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Photo by jcsnotes
Check out the nice action shot at the cable car turnaround below.
If you’re out and about tonight looking for something to do, don’t miss American Tripps: Berlin style ping pong tonight in the Lower Haight. Friday, Jan. 13, 8:30 p.m. at D-Structure. 520 Haight Street. Take Muni there: 6, 21, 22, 71
Enjoy these photos and your weekend!
Photo by Wayne Worden
Photo by Christina Castro
Photo by Robert B. Livingston
Muni rider “D” sent us a photo of what looks like a camera on one of the new “wave” Muni shelters: “Just noticed these cameras at the shelters with the large “video” ads. Kind of Orwellian don’t you think?”
What is that thing? We asked SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose, and it turns out that the camera isn’t watching you, specifically.
“This is a camera, but it is not a surveillance or video camera. Clear Channel uses it to monitor vandalism/graffiti on the digital advertising panels. Only the shelters with digital advertising have them (about 90 right now). The camera takes a photo of the panel every 8 seconds or so and transmits it back to Clear Channel —- it does not take photos of people.”
There you have it. As most riders know, you may be filmed inside the bus, but not in the Muni shelters.
Now that’s how you bring about change. Get some dead-weight PCC streetcars and trolley buses onto your main drag to shut it all down. Pitchforks optional.
Photo via Lost in the 415, posted on the Muni Diaries Facebook wall. You can post there, too! Share whatever’s on your mind.
OMG, if only, right? Great photo by Mike Dillon in our Muni Photos Flickr pool.
And the journey turns into the best BART ride ever.
From Brokeass Stuart, who always knows how to turn on the fun:
We were all coming back from Allan’s (from MissionMission) birthday in Oakland. Ariel (also from Mission Mission) started doing flips on BART and eventually there were like four people doing them at a time. It was awesome!
See the rest of the acrobatics (and the romantic connection they inspired) at MissionMission.
