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As SF Weekly notes, fares account for around 25 percent of Muni’s annual revenue. But the idea is plausible; for example, offering the passes only certain times of year, and only for low-income students.
We’re curious what you think. We already know how many of you feel about Muni buses and streetcars filled with children. But what about public school students? Should they get a free ride?
David Kiehn, historian for the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, will be talking about the Miles Brothers and their many files. For a preview, check out the Market Street Railway‘s narrated version of the footage. It turns out that the film was made just days before the 1906 earthquake. Amazing stuff.
“Unraveling the story behind ‘A Trip Down Market Street'” is at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening at the Jewish Community Center. See details from Squidlist.
Photo by Erik Wilson
Mayoral candidate Phil Ting and his Reset SF team came up with this Muni survival kit with their version of essentials. Just one problem, though: how will you eavesdrop on all the great conversations that you can tweet at us if you’re wearing those headphones? Better put them on and pretend you’re listening to music while tweeting madly.
Read about what Ting and other mayoral candidates proposes to do with Muni if they’re elected in our mayoral candidate roundup.
NSFW!
My apologies in advance for the NSFW nature of this video. I don’t like it any more than you do, but then, it happened on Muni. Via SF Appeal, Dan McMenamin of Bay City News snapped two videos of a fight that broke out on Muni.
McMenamin told SFAppeal that a man and a woman started arguing on the 8X, the man poured some liquid on her, then :
“The woman who got poured on came back on the bus from another door then sprayed the guy with mace…he stumbles around as his pants start falling down. Eventually everyone on the bus had to clear out because the pepper spray spread.”
That’s why you’ll see a bare butt in the above video. Sorry. Come on guys, is this behavior really necessary?
Click over to SF Appeal to see how it all started.
Photo by: Kevin on Flickr
Can it be?
Whenever it happens — and we’re crossing our fingers that it does — will this make our Market Street Muni run more efficiently? Perhaps there will still be late starts, downed power lines, and pedestrians/bicyclists/transit vehicles moving out of turn. But private cars sharing lanes with transit vehicles is a major piece of the puzzle, from where I stand (and sit, crawling on Van Ness heading home or Market Street on the way to work).
Sound off in the comments and let us know what you think.