Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Be as adorable and positive as this emergency handle while it guides you to safety.
In addition to being a welcome a.m. greeting for this cranky 14R commuter, it’s good companion piece to another recent reminder: keep your eyes up and your phone down when riding public transportation.
Is pareidolia a potential SFMTA marketing campaign? I think so!
Every day, you help us document a slice of San Francisco life here on Muni Diaries. And twice a year, we bring your stories live to the stage. Come celebrate all the funny, sweet, and weird things that happen in our city at Muni Diaries Live next Saturday, Oct. 10.
For this show, we’re welcoming back Driver Doug (above), who’ll tell you what Muni drivers really think of us. At the last show, he told us about secret hand signals, tricky fare boxes, and how a Muni driver can tell whether you’re really ready to get on the bus. Get ready for even more behind-the-scenes tales from the driver’s seat.
Doug will be joined by the rest of a great lineup: storytellers Cara Tramontano, Jerry Lee Abram, Kristee Ono, and Gabriel Armstrong. And you just cannot miss a Muni haiku face-off between Baruch Porras-Hernandez and reigning champion Ronn Vigh. Musical guest Satellite High wrote an entire rap album based on Muni stories—you can’t get more San Francisco than this.
Pro tip: Unless you really love standing in hella long lines, advance tickets are the way to go.
Details
Muni Diaries Live
Sat., Oct 10, doors: 6pm, show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $16.
Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St stations
We are big fans of Parisoma. For years now, they’ve graciously lent us their “Jeff” chairs (no relation) so that you can sit and enjoy Muni Diaries Live like the civilized adult that you are.
And so we wanted to let you know about an upcoming class Parisoma is having.
Productivity by Design: Design Your Habits
Behavior Design borrows product design techniques from the world’s most innovative companies to change human behavior. In this workshop, we will learn how to apply these techniques to create sustainable habits that support productivity, health, and wellbeing.
Get your tickets here, and enjoy the learnin’.
Join us at Muni Diaries Live on Saturday, Oct 10, for a night of true, hilarious, weird, and sweet stories that can only happen on Muni! Grab a ticket and we’ll see you there!
</snark>No, seriously.
You have a phone. You ride Muni. You are thus eligible to beta test Muni’s new mobile ticketing app, MuniMobile. From SFMTA:
MuniMobile enables customers to purchase and use transit fares across the Muni system.
Buy Muni tickets and passes in advance or on-the-go! With MuniMobile, your phone is your fare. There’s no longer need to carry exact change or rely on fare vending machines to ride.
If you complete this survey by next Tuesday, Oct. 6, you could be chosen to test the app. Nothing could go wrong!
Dammit, go away, Snarky McSnarkerson!
Join us at Muni Diaries Live on Saturday, Oct 10, for a night of true, hilarious, weird, and sweet stories that can only happen on Muni! Grab a ticket and we’ll see you there!
Images courtesy SFMTA
Save your cab fare and hit a couple of bars tonight on the 38-Geary with your fellow riders and the San Francisco Transit Riders Union. We’ll be there to give away a raffle prize of a pair of tickets to Muni Diaries Live, with seats saved just for the winners. That’s right: no standing in line; just waltz in and say your name at the door!
The 38-Geary Pub Crawl will visit three bars in four hours, with each stop close enough so hopefully you don’t sober up too much under the florescent lighting in the bus.
By the way, did you know the 38-Geary is oldest original Muni line, and the most storied line on Muni Diaries? Seven years of documenting your bus rides don’t lie! Could tonight be the night for the second episode of this Missed Connection Love Story? Or an opportunity for a night time goat sighting? Whatever happens, just don’t be this guy.
From the good folks at SFTRU:
Meet us at any stop along the way from Civic Center to the Inner Richmond, or ride the whole route.
SCHEDULE:
6PM: Edinburgh Castle Pub , 950 Geary St (btw Larkin St & Polk St)7:30PM: The Pig & Whistle, 2801 Geary Blvd (near Masonic btw Collins St & Wood St)
9PM: Richmond Republic Draught House, 642 Clement St (btw 7th Ave & 8th Ave)
Can’t get enough of the 38? For a pretty decent day time trip, we have a 38-Geary Perfect Day Plan for you.
Photo by Muni rider Caroline