When’s Maru going to drive Muni?

Images: Maru’s blog

Maru is hugely popular with two-thirds of your editors  — we’re working on the straggling 33.3%. While reviewing the latest from the king of boxes, I saw that today, he’s in transit mode. Per the above picture’s caption:

Maru: Maru Bus departs soon. Please get on in a hurry.

And then:

Driver Maru: Where do you want to go to?

He even asks you where you want to go!

Important questions:

1) When is Maru going to drive my bus? It shouldn’t be a problem if licenses are still optional.

2) Will he get you to work on time? He seems to have one eye on the schedule at all times.

Cats love Muni, by the way:

Muni news: Two-way McAllister, unlicensed Muni drivers

Boeing LRV 1320
Photo by Octoferret

  • Portion Of McAllister Street To Open To 2-Way Traffic (KTVU)
  • BART holds open houses to get feedback on design concepts for new trains (BART.gov)
  • Muni Is Shelling Out $32.8 Million on Collisions (SF Weekly)
  • Unlicensed Muni drivers are still employed (SF Examiner)
  • Woman Clings to Life After Falling from Civic Center BART Wall (SFist)
  • Seizure interrupts would-be Muni thief’s robbery attempt (SF Examiner)

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Muni News: Old Muni stop on the chopping block, less $ for new SFMTA chief

Boston Elevated 1059
Photo by franciscophile

  • SFPD Says They’ve Recovered Gun From Confrontation That Killed Man During Muni Fare Inspection (SF Appeal)
  • City Looking to Demolish Old Dolores Park Muni Stop (Uptown Almanac)
  • BART Staff Opposes Rush Hour Bike Access on Rear Cars (Streetsblog SF)
  • A Response to District 5 Diary (Central Subway Blog)
  • Tenderloin bus stop under fire for sheltering drunks, druggies in SF (SF Examiner)
  • Salary of new Muni chief to be less than predecessor (SF Examiner)
  • Muni moves to curb Clipper card fare cheats (SF Examiner)

Transpo Shopping Spree

The Golden Gate Bridge is well and fine as an emblem of San Francisco souvenir. But if you really want to show some local pride, the Muni worm is where it’s at. We went Etsy-diving and found some awesome stuff for your Monday morning shopping needs.

1. Wanna write down your Muni stories the old fashioned way? Check out the custom Muni notebook above made by Muni Diaries reader Christa.

2. More Muni shirts! Check out Sex Pigeon’s Muni shirts. (HT: SFist)

3. Watercolor painting of Polk Gulch transit. This beauty is a bit more expensive, but click on the listing to see the awesome hand-painted details.

 

4. Turn the lights on! Light switch panel covered with Muni transfers. Pretty neat idea, and I thought I had seen it all.

5. The same artist who made the light switch plate also made an amazing collage of the Golden Gate bridge out of Muni transfers.

6. Wood Routing by Dave Marcoullier Designs in solid cherry. Very cool.

7. And of course, don’t forget our Muni Diaries Long Live the Fast Pass shirt, modeled here by Tara. These shirts and baby onesies are also available at Secession Art and Design on Mission and 30th Street. Our Fast Pass Clipper Card holders will be back on Etsy in a few weeks, but if you want to own one now, you can buy them at Bay Crossings at the Ferry Building and at the Embarcadero station!

Wanna buy more stuff? Check out our other merchandise roundup post and Faern’s Twitter-sourced Muni transfer art.

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