Needles on Muni for the Holiday Season


Photo: Telstar Logistics

Not those needles.

Ever since @sabrinabot tweeted this:

for some, red cups signify the start of holiday season. for me it’s knitters on the muni. saw two today, the holidays can begin!

…we’ve seen our fair share of them, too. With less than two weeks to go, I expect to see even more commuting elves working on handmade projects.

Since we do live in Scarf City, Fogland USA, knitting is a popular transit pastime year-round. Just ask Hooked on Muni (great name), every mischievous devil on International Yarn Bombing Day, and the good citizen who knitted coozies for the shelter seats, pictured above.

How’s your handmade holiday project going? Send us your knitted-on-Muni creations or your pics of the knitting elves. Spin your yarn (HAHA) to muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com.

Weekend Photos: Into and Out of the Fog

the devil's in the details
Photo by blarfiejandro

This Saturday is the San Francisco Santarchy, when hundreds of Santas will descend on San Francisco. So take some pictures and show them to those pesky people who told you Santa Claus doesn’t exist! And if you catch St. Nick on Muni, you know we’re dying to see it.

The main starting point is at the Civic Center station at 12:30 p.m., so get your red velvet outfits ready.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!

Market St. - Fog & Muni
Photo by amy halverson

San Francisco MUNI Station Ceiling
Photo by Eric Wagner

cable car pulleys
Photo by Robert B. Livingston

Night Train F Market
Photo by Telstar

I met you on the bus. Will you marry me?


Photo by Hello!Lucky

Christina (she of tweetsweet fame) alerted us to Cameron’s charming proposal story. Cameron proposed to “bus girl” via the rad paper book you see up there, which was made by Hello!Lucky. Here’s his story.

A few years ago I was waiting to catch the 1-California home from work when I saw a girl with glasses who immediately stood out in my mind. Looking back I have memories of thinking something like, “That’s a girl I could see standing next to me for the rest of my life.” Soon after that I noticed she also rode the same Golden Gate Transit bus I rode to San Rafael for work. Quite a few times we’d stand next to each other waiting for the 1, me trying to appear like I wasn’t paying attention to her. This tandem bus ride schedule went on for a couple weeks, but eventually I stopped seeing her on the bus.

A number of months and a relationship came and went. From time to time I’d wonder what happened to the bus girl. One day she appeared on my Golden Gate Transit bus. We began to smile at each other every now and then, but still we generally acted like we didn’t know the other was there. This game went on for a while, but eventually I decided it was time that I actually said hello to the bus girl. One day I sat down next to her on the bus. In my best I’m-not-trying-to-hit-on-you voice said, “Hi, I’m Cameron. I feel like we should know each other.”

I later learned that for that year and a half of talking about the “bus girl” with my friends, her friends had been calling me “bus boyfriend.” People like to give us a hard time for taking so long to say hello to one another, but we agree that we’re glad it took that long. We both changed a lot in that year and a half, every bit of it getting our personalities in just the right place for when we finally did meet.

Here are more images from his paper-proposal:


Photo by Hello!Lucky


Photo by Hello!Lucky

I’ve run out of ways to say “rad.” Congrats, Cameron and fiancée!

Speak Softly, Carry a Horn on Muni

Muni rider Sarah took this one. I love how quiet it is; I always (easily) forget how peaceful it can be on the bus.

…unless the guy at the very front honks the horn affixed to his cane. Per Sarah:

Hard to tell from afar, but there’s a squeaky horn on the end of that old man’s cane. I wonder if he uses it like a car horn, when people are walking too slowly in front of him, or to tell his wife to hurry up because he’s waiting outside.

It would certainly come in handy on Muni, let’s not kid ourselves here. Bravo, cane-horn guy. Few people can pull this off, but I think he does it well.

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