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  • Muni Reports Low On-Time Rate Remains Far Below Goal (SF Public Press)
  • Lawmakers question use of operating funds for free Muni youth program (SF Examiner)
  • Giant ridership for Muni World Series service (SFGate)
  • BART celebrates Warm Springs Extension milestone with tunnel walk (BART.gov)
  • Transit ridership set records on parade day (SFGate)
  • Muni insurance won’t replace torched bus (SFGate)

Retro Buses Celebrate Muni Centennial


Photo by @thecara

OMG, you guys. It’s like an old car show, Muni-style. Beginning yesterday, and happening again next Sunday, Muni is wheeling out special Sunday service for these vintage buses to celebrate Muni’s upcoming 100th birthday. How cool is that?

The fine folks at Market Street Railway have more on the two-time special Sunday service. Meanwhile, click the photo below to open a gallery of images we dug up.

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Photo by itsgraaaay

Photo credits:

1. itsblim
2. itsgraaaay
3. agentakit
4. @larrybobsf
5. agentakit
6. @thecara
7. @markasaurus
8. @thecara
9. cripsahoy
10. @thecara
11. @thecara
12. @thecara
13. abobass

SFPD arrests suspect in assault on Muni station agent

The SF Police Department has made an arrest following the beating of a Muni station agent. From the SFPD press release:

On November 2, 2012, the San Francisco Community College District Police Department received an anonymous tip that the suspect was on the Phelan Campus. They detained the suspect and contacted the San Francisco Police Department. Officers from the San Francisco Police’s Muni Task Force responded to the campus and took the suspect into custody.

The suspect was identified as Devon Riley, 20, resident of San Francisco. Riley was interviewed Muni Task Force officers. Riley was booked into San Francisco County Jail on the following charges: battery with serious injuries, battery on a transportation operator and mayhem. All three charges are felonies. Riley’s mug shot is not being released at this time pending further identification matters.

“Mayhem” sounds about right to us. We’ll update here if more details emerge.

Your Weekend Transit Advisory

Let’s see if we can make it through this weekend without: lighting any buses on fire, killing ourselves on the Muni tracks, and punching Muni station agents. Deal?

Here’s SFMTA’s advisories for getting around on Muni this weekend. Be careful out there, y’alls.

Festival of Altars and Day of the Dead Procession
On Friday the annual celebration of Festival of Altars and Day of the Dead Procession will take place in the Mission District. Staging of Day of the Dead procession will begin on Bryant Street and the Festival of Altars will take place in the Garfield Park from 6 to 11 p.m. For more event details, please visit www.dayofthedeadsf.org.

The following Muni routes will be affected:
· 12 Folsom
· 14 Mission
· 14L Mission Limited
· 27 Bryant
· 48 Quintara-24th Street
· 49 Van Ness-Mission
· 67 Bernal Heights

N and J Line Rail and Street Improvements
From 8 p.m., Friday through 5 a.m., Monday, the SFMTA will continue the Church & Duboce project which will include track replacement on Duboce Avenue between Church and Webster streets. The Carl Street project will include track replacement for the Sunset Tunnel, street repaving on Carl Street at Cole, Shrader, Willard and Stanyan streets intersections and overhead wire repair work along Carl Street.

U.S. Fall Half Marathon
On Sunday the 11th annual U.S. Fall Half Marathon will commence from Aquatic Park. The 13.1-mile course will take runners across the Golden Gate Bridge and back to Aquatic Park. The race will begin at 7 a.m. For event details, please visit www.ushalf.com.

The following Muni routes will be affected:
· 28 19th Avenue
· 30 Stockton
· 47 Van Ness
· 49 Van Ness-Mission

SFPD Releases Video of Bicyclist Attacking Muni Station Agent

The San Francisco Police Department released this video of a bicyclist who attacked a Muni station agent. This happened at the Van Ness station when the agent told said bicyclist that he couldn’t take his bike on the train.

From SFGate:

The assault happened Oct. 10 around 7:40 p.m. after the bicyclist tried to pass through the fare gates at the station with his bike, police said.

The station agent on duty, a 55-year-old man, told the bicyclist he could not bring his bike into the station, but the man ignored him, lifted his bike over the railing and jumped over the railing himself.

The station agent suffered serious injuries from blows to his head and has not been able to return to work, SFGate reports. The San Francisco Police Department website has two more closeup photos of the assailant from the surveillance video.

From the SFPD: Anyone with information is asked to contact S.F.P.D. Muni Task Force at (415) 832-8338 or the anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or text-a-tip to TIP411, and begin the text with SFPD.

Man struck and killed by Muni near the Montgomery station


Photo by @zackharrison117

A man was struck and killed by a Muni Metro train near the Montgomery station, SFGate reports. Expect delays all over the Muni Metro system this morning. In this photo by @zackharrison117 on Twitter, a sizable crowd was waiting at Church and Duboce for the delayed train to go downtown. More from SFGate:

An inbound N-Judah train hit the man in the tunnel 700 feet west of the station platform shortly before 7:30 a.m.

Officials said it is unclear why the man was in the tunnel. He was declared dead at the scene, and the station will be closed until the medical examiner’s office arrives and conducts its investigation.

We’ll update this post as more details, including delay information, become available.

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