Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Click the image to get the jpg by itself. From there, either right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac) and download the jpg. Print it out, stash it somewhere safe, and produce it in the event you encounter an operator who hasn’t got the memo. (I’ll never get sick of whipping out that phrase. Heh.)
And of course, if you ever do need to show a driver the memo you printed out from Muni Diaries, be sure to let us all know!
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch
“San Francisco is full of characters.” Yes, exactly. For better and for worse.
Illustration by Walter Baumann
At 9 a.m. on an overcast Wednesday in June, I step out my front door in Noe Valley and within a few minutes hop on the 35-Eureka heading south (the opposite direction I usually go), forgetting the bus would soon loop back around past where I got on. Frustrating if I were a normal commuter, but part of my plan to go for distance and boost my time-in-transit. For two minutes I’m the only passenger on the 35.
In some sense, solo-busing quashes the green pride you’re feeling for removing one car from the road, and it confirms Muni’s recent budget woes. On the other hand, a city employee has become your personal chauffeur – in a vehicle longer than a Hummer limo – for $2 or less.
I sit in the back, staring out the window, doing the math I should have done a lot sooner: A transfer is valid for 90 minutes. Riding from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., without a monthly pass, I’d need to buy seven tickets at a grand total of $14. Conversely, Muni sells an all-you-can-ride 1-Day Passport for $13. Even with my monthly pass, I’d need to repeat this experiment four more times to make back the $60 I spent. Bastards.
Read the rest of Steven’s amazing account at the Bold Italic.
Saw these two photos by tofuart on our Muni Photos Flickr pool the other day, and just had to post them. Cute. That’s right, cute. What? (See the other photo by clicking “read more” —->)
Caption: “I tell you, the N-Judah is that way.”
I found this on Flickr a few weeks ago. Brett L., who posted it there, isn’t sure who drew it or where it was that he photographed it. I love the detail in this drawing.
Anyone happen to know who drew this masterpiece?
