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Image by Give a Minute
The campaign is called Give a Minute. It’s a pretty and well-functioning way for CTA to reach out to its constituency. And Give a Minute is active in Memphis, New York, and San Jose, also. Yes, San Jose. We hope our own SFMTA is taking notice.
And so, to plagiarize, “Hey, San Francisco, what would encourage you to walk, bike, and take Muni more often?”
Thx: Daily Dish
Photo by Jessica Palopoli, Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved.
We were supposed to have our wedding out at Fort Miley – near Land’s End – with the Golden Gate Bridge and all that in the background. Then the weather surprised us by raining all day and we had to move our ceremony – and photoshoot – to our reception venue, at the Verdi Club (on Mariposa and Potrero).
In the months leading up to the wedding I had done some thinking about where we would do the photoshoot if the wedding rained out, so I’d mused that we could use the Muni yard, which is a half-block away from the Verdi Club – as a backdrop. It was graphically interesting and very San Francisco! We were lucky enough to have a short break in the deluge, long enough to take a few photos.
The Muni pictures are awesome and definitely showcase our city, even if it’s not in the way I’d originally planned. Oh – and we wanted to actually go in the yard and take photos by the buses, but the security guy at the gate of the yard wouldn’t let us.
I guess we can rest assured that the Muni yard is pretty secure. Thanks, Heather and Ed!
Photo by Jessica Palopoli, Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved.
Photo by Steve Rhodes
Don Asmussen, SFGate’s Bad Reporter, recently spun quite the imaginative yarn: Muni: Legacy. In it, Asmussen tells of heroic feats, mysterious disappearances, Clipper fails, and, finally, victory? It’s accompanied by some nifty imagery, also.
Read the entire strip here.
A wave of great photos showing riders on Muni arrived in our Flickr group over the last week. We often highlight photos that showcase Muni vehicles, but in the end, we’re really all about the people who rely on the transit system day in and day out.
Here’s a recap of the week’s Muni news:
And with that, we wish you a safe, happy, prosperous, and meltdown-free 2011! Enjoy these embiggened versions of the photos above and your weekend … and don’t forget: Muni is free tonight from 8 p.m. through 6 a.m. tomorrow morning.
Photo by mikedthorn
Photo by Brian_Brooks
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch
Photo by KayVee.INC
Photo by davitydave
Photo by Brandon Doran
Photo by Steve Rhodes
Photo by angryf
2010 will be memorable for me for many reasons. But the two biggest are definitely my wedding and the Giants’ World Series win. We ran a photo of a newlywed couple on Muni back in October, but the photo itself just wasn’t as compelling for me as the one above, by zanthonyz. It had been such a long wait for so many faithful Giants fans. The payoff for them is sweeter, I hope.
And of course Muni is SF magnified times infinity.
That’s perhaps why it was so refreshing and uplifting to learn about Muni operator Tammy. Rider Greg shared his story of Tammy’s last days driving the 33-Stanyan (she now drives the 24-Divisadero) back in May. And oh how it resonated.
Nearly eight months later, it’s still my favorite diary of 2010. What’s yours?
