Muni News: Old Muni stop on the chopping block, less $ for new SFMTA chief

Boston Elevated 1059
Photo by franciscophile

  • SFPD Says They’ve Recovered Gun From Confrontation That Killed Man During Muni Fare Inspection (SF Appeal)
  • City Looking to Demolish Old Dolores Park Muni Stop (Uptown Almanac)
  • BART Staff Opposes Rush Hour Bike Access on Rear Cars (Streetsblog SF)
  • A Response to District 5 Diary (Central Subway Blog)
  • Tenderloin bus stop under fire for sheltering drunks, druggies in SF (SF Examiner)
  • Salary of new Muni chief to be less than predecessor (SF Examiner)
  • Muni moves to curb Clipper card fare cheats (SF Examiner)

Transpo Shopping Spree

The Golden Gate Bridge is well and fine as an emblem of San Francisco souvenir. But if you really want to show some local pride, the Muni worm is where it’s at. We went Etsy-diving and found some awesome stuff for your Monday morning shopping needs.

1. Wanna write down your Muni stories the old fashioned way? Check out the custom Muni notebook above made by Muni Diaries reader Christa.

2. More Muni shirts! Check out Sex Pigeon’s Muni shirts. (HT: SFist)

3. Watercolor painting of Polk Gulch transit. This beauty is a bit more expensive, but click on the listing to see the awesome hand-painted details.

 

4. Turn the lights on! Light switch panel covered with Muni transfers. Pretty neat idea, and I thought I had seen it all.

5. The same artist who made the light switch plate also made an amazing collage of the Golden Gate bridge out of Muni transfers.

6. Wood Routing by Dave Marcoullier Designs in solid cherry. Very cool.

7. And of course, don’t forget our Muni Diaries Long Live the Fast Pass shirt, modeled here by Tara. These shirts and baby onesies are also available at Secession Art and Design on Mission and 30th Street. Our Fast Pass Clipper Card holders will be back on Etsy in a few weeks, but if you want to own one now, you can buy them at Bay Crossings at the Ferry Building and at the Embarcadero station!

Wanna buy more stuff? Check out our other merchandise roundup post and Faern’s Twitter-sourced Muni transfer art.

Weekend Photos: Inside Looking Out

Admiring the scenery
Photo by tajasel

It’s already almost-August. That’s just nuts. But at least the fog will go away, and with it, those false Mark Twain comments.

And if you’re a youngster riding Muni, don’t forget that, starting in August, your Youth Fast Pass will be on a Clipper card. No more paper passes for you. You still get summers off, though, so stop complaining.

Also, around this time every year, the San Francisco Bay Guardian announces the winners of its editors and readers choice Best of the Bay awards. We lobbied you to vote Muni Diaries best local blog, and we thank you for your votes. Alas, we didn’t make the cut. Our friends at SFist did win best local blog 2011, deservingly, and we congratulate them.

Here are some fun things going on this weekend around town:

Check the SFMTA’s weekend transit and traffic advisories, and you’ll no longer be able to say they didn’t tell ya.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!

MUNI
Photo by millsbaker

MUNI
Photo by eva.lu

Friday FiDi Afternoon
Photo by rotron


Photo by mattbraga

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