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Friend of Muni Diaries Dhaya has a top-shelf comedy show that you really need to see. With a flyer that up there, I mean, how could you say no?
Details:
Nerd Nation
Exit Studio, 156 Eddy Street
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (last show!) at 8 p.m.
More info at DhayaComedy.com
Last week, we told you about how the Stupid Super Bowl wants to take down our beloved Muni trolley wires on Market Street so they can have their stupid football party, or whatever. Since then, Erik Ogan has created a Change.org petition that you can totally sign in an attempt to stop this stupid idea from becoming reality. Go on, sign the petition.
This has been a service of the Muni Diaries Sensibility Project.
Photo by @nyxnax
You’ve seen the ads on the bus. Now you can download Muni’s mobile ticket app on your pocket computers today (hat tip to Akit for his post here). The MuniMobile app is available for iPhone and Android, so you can give it a whirl.
I just downloaded the app onto my iPhone. You can only buy single tickets, a cable car ticket, or a 1,3,7-day pass. There doesn’t seem to be a way to buy a monthly pass on the mobile app, or to transfer the November monthly pass that I already bought (duh) from my Clipper Card onto the new mobile app. And you won’t be able to do inter-agency transfers to BART or Caltrain on the mobile app. So for now, I can’t really use this app until … never. But your word is better than mine: Have you used the MuniMobile ticketing app. If so, how did it work for you?
A few bits of advice from the MuniMobile people on how to use the app (hint: Don’t change your phone! Your tickets don’t automagically transfer to a new phone).
Remember when the news about the Board of Supervisors passing the Subway Master Plan broke? That … that was awesome.
Now, on the heels of that news, the always-handy Muniverse digs into four projects already at least in the study phase that the SMP will affect now that it has been passed.
By far, the biggest project (for the region) will be a Second Transbay BART Tube and a new line through San Francisco. BART is still in the early stages of planning, but there’s one particular corridor that seems to be gaining traction and included in presentations. Under this setup, the second Transbay Tube would cross the bay from Alameda to San Francisco, landing around AT&T park and running under Second or Third to Market Street.
Other systems/projects that will benefit from the new plan are: the Caltrain/High-Speed Rail, an M-Ocean View/Park Merced extension and maybe-subway, and the T-Third/Central Subway extension to Fisherman’s Wharf. Read the rest of Muniverse’s post about the Subway Master Plan for more details.
Image by Muniverse/Jamison Wieser
Photo by Sam Wolson, from an ongoing project following Shannon Fulcher in Oakland.
Status Update is a new exhibition of documentary photography and video about change, chance, and inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area. Curated by Pete Brook and Rian Dundon, the exhibition spans the work of 14 photographers who have been documenting life in the Bay Area, some of them for decades. The curators emphasize their “deliberate and slower approaches to documentary work,” more a “take a step back and look at what’s happening” than just relying on gut reactions.
This seems like a big deal.
Back in September, we told you about Supervisor Scott Wiener’s Medium.com post calling for subways all over San Francisco. Well, funny thing happened at City Hall the other day: the Board of Supervisors approved two new measures that aim to bring subways all over San Francisco. UpOut has the story:
The SF Board of Supervisors just approved two new measures to remedy the gridlock. The Subway Master Plan will eventually expand BART and Muni throughout the city.
[…] The Subway Master Plan will develop long-term solutions for improving public transportation and offer accessibility to more residents.
The Transportation Sustainability Fee was also approved. For the first time ever, property developers will be required to pay transit impact fees. This will generate an estimated $1.3 billion over 30 years by regulating new market-rate housing construction. That adds up to $44 million annually, which will be directly funneled to transportation improvements.
Cool. So, think general. The specifics can be worked out by specifics-minded people in the future. Maybe they could start with the drool-enducing, visionary San Francisco subway map at the top of this post.
The whole story on UpOut is worth your time, if the idea of hella subways in San Francisco excites you the way it excites me.
Image by Elliott Spelman