Cool Cable Car Art
By Mark Gould
Mark has also done some pretty cool transfer print with photos of the Castro Theater and other San Francisco landmarks.
You can find Mark on Flickr here.
Happy Belated Birthday, BART!
This Sept. 11 marked 40 years of BART ridership on our beloved BART. Listen to local historian Rick Prelinger tell the story of his BART ride on that very day, in this audio clip from a few years ago.
Happy 40th birthday, BART. The Bay Area would not be the same without you.
Please, for the love of god, don’t tell BART that “40 is the new 30,” because that just makes it angry.
Here’s Your iPhone Case Upgrade
Here’s one of her other designs.
Last year, we helped Faern source enough transfers to make other cool mixed media art.
p.s. Did you miss those Muni transfer Converse Chuck Taylors? You can really go all out on your public transit geekery. We encourage it.
Wanted Now: Converse x Muni
Photo by emilyville
You can get these bad boys at Shoe Biz. The nice guys at Shoe Biz told me that they didn’t have a lot of sizes left, so if you’re a big-footed girl like me you should probably step to it. The Converse City Collection also features two other styles featuring the Golden Gate Bridge and the Giants. Shoe Biz says that all proceeds go to providing housing for homeless families. Pretty cool.
Bay Citizen: Muni Issues Accurate On-Time Report
The Bay Citizen reports that the SFMTA has issued an accurate on-time report, after being called out by the publication in July that the agency was boosting these numbers. From SFMTA’s latest report, Muni’s vehicles were on time 57.2 percent of the time in August. “That number was slightly down from July when the on-time rate was 60.4 percent, according to the report, which covered the first eight months of 2012,” the Bay Citizen writes.
In July, the Bay Citizen also reported that then-CEO Nat Ford and another former CEO, Michael Burns, received bonuses because of these inflated rates.
From the Bay Citizen:
[Paul] Rose, the SFMTA spokesman attributed the 57.2 percent on-time rate in August to a combination of bus driver absences, rickety old vehicles, a Muni operator shortage and special events such as the America’s Cup yacht race that spread service too thin.
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Muni officials have long said that on-time performance isn’t the most important measure. Passengers, they reason, would rather that buses arrive consistently every five minutes rather than adhering to specific scheduled times.
On Friday, Muni also released other performance measures, such as how often buses bunch up together and create long waits for riders at bus stops. The number crunchers found that buses that were less than two minutes behind each other nearly 6 percent of the time.
What do you think: what metric is the most important to you as a bus rider?
What Exactly Is “Muni Hump C”?
Anyone care to guess? Photo by Amy.