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Some Muni operators are still not familiar with the new policy allowing children in open strollers on Muni. Muni rider MJ is a babysitter who saw an operator misstate this policy last week. Read more
Look at all those Giants games! Be advised:
Baseball Game Traffic Reroutes
The San Francisco Giants will play several home games beginning Friday through next Friday at AT&T Park.
Three games against Los Angeles Dodgers:
· 7:15 p.m., Friday
· 6:05 p.m., Saturday
· 5 p.m., Sunday
Two games against Philadelphia Phillies
· 7:15 p.m., Tuesday
· 12:45 p.m., Wednesday
Two games against Atlanta Braves
· 7:15 p.m., Thursday
· 7:15 p.m., Friday
The SFMTA advises motorists of the increased congestion in San Francisco and advises commuters to use transit and avoid using the Bay Bridge on these dates.
For details about transit service to AT&T Park, including connections from Bay Area transit systems to Muni can be found at www.sfmta.com. Regional transit information for BART, Caltrain and the ferries as well as traffic is available at www.511.org.
Phelan Loop Construction
From 1 a.m., Saturday until 4:30 a.m., Monday, the SFMTA will finalize construction work on the Phelan Loop. The new loop configuration will open Monday. For more details, please visit www.sfmta.com/phelan.
The following Muni routes will be affected:
· 8X Bayshore Express
· 49 Mission-Van Ness
Thong Protest Demonstration
From noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, the Thong Protest Demonstration will take place at Jane Warner Plaza.
The F Market & Wharves Muni line will be affected.
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Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Starting next week, BART will be able to ban unsavory passengers. SFist has the story:
Thanks to a policy passed by the BART board last year, anyone caught defacing a building, taking a dump on the train or harassing passengers and station agents can be banned from the system for up to a year.
Go to SFist for the full story.
What do you think of this new policy? Long past due? Ripe for abuse?
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We took inventory recently, and by far, the most popular topics reported to us over the last five years are “overheard on Muni” and smells on Muni. Makes perfect sense.
So does Doniece Sandoval’s idea to turn old decommissioned buses into mobile showers for homeless people. Via SF Examiner:
Sandoval said she is working with a local design firm on how to retrofit the buses to include one shower and toilet for disabled residents and another two showers for the general population. Under the assumption that a shower takes five minutes, Sandoval hopes to attract 100 to 130 homeless citizens a day with her first bus, which will eventually be available seven days a week.
Read the rest of the story over at SF Examiner.
Cue cynical jokes (unless Monday is too early in the week for you). Perhaps the pilot project could be to wash people riding buses currently in operation? And most of Muni’s vehicles could use a good scrubbing down, too, right?
Seriously though, it sounds like an idea worth trying out. What do you think?
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You already know that you shouldn’t brandish your phone on the bus, right? Well, that hasn’t stopped people from keeping their heads buried in their mobile devices while on Muni. Maybe Kaniko’s story will change your mind.
Kaniko sent us details of how her iPhone was grabbed out of her hands on Muni. This is the third report we’ve received about iPhone theft on the 38-Geary. Read more