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Transit News: Strollers on Muni, all-door boarding, BART fare hikes

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  • Strollers on Muni? Old rules still apply (SFGate)
  • Muni: All-Door Boarding Continues to Increase Bus Speeds, Fare Payment (SF Streetsblog)
  • Will the 36 Teresita drop Forest Knolls? (Forest Knolls)
  • All Muni Buses to Get Cameras for Transit Lane Enforcement by Spring 2014 (SF Streetsblog)
  • Prepare to Pay More to Ride an Already Miserably Crowded BART Train (SF Weekly)
  • Muni’s N-Judah line to get much-needed improvements (SF Examiner)
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Muni Diaries Live Is Back on March 2!

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Everybody has a Muni story: nail-clipping, whiskey-sharing, mythical-creature-spotting, and it just gets weirder all the time! Come hear true transit stories from riders, writers, and even a BART operator. Bonus: this show will also feature the second Muni Haiku Battle as our Lit Crawl champion defends his crown!

Storytellers:
Johnny Funcheap, master of frugal living
James Nestor, writer and reigning Muni Haiku champion
Anna Pulley, sex/relationship columnist and Muni haiku ninja
Kelly Beardsley, BART operator
Richie Nakano, chef at Hapa Ramen
Lucky Jesus unplugged!

Muni Haiku Battle is inspired by Dirty Haiku Battle, presented by our favorite Oakland show, Tourettes Without Regrets (first Thursday of every month at the Oakland Metro). You should definitely check it out every month. Like, seriously.

Details:
Muni Diaries Live
Saturday, March 2 at the Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Doors: 6 p.m. Show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $12
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St. stations

Get your tickets online soon, as Muni Diaries Live is known to sell out. And with this lineup? Yeah!

Facebook event page (tell your friends, yo!)

Event banner by Craig Fowler Design

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A new look for Embarcadero, Montgomery BART stations?

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Holy transit geekery! BART folks are floating a rather expensive, rather … laborious upgrade for San Francicso’s Embarcadero and Montgomery BART stations.

According to Matier and Ross:

The rebuilding of the Embarcadero and Montgomery Street stations would require tearing out the existing walls, installing new platforms, boring additional tunnels for staircases, and putting in extra elevators.

For added safety, the new platforms would have automated sliding glass doors that would open when the trains arrive.
The whole job could take more than five years, but the stations would remain open during that time.

The price tag currently sits at $900 million, and work wouldn’t begin until the next decade.

Get all the juicy details at SFGate.

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Cal grad student envisions C-Circle Muni line

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Market Street Railway wrote this week about extending the E-Embarcadero line, something they’ve been advocating for years.

Springboarding off a Streetsblog SF article about tearing down the northern end of Interstate 280, MSR blog points to an ambitious proposal by UC Berkeley grad student Ben Caldwell’s vision to take the E-Embarcadero streetcar line even farther: down through Dogpatch, then west to Noe Valley via a tunnel under Potrero Hill. We did mention that the plan is ambitious, right?

Being fans of transit and tunnels and transit tunnels, we like this bold idea. It’s at least worth reading up on. Do that over at MSR’s site now. Pancakes can wait.

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Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Baseball is back!

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Still recovering from your post-Super Bowl, super-letdown hangover? The Giants have the cure: Their annual FanFest is tomorrow! Yay, baseball!

What are you up to this weekend?

Giants FanFest
On Saturday, the 20th annual KNBR 680 Giants FanFest will take place between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at AT&T Park. An attendance of more than 35,000 participants is expected. For more details, please visit sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com.

Terry Francois Boulevard between 3rd and Mission Rock streets will be closed between 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Motorists should expect delays on all bridges and freeways leading into San Francisco for at least two hours before the start of the event and for at least two hours after the end of the event. Fans attending the event are encouraged to take public transportation.

Muni customers may purchase their fare in advance at the following locations during the time specified:

  • Embarcadero Metro Station, 7 to 10 a.m.
  • AT&T Park, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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Transit News: Mission buses on Market, Geary BRT, phone thefts on Muni, cable car crash

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  • Market Street upgrade could involve moving Mission Street buses (SFGate)
  • Transit Authority favors center lane option for Geary bus (Richmond Review)
  • Could report sink SFMTA plans for Pagoda Palace? (City Insider at SFGate)
  • Students sign up for free Muni rides by the thousands (City Insider at SFGate)
  • Phone, tablet rip-offs on transit surge (SFGate)
  • Muni Inspectors, Sensors Missed Loose Bolt That Caused Cable Car Wreck (SF Appeal)
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