Muni Diaries

Sometimes, tolerating big-city transit requires imagining your happy place or staring a hole through your iPhone. That’s why we love this story about New York City subway Good Samaritans who jumped into action and dragged a passenger from the train after a woman accused him of groping her. Does the Muni humper ring a bell?

The video of the whole takedown is above, including the accused perp getting arrested.

We know, we know, innocent until proven guilty. But don’t you just love the idea of a little subway justice?

Photo by Doctor Gage

• Surprise: BART Elevators Are Filthy and Poorly Serviced (SF Weekly)
• Massive bus facility under contruction at Islais Creek (Examiner.com)
• Decision on free Muni for youth still to come (SF Examiner)
• Downtown Muni Lines Rerouted For Central Subway Construction (SF Appeal)
• Former Muni Exec Defends Decision Not To Brake After Striking Pedestrian (SF Appeal)
• Muni to expand historic streetcar service for America’s Cup events in August (SF Examiner)
• Muni eyeing plan to install new digital cameras on buses (SF Examiner)
• Streetcars needed for America’s Cup now 16 months late (Market Street Railway Blog)
• Central Subway work starts amid problems (SFGate)
• Muni paid bonuses tied to inflated on-time rate (The Bay Citizen)

Take a closer look at this photo: can you tell what it is made of? New York Artist Nina Boesch has created some amazing stuff using metro cards as collage material. Here’s how she creates her collages.

As the name suggest, metro card collages are made from cut up pieces of used and expired MetroCards® – New York City subway tickets. All artworks are one-of-a-kind and vary in size from 5″x7″ to 40″x30″. Nina Boesch uses the front of MetroCards® for color collages (yellow, orange, blue and black), and the back for grayscale collages (black and white). The collages depict anything from landmarks and objects to portraits and typography, and are almost always New York related.

You can see the rest of her pieces on her website, Metro Card Yourself. Nina’s collages are exhibited at The Bean in the East Village, New York, until the end of July.

Thanks to local transit card artist Tofu St. John for the tip!

p.s.  More cool stuff on our Muni Art Pinterest Board.