Examiner: Students Concerned With Safety on Muni
The Examiner‘s Beth Winegarner takes a look at how even kids are SAH on public transit.
Category: News
83-Year-Old Struck by Bus Was Flagging It Down
According to SFGate:
“An 83-year-old pedestrian struck by a Municipal Railway bus on Wednesday afternoon remains in critical condition, police said Thursday.
The male victim suffered severe injuries to his pelvis and both legs when he was run over by a 38-Geary bus at Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard in the Western Addition.”
Welcome to Muni Diaries
Well, finally!
What started in 2004 in a journalism class at San Francisco State University has now found its way, four years later, to the internet.
The idea wasn’t mine, originally, but was intended to be part of a magazine that covered San Francisco culture, neighborhood by neighborhood, with a very youthful slant. My co-editor Eugenia gets all the credit for Muni Diaries as an idea. Together, we decided it’s way cheaper and easier to do a website than to start a magazine from the ground-up. We brought a programmer/designer type on board, and had us an alpha site for a while.
Then we all got jobs.
A few years later, as blogging has taken off and become so easy that moms and dads the world over are doing it, I had the idea to just hatch this thing as a WordPress blog, and let it grow organically.
The idea is to create a forum specifically for anything having to do with public transportation in San Francisco. We’re gonna try to keep BART out of it (hint: we own bartdiaries.com, which may or may not launch soon, depending on the success of this site), and stick exclusively to:
- Stories of riding and waiting for Muni buses, light rails, and cable cars
- News stories involving Muni, especially accidents
- Agency news and commentary, especially gripes against fare increases and route rescheduling
- Hotties spotted on Muni
- Photos and video of any of the above
- Other topics, which I’m sure will present themselves over time
So please, feel free to contribute, comment, and tell your friends that they have a forum to talk with others about their experiences on San Francisco’s hated, yet loved public transportation system. – Jeff