Category: News

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• NTSB Reacts To BART Deaths With “Urgent” Safety Recommendations (SF Appeal)
• Tentative Agreement Averts AC Transit Strike (SF Appeal)
• Oakland airport BART tram to open in fall 2014 (SFGate)
• Man with knife steals Muni transfers (SFGate)
• San Francisco at 1 million: Focus turns to Muni reliability and funding as population swells (SF Examiner)

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Offering further proof that dogs are THEE BEST, a guide dog named Orlando is being credited with helping to save his owner, who fainted in a New York City subway station, sending the two tumbling onto the subway tracks.

According to the Associated Press, Cecil Williams is still unsure why he passed out. He said that Orlando tried to hold him up, barking frantically before they both went over the edge. Bystanders called for help, the subway driver was able to slow the train, and Cecil and Orlando suffered only minor injuries.

Who’s a good boy? A very good boy?

Via Yahoo News.

Pictured above: An adorable dog in a backpack in a BART station, not the dog or the human mentioned in the story. But, cute!

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• Muni trolley wire ‘visual pollution’ electrifies debate (SFGate)
• Muni NX buses to be replaced with hybrids (SF Examiner)
• BART fares to rise 5.2 percent in 2014 (KTVU)
• Killed BART workers had backs turned to oncoming train (SFGate)
• Muni could collect millions in fines against private shuttles — but it won’t (SF Bay Guardian)
• Bay Area sets transit spending targets (SFGate)
• Pitch to voters: no BART strikes allowed (SFGate)
• AC Transit sees progress in contract talks (Contra Costa County Times)

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Muni’s latest upgrade to its many bus shelters was met with widespread outrage. Rightly so, given the new shelters’ inability to, well, shelter.

Now via Muni rider Randy comes a collection of transit shelters from around the world that blow Muni shelters out of the water. File under: Why Can’t We Have Nice Things?*

Read the rest of the post at Dark Roast Blend to see more neat transit shelters.

* I know the answer to this.