About BART’s poop-covered escalators

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Photo by Jeremy Brooks

On Wednesday, SFGate ran a story about human waste being the cause of so many broken escalators at downtown San Francisco’s BART stations. You might want to wait to eat breakfast until well after reading this story.

The most vomit-inducing passage:

All those biological excretions can gum up the wheels and gears of BART’s escalators, shutting them down for long periods of extended repairs, increasing station cleaning costs and creating an unpleasant aroma for morning commuters.

Read on, if your stomach will allow.

Category: BART, News

Survey: What’s the first thing you tell newbies about Muni?

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Photo by skew-t

The other day on Twitter, we threw up the following question:

When out-of-town friends ask about #Muni, what’s the FIRST thing you tell them?

We figured you guys would treat us to some USDA prime juicy-as-hell responses. You did not let us down.

Among them (add yours in comments, below):

http://twitter.com/jvhickey/status/227928391230300160

http://twitter.com/bahnhofe/status/227860992539893760

Category: diaries

Muni Transformers Seek Mission District Tacos

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Oh, look: a decidedly Mission District set of Transformer-like beings. Note the distinctive Muni palette.

Lohkay found this on a T-shirt last month at (we think) the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market last month. Per Lohkay’s Tumblr:

The dude at the stall said he made all the t-shirts, but when we commented that it was Transformers he said he didn’t know what those were he just wanted to make a cool shirt. Could be honest or could’ve just found the art online — EITHER WAY I just wanna know if anyone has any information on who is the original artist for this badass t-shirt.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Muni Transformer — AKA Muniformer. They are obviously hiding among us waiting to battle Munitron, and I am 100-percent sticking to that story, yep.

Category: diaries, Photos

Mystery Muni Accordion-Player

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Image courtesy @clowntraps

Update (1:34 p.m.): @clowntraps was kind enough to share the photo above, adding, “the N Judah accordion player from yesterday. Quite good!” So there you have it. Now, audio, anyone?

Original post: You know what they say about three making it a trend, right? Well, here we go.

1. Bummed

2. Joyous

3. Indifferent?
https://twitter.com/lfm0sca/status/227960708481032192

We recently learned of a mysterious full band entertaining/irritating L-Taraval passengers. Won’t someone help unmask the accordion player on the N-Judah? Are the two somehow related?

Here’s another photo, this one showing TWO accordion players, from bananaeggroll:

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No, but thanks for asking

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Photo by John ‘K’

Sam had a noteworthy experience on Muni recently. On her Tumblr, she called this “Lady next to me on Muni.” Here’s what happened:

LADY: *something in a different language*
ME: I’m sorry, what?
LADY: *again in different language*
ME: What?
LADY: You don’t speak Ordu?
ME: No, I’m Iranian.
LADY: Oh.. are you Iranian Muslim?
ME: No, I’m not religious
LADY: …..
ME: …..
LADY: ……
she goes and sits somewhere else

Score one for honesty!

Category: diaries, reflection
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