Video: Watch a new Muni Metro tunnel being born
Dear fellow transit geeks: This is cool. The end.
Via Central Subway Blog.
Category: News
Transit News: New BART trains, BART contract, SF transportion proposal, BART snafu
Photo by Takashi(aes256)
- BART Spending Almost $640 Million On 365 New Train Cars (SF Appeal)
- BART unions to sue over contract snafu (SFGate)
- Mayor’s Task Force Proposes Solid First Steps to Fund SF’s Transport Needs (SF Streetsblog)
- BART Snafu That Sent Nine To The Hospital Caused By Electrical Short At 70 MPH (SF Appeal)
Muni Love/Hate: No more promotional signs on bus marquees
You cheered for “Equality for all!” You hissed, bitched, and whined for “Go Giants!”
Now we can just go back to not giving much of a damn about what’s on our bus marquees. Oh well, that was fun.
SF Appeal reports that SFMTA/Muni will cease its practice of promotional messages. WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY DO SUCH A THING? you ask.
“The transit agency’s decision to terminate the program is the apparent result of increasing complaints from riders — some of whom are developmentally disabled — claiming that the messages distract from reading Muni route information, officials said.”
So, so practical, Muni. Thanks for that.
Read the rest of the article at SF Appeal.
For the record, we were big fans of “Equality for all!” We suspect you might’ve been, too.
Fast Pass wallets are back!
Just in time for gift-giving season!
With the help our trusty craftswoman, Heather, we’ve restocked the Muni Diaries Etsy store with hella new wallets. Each has its very own authentic Fast Pass hand-sewn into it, with a backing of various old Muni maps and room for your Clipper card and a few other items. Only $10 plus shipping.
Get one for yourself, or to give to that special someone on your list.
Muni Diaries store on Etsy
Other Cities’ Transit: Moscow fare payment, NYC musical turnstiles
Photo by Special*Dark
We always kinda expect New York City’s MTA to be years ahead of Muni (and BART, for that matter). True to form, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy has a plan for musical subway turnstiles in the Big Apple.
“I’ve been fighting for now 14 years to try to do this, to make all the subway turnstiles make music. I want to make every station in New York have a different set of dominant keys, so that people when they grow up, later on in life, will hear a piece of music and be like, “Oh that’s Union Square.”
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Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Subway construction moratorium, Salesforce, Urbanathlon
Holiday Moratorium
Central Subway construction will pause on Stockton Street in Union Square and recommence in January 2014. All Union Square businesses remain open. Stockton Street and Ellis Street will be paved and reopened to traffic by Friday. One lane of Ellis Street between Stockton Street and the Ellis-O’Farrell Garage will remain closed during the holidays due to work related to the Central Subway tunnels.
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