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Photo courtesy The Poop, via AP
The Poop’s Peter Hartlaub today published a post and some killer photos from when BART was being built. Of the photos, we especially liked the one above, with Richard Nixon about to pimp walk onto BART. Go, Dick!
Meanwhile, in Watergate news that October 1972 day …
Photo by Whole Wheat Toast
According to SF Appeal:
Morning peak express buses will make 11 stops between 48th Avenue and 19th Avenue along Judah Street before beelining to Bush and Montgomery streets.
Similarly, evening express service will begin at Sutter and Sansome streets and will run express to 19th Avenue and Judah Street before making 11 local stops.
So, Outer Sunset Muni riders, we wanna know: What you think about this new service? It’s set to begin on June 13. Yea or nay?
Photo by AgentAkit
SF Appeal this morning reports that all the ticket machines in every BART station now include Clipper functionality. I’ve been seeing those little RFID medallions on the machines for a few months now. I guess they’re all operational.
If they work better than the transponders on turnstiles and Muni vehicles, this is a good thing. Or?
Photo by rafeejewell
Headline of the day goes to SF Appeal: USF Liberates the 5-Fulton And 21-Hayes; Summer Dancers Bunk Elsewhere.
One less thing for us all to bitch about …
Previously in the “Prima donnas on Muni” department:
Photo by R.Henry Goins
As you’ll see, we’re doing things a little differently this Friday. We decided to pull Muni news items out of our weekly “Weekend Photos” series. Weekend Photos will publish in a few hours, so stay tuned.
So here it is, your week in Muni news:
See any news items we missed? Let us know in the comments section.
Photo by prawnpie
SFMTA and the SF Examiner have more on the what and where, particularly if you plan on using transit at some point that day. Muni starts running express buses at 4:45 a.m. and express buses continue doing their thing after the race. But we do not have to remind you how of ugly the transit situation will be. Unless San Francisco surprises us for the 100th anniversary with an eleventy-billion-person, cushioned flying bus *crosses fingers*.
Photo by gregoirevdb
So, if you’re on the verge of tears after the fifth bus passes you by, or if you’re blissfully seated on a Muni chariot speeding back downtown, here are some options. Tweet your transit-themed photos and updates @munidiaries, write sloppily on our Facebook Wall, or, after your nap, visit the site and submit your harrowing, exceedingly positive, or wasn’t-so-bad transit tales. There are always Muni-themed costumes, so keep an eye out for those, make friends, and send those blurry captures our way.
Happy B2B! Hoping the transit gods smile on all of us that day.