Strange Cargo on Muni: Wooden-Chair-Sitting Crooner
If you’re gonna bring your own chair on the bus, the least you can do is provide musical entertainment for your fellow passengers, right?
Via Muni rider Amanda: “He’s also singing The Beatles…”
‘Only on Muni’ award nominees
Photo by Daniel Hoherd
Some things really seem like they only happen on transit vehicles here in San Francisco. And here are some notable moments from the recent past …
- Nothing says Friday like a 7 ft tall homeless man screaming about “time monsters” while shooting a toy ray gun. #sfmuni
- Woman using a snotty tissue to hold the bus rail #zomg #cantgetmoredisgusting
- OH on the J: Guy1:”If you didn’t see the Liberty Bell, what did you do in Philly?” Guy 2:”Picked up pretty boys, had sex.”
- Man w/NY accent screaming into flip phone about someone who shouldn’t have first bought things at Target and Costco. #sfmuni
- Chick in front on me on this #SFMuni #38 really feeling herself. Keeps making kissy faces at her own reflection
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Check out these amazing photos of Muni ruins
Todd Lappin of Bernalwood photographed an amazing series of transit ruins at Muni’s Marin Division Yard. These defunct streetcars are either waiting for restoration or to be taken apart piecemeal to restore other vehicles active in the fleet, Todd writes in his Medium story. The images are spooky and stunning, and you should definitely venture over to his photo story to see more.
t/t: the ever-wonderful CurbedSF.
Transit News: New Muni LRV funding, fare hike reaction, fare-pay app explored, second BART Transbay Tube floated, Muni accidents
Photo by Matt’ Johnson
- Supervisors committee approves $1.2B contract for new Muni light-rail vehicles (SF Examiner)
- Extra 25 Cents Irks Muni Riders Unhappy With Service (Mission Local)
- SFMTA in talks to build a smartphone ticketing app (Business Insider)
- 2nd Transbay Tube needed to help keep BART on track (SFGate)
- Pedestrian hit by Muni light-rail train in Bayview (SFGate)
- Minivan Strikes Cyclist, Crashes Into Muni Bus (SFist)
- The Green Cross’ Debut Muni Ads Keep It Classy (SFGate)
May the N-Judah be with you
It’s not every day that Millennium Falcon pilot and all-around bad-ass Chewbacca rides Muni. In fact, it takes the annual Giants’ Star Wars hoorah at AT&T Park to get this Wookie on the N-Judah.
We’re guessing he’s headed toward some wretched hive of scum and villainy out in the Sunset somewhere.
Chewy was last spotted in cardboard-cutout form on Muni. Glad he left the crossbow at home this time.
Via 7×7.
Faith in humanity restored on Muni? Say it ain’t so …
Photo by Sam Ejnes
I mean, I guess it was bound to happen at some point, right? Given the law of averages and everything, good things can and do happen on Muni. Here are some recent examples:
- anyone feeling sad today: get on the 1 Calif. number 5543, driver is wearing a Santa hat singing Spanish & yelling at cars
- I want to be as excited about something as kids are to pull the stop cord on the bus.
- Man doing an impression of bear speaking in tongues on 30 Stockton. #muni
- Just witnessed a young boy hold the #sfmuni doors open for a few minutes so an elderly woman could catch up
I’m as cynical as they come, but these tweets make me think there might be hope for humanity. Wait, no, sorry about that. I won’t let it happen again.
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