Muni Home Décor Project
Muni rider Jon moved here a few months ago, and fell right into lockstep with the rest of us.
And some people say we are obsessed with public transportation.
Here is Jon’s BART wallmap:
Category: BART
Video: Watch Crew Install New BART Seats
A promotional video, yeah, but these are the folks responsible for de-nastifying BART seats. Props for that, y’all.
So, are we digging the new vinyl BART seats?
AT&T Park: Corgi Dressed as BART Train
This one I shall eat with a spoon.
Transit-themed costumes showcasing Bay Area pride are par for the course. Even Muni Diaries has been known to make costumes from time to time.
And transit. Let’s not forget transit.
A+ for craftsmanship and awesomeness goes to the corgi repping BART.
Transit News: Good Muni cameras, Muni mirrors, North Beach subway work, late-night BART
Photo by Confetti
- Muni Cameras Help Exonerate Alleged Criminals, Too (SF Weekly)
- Clipper Preparing to Make You Bounce Checks, Collecting Money From As Long Ago As 2010 (SF Appeal)
- Muni Mirrors: Drivers Ignore High-Tech Replacements (SF Weekly)
- Human Rights Commission Praises Muni’s Response to Furor over “Defeat Jihad” Ad (SF Weekly | backstory here)
- Subway utlity work begins in North Beach despite lawsuit (ABC 7)
- Take a late-night BART service survey (BART.gov)
Rules for Avoiding People on Public Transit
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Kim’s totally unsocial rules:
- Avoid eye contact.
- Lean against the window and stretch out your legs.
- Sit on the aisle seat and listen to music to pretend not to hear people asking for the window seat.
- Place a large bag or multiple items in the empty seat to make it time-consuming to move.
- Look out the window with a blank stare to appear crazy.
- Pretend to be asleep.
- Put your coat on the seat to make it appear already taken.
- If all else fails, lie: Say the seat has been taken by someone else.
While much of Kim’s research was done on long-distance bus rides, some of the same conditions apply to intra-city travel. And this rang all sorts of bells for us:
Kim found that the greatest unspoken rule of bus travel is that if other seats are available you shouldn’t sit next to someone else. As the passengers claimed, “It makes you look weird.”
Read more about Kim’s work, including what people tend to do when drivers announce a full bus, here.
How do you handle strangers on Muni and BART?
100-Percent Official Trend: Cat on a Backpack
Lo and behold, I found another kitty on a backpack: Ginger here was spotted at the 16th and Mission BART station.
Last week, we broke urgent and totally important news of a punk-rock cat on Muni Metro. This appeases your Muni Diaries cat ladies greatly.
You know where to send your transit stories if you’ve found something cute out and about.