Will a Car-Free Market St. Make Muni More than Mediocre?

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Photo by: Kevin on Flickr

Can it be?

Streetsblog SF wrote about growing momentum for a car-free Market Street, once the planned repaving is redone in 2015. People are very much into the idea and some wonder if we can’t have it sooner than that, even.

Whenever it happens — and we’re crossing our fingers that it does — will this make our Market Street Muni run more efficiently? Perhaps there will still be late starts, downed power lines, and pedestrians/bicyclists/transit vehicles moving out of turn. But private cars sharing lanes with transit vehicles is a major piece of the puzzle, from where I stand (and sit, crawling on Van Ness heading home or Market Street on the way to work).

Sound off in the comments and let us know what you think.

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Muni Bus for Sale

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Got a spare $12K laying around? If you do, check out this steal: a 1969 GMC Fishbowl New Look bus with a rad orange Muni paint job is up for auction on eBay. You read that right: There’s a Muni bus for sale. We’ve told you about New Look buses on Muni Time Capsule before. Check out that post if you’re thinking about making a bid.

This isn’t the first bus on sale — the guys at SFist spotted another bus for sale last year. We’ve also seen a Muni fare box for sale on Craigslist. If you’re the one who bought that fare box, why not buy a bus to keep it company? Or maybe this is perfect for the kind of person who’d buy a Muni shelter?

We’ll do our best to keep up with the auction and get in touch with the winning bidder.

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Amazemagismic or Awful? Write Your Own Muni Review and Win $100

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Outbound train
Photo by Charles Nadeau

What do YOU think of your Muni line? Write your wittiest, most entertaining review of a Muni line on the Muni Google Places page. We have five prizes to give out to the funniest reviews, like this one that we just saw on the Muni Google Places page:

“The 27-Bryant is an amazemagasmic 5-star experience. For a paltry $2 cover charge you get non-stop entertainment for your many-stop trip from the TL crazies to the outer Mission crazies. Live poultry? Done! Mysterious smells and ownerless toddlers? Done! Ranting dude in a wheelchair going only 2 stops and then after deboarding gets up and walks around thanks to the MIRACLE OF MUNI? Done! Muni needs to have a full bar in the back of every bus, and then I’ll never leave.”

Ah, the miracle of Muni. You heard it here first.

Use the hashtag #munidiaries to let us know you want your review considered for the contest.

Muni Review Contest on Google Places
Where: Muni on Google Places
How: Write your wittiest review of a Muni line, using #munidiaries to enter the contest
Prize: Top prize: $100 to Hog and Rocks and see your review performed on stage by Anna Conda. We also have $50 gift certificates for four more reviewers so start mouthing off today!

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Muni News: Central Subway, Part-Time Drivers, Diminishing Protests

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  • Central Subway a division point for mayoral candidates (SF Examiner)
  • Transit Officials, Business Leaders Say Central Subway on Track to Secure Final Federal Funding (SF Appeal)
  • Suspect In Balboa Park BART Stabbing Rode Muni With Man He Attacked (SF Appeal)
  • Here come the part-time Muni operators! (City Insider/SFGate)
  • Students Crowd Muni, Riders Roll With It (Mission Local)
  • Majority of SF voters still back Central Subway, according to new poll (SF Examiner)
  • BART Protests Losing Attendance, Gaining Naked People (SFist)
  • Muni is the target of lawsuit by slain SF woman’s family (SF Examiner)
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