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September 22, 2009 jeff Leave a comment

San Francisco Main Lines

I was poking around Market Street Railway blog the other day when I came across the bad-ass-est site: It’s called San Francisco Cityscape, and it’s a virtual emporium of transit maps, photos of the city, even iPhone background-sized images of wonders like the Golden Gate Bridge or the cable cars on California mountain Street.

But yeah, it’s those transit map that really drew me in. Here are a couple (click image to see original in a new tab/window), but hop on over to SF Cityscapes to fully ingest these visual wonders.

San Francisco Bay Area Rail Transit

And my favorite …

California High-Speed Rail

Category: News Tags: announcement

Muni Art for Supervisor Eric Mar

September 21, 2009 eugenia 2 comments

We had an inkling that Muni art can be really cool, and it turns out that Supervisor Eric Mar thought so too. The Richmond district supervisor recently commissioned artist Leslie Henslee, owner of Frankenartmart, to make a sculpture of the 38 Geary. She used materials from the ‘hood like Ocean Beach sand, Golden Gate Park parts, and Richmond haunts to make the sculpture:

Pretty awesome that she’s sourced these local materials! See more pictures of the Heslee’s 38-Geary or go to Frankenart’s website to find out more about her projects.

Thanks to rider Joey for the tip!

Category: News Tags: 38-Geary

Be our 1,000th Twitter follower, win a Muni T-shirt! (update w/winner)

September 17, 2009 jeff 5 comments

Update (Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, 4:00 p.m.): And the winner is … memeticfield of San Francisco. Congrats!

Update (Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, 9:22 a.m.): We have a winner! Just not sure who it is yet … more to come.

Original post: Shameless self-promotion? Sure. Bean-counting? Maybe. Winning free stuff? Hell yeah!

Muni Diaries is proud to say that we’re fast approaching our milestone 1,000th follower on Twitter. In order to perhaps get there a little faster, and to show our appreciation, Walter Koning is offering one of his awesome Muni T-shirts as a prize to that on-the-nose 1,000th, non-spam, non-Brittney-fucked-vids follower. We’d like you to at least be from SF or the Bay Area, as much as we love our peeps in other time zones. So spread the word. We’ll announce the Twitterer who nails it at 1K as an update to this post once that happens. Stay tuned …

P.S. Don’t stop with a follow. Spread your Muni stories here, and tell your friends about Muni Diaries.

Category: News Tags: announcement

Photo diary: 16th and Mission’s fancy newish bus shelter

September 15, 2009 jeff Leave a comment

What do you think of the shiny new Muni bus shelters? Let us know in comments.

Category: News

The Fare-Evasion Crackdown: Is it working?

September 11, 2009 jeff 7 comments

Photo by Flickr user emilychang

Is riding for free the second-oldest profession? Sometimes, it sure seems so. I’ll admit, I dabbled in it a bit as a kid. But something happened along the way, when I decided to stop acting for the sake of action.

In any case, SF Weekly checks in with MTA’s crackdown on fare-cheats, and, according to Judson True, netting around 100 offenders per day is a sign of success.

Category: News