Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Some like to tune the world out. Others actively people-watch. And there are those who capitalize on their commute time by practicing origami.
The art of fine paper-folding is by no means the only art/craft that Muni riders engage in. To whit, we told you years ago about a few people who knit on the bus. And this finished origami bird found a home on Muni.
What do you do to pass the time on your commute?
Oh, The Onion is drawing inspiration from life in San Francisco again with, “Man with Serious Mental Illness Committed to Bus.” Sure, this could prompt a revisit to the piss-pillow incident of 2014 or rightful hand-wringing over the state of mental-health services. But let’s focus on these things instead:
Image above via The Onion
Photo by Lynn Friedman
Photo of BART lab via NextCity.org
BART’s old cloth seats may have been generally regarded as revolting, but its ticket machines aren’t so bad, at least according to one self-proclaimed germaphobe.
In an article for the website Next City, author Aaron Reiss pits New York Subway ticket machines against BART’s, declaring the Bay Area transit agency the winner from an anti-microbial standpoint for how few times you have to touch or otherwise interact with the machines to add money or buy a new card. While adding $3 to a BART card took three steps, for example, doing the same on a New York MTA machine took 11 steps and required navigating a series of touch screens.
The article is an interesting read, even for those not adverse to touching things in public. It features photos from inside the BART lab where turnstiles and other equipment is tested, and other BART background. The inspiration for BART’s machines? An ATM. Who knew?
Read the full post on Next City here.
If you haven’t already, stop everything you’re doing. Nothing could possibly be more important than this sleeping panda at the Muni stop. *LOL his bus just never arrived LOL*
I hereby nominate this panda to be the new San Francisco Panda, now that that “other guy” bailed down (boo!!!!)
h/t Muni rider Dan: “Out of luck panda sleeping at bus stop. In need of a hug… #savethepandas”
Yeah, BART, why so negative?
h/t BART rider Zoe: “I work with the coolest people! @mollyampersand made #BART signs that are positive & fun. @SFBART, what do you think?”