A new feature on Muni Diaries: Muni Time Capsule

Hi. Just a quick post to shamelessly plug a new feature on Muni Diaries. We’re calling it Muni Time Capsule, and it is what it sounds like: A place for all things having to with Muni history, like old photos, schedules, brochures, etc. Yes, the history of Muni is being written every day by you, dear rider. But Muni Time Capsule is a place for transit enthusiasts and the rest of us to gather and peer back. To a time before we all hated one another, a time when maps and schedules were drawn by hand, mimeographed, and otherwise made with sweat, blood, and tears.

So take a look at the Muni Time Capsule about page for a better understanding of what to expect over there. It works the same way Muni Diaries works: content will be provided by you and by us, so send us your relics today!

And check out the first post, a 1982 service changes brochure, courtesy longtime SF resident and transit geek, Randy Alfred. Pretty, pretty pamphlet …

Muni Metaphors

MUNI = MESS
Photo by Flickr user anitakhart

Within a span of 12 hours, I’ve seen two people on Twitter compare shittiness in some other system to Muni.

(via @troy) i think AT&T & Muni have the same biz model: over promise and under deliver. raise prices, lower SLAs. i hate them both equally.

(via @whole_tost) Damn you firefox, you used to take five minutes to load, now it takes 20! Starting to become the next Muni

I’m not going to pretend to scratch my head over this phenomenon. Instead, I’m wondering how many other metaphors we can come up with. I’m thinking:

Dude, this elevator is taking as long per storey as Muni does per mile. Ouch.

Or:

The sidewalks on Valencia are all Muni’d these days.

Or something. Got any other Muni metaphors? Let us know in comments please.

Muni Operators Stage Their Own ‘March Against Muni’

March Against Muni
Photo by Jamison Wieser

In a dramatic turn of events, Muni operators were out in force at yesterday’s “March Against Muni” at the Powell cable car turn-around, letting the marching Muni riders know that the drivers are not to blame.

“For those keeping score at home, the marching Muni drivers out-marched March Against Muni. And this was no mass movement; perhaps 200 drivers showed up compared to 50 to 100 March Against Muni folks,” Joe Eskenazi reports in the SFWeekly.

More reports from our transit news sources:

It might have seemed like the operators were out protesting the protesters. But the operators claim that not to be the case at all. According to the Examiner, their spokesperson says the union’s intent yesterday was to mark “the beginning part of working together.”

In any case, @munialerts declares, “Rally over. Union won.”

March Against Muni

More photos after the jump.
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