! Let’s go Giants clap x5” @jcsnotes

“28 driver now leading @SFGiants cheer.” @dalbizo

“I’ve never experienced anything like last night in SF after the win… I just remember running through cloudy MUNI buses #SFGiants@cementone

Indeed. Indeed.

Congrats to the 2010 San Francisco Giants!

Vote today: Muni on the ballot (update)


Photo by Justin Beck

Update (7:30 a.m. on Wednesday): Proposition G has passed 64-36. SF Appeal has results.

Original post: It’s election day, and since we have your attention and know you care deeply about Muni, you surely know by now that there’s a ballot measure this year to amend the city charter and change the way Muni operators are paid. Read more about Proposition G.

Muni Diaries was host to a lively debate over the merits of Prop. G in early October.

For more on the measure, check out Ocean Beach Bulletin’s coverage of the two sides of Proposition G: pro and con. Greg at N-Judah Chronicles has a Muni Rider Voter Guide.

If you live in District 10, check out some of your candidates talk about the proposition:

  • District 10 Supervisor candidate Eric Smith talks about fixing Muni.
  • District 10 Supervisor candidate Kristine Enea does the same.

Now, do your civic duty. Go vote!

Smallest Muni driver ever


Photo by Nicole Grant

A parent did this to their kid yesterday. And we think it’s freakin’ adorable. (Check the kid on the far left.)

Here’s another Halloween-on-public-transit shot, captured by Lilah:

And Mission Local has a nice gallery up of people actin’ a fool on BART and Muni.

If you saw other great/terrible costumes on Muni and have photos, share them in our Muni Photos Flickr group.

* Nicole assures us that the kid’s dad said it was cool to post the photo.

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