Transit News: Muni hiring shenanigans, Caltrain forecast, BART escalators, free AC Transit passes

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  • Despite budget deficit, Muni spends $1 million to hire more drivers (The Bay Citizen)
  • Caltrain moves from doom to boom, but forecast could get gloomy (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Central Subway tunnel construction to begin (SFGate)
  • BART Escalator Watch 2012: 10 Repaired, 19 To Go (SFist)
  • AC Transit to give out free passes on June 26 (SFGate)
  • Report: Modernizing Caltrain Could Generate 9,600 Jobs (SF Appeal)
  • Two Arrested For Setting Castro Muni Station Fires (SFist)
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No, No, Don’t Get Up: Cozy on BART

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So, this guy. Perhaps the most This Guy of all This Guys on BART.

Snapped this one later in the 6-o’clock hour: toward the end of the evening rush. The train wasn’t sardines-crowded, but there were several people entering, exiting, and standing around.

In other words, maybe don’t sit like this on BART, in the interest of seat-having for fellow passengers.

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The Uneventful Muni Ride

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100 Muni StoriesThis tweet made me think of public transit planners, the people who ostensibly want a system of vehicles going from various Points A to B without much happening in between. Yeah, right.

@PickUpABook: Nothing eventful happened on my commute today. With muni, sometimes that’s the best you can hope for

We hear you. Although there are some experiences we hope for.

For the next few months, Muni Diaries is presenting 100 Days, 100 Muni Stories, our way of celebrating Muni’s centennial year. Send us your contribution, or tag your tweets #100MuniStories.

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Burrito Justice: Loop the T-Third

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Image by Burrito Justice, base map via Stamen)

Our pal over at Burrito Justice has a “modest proposal” when it comes to the construction of the Central Subway:

Unless we see a change in the SFMTA’s attitude, we are left with no choice but to hijack the tunnel boring machine as it exits its tunnel at Columbus and Union and continue boring tunnels.

Simply catching sight of the tunnel-boring machine that will soon bore its way under Fourth Street set Mr. Justice’s synapses a-firin’. He lays his plan out in excruciating detail, then asks for a show of hands.

Our hands are in the air, sir. Enthusiastically.

Read the whole proposal at Burrito Justice.

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