Even doggies are celebrating this season
Not that that’s anything new. Photo by @belle2061.
SFMTA to open new sales kiosk at Geary/Presidio Ave.
Photo by Thomas Hawk
According to a release from SFMTA, on Dec. 27, a new sales kiosk will be opened at Presidio and Geary. Riders will be able to buy Clipper cards and all other types of tickets, including Lifeline Passes.
Here’s the text of the release:
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees the Municipal Railway (Muni) and all surface transportation in the City, today announced that it will open a new Muni sales location at the corner of Presidio Avenue and Geary Boulevard on December 27. The $829,000 project, paid for by grants, includes two new sales kiosks. The second kiosk will replace the current one at the Powell and Market Cable Car turnaround.
Locating the kiosk on Geary Boulevard at Presidio Avenue will provide an additional sales outlet for Clipper cards and all other Muni fare media, including Lifeline Passes.
“The SFMTA continues to seek out ways to improve our customer service,” said Nathaniel P. Ford Sr., Executive Director/CEO. “The volume of customers that passes the location on Geary near Masonic makes this an ideal spot to expand our efforts to the west side of town.”
The proposed location on Geary Boulevard is at the intersection of multiple high-volume Muni routes that serve the western portion of the City, including the 38 Geary and 43 Masonic. This location is also within blocks of four other major east-west Muni routes including the 2 Clement, 21 Hayes, 31 Balboa and the 5 Fulton.
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Weekend Photos, or The Weekend Photos
Photo by Brandon Doran
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- Time to Switch from Muni Monthly Passes to 31-Day Passes? (Akit’s Complaint Department)
- Teen Gets Probation for J-Church Gay Bashing (SF Appeal)
- Clipper Card Tagging Error Rate Rises, As Do Concerns About BART Pass Phaseout (BCN via SF Appeal)
- BART to Study Feasibility of Running Later Weekend Trains (StreetsblogSF)
- Clipper: Big Brother’s Best Friend? (Mission Local)
On Muni Time Capsule this week, we posted a service-frequency pamphlet from 1977, along with great info on what Muni was like 33 years ago. Check it out, and don’t forget to bookmark/RSS Muni Time Capsule while you’re there.
Enjoy these photos and your weekend!
Photo by Justin Beck
Photo by Troy Holden
Photo by Chris Saulit
Muni average speed visualized in graph (update)
Update (7:54 a.m. Friday): Fischer went and produced another graph, above, this time “with less visual noise.”
Previously:
By Eric Fischer. Who else? Looks a lot closer to a 9 mph average than 8.1 mph, dontcha think?
Immortalize the Muni Fast Pass!
The Muni Diaries Fast Pass T-shirts designed by Nate of New Skool not only make good holiday gifts — they’re also a great way to show your love of the now half-dead San Francisco tradition that was the Fast Pass. Fast Pass cards were a tactile experience (nice to hold those flimsy things in your hands or have them get wet and stop working, right?). But also, discovering each month what the passes’ two colors would be was, shall we say, one of the greater joys of the overall Muni experience?
And now you can wear that experience and remind everyone around you how colorful and cool things were “back in the day.”
Until December 31, the T-shirts are on sale at our Muni Diaries Etsy store: $22 plus shipping.
Also, Secession Art and Design at 3361 Mission St. (across from the 30th St. Safeway in Bernal) carries hoodies, onesies, and some sizes of shirts we’ve run out of. If you’re looking for something to do tomorrow night, drop by Secession’s holiday party Friday from 6:30 to 9:30, get some homebrew, cupcakes, and Fast Pass gear!
Back door black hole
Photo by freya.gefn
But, sometimes, someone falls off the bus.
This girl was with a handful of friends, and they got off at a Van Ness stop, I forget which one. Something north of Geary. It was Tuesday, and a little rain was still coming down. She was the last one of her crew out. She slipped and fell down and onto the back stairs. Her friends and a guy standing near the door helped her out, but she seemed to bang up her knee and suffer at least a little ego bruising. I had never seen someone fall off the bus, but it reminded me to step carefully on Muni during rainy season. Falling off the bus is so much worse than regular falling, amirite, folks?
The driver stopped the bus and checked to see if she was OK, as I patiently waited for someone to get angry and demand that we get moving again. But that didn’t happen and everyone was deemed OK.
We went along until another stop, and another gal got her grocery bag stuck in the same area, in some no-man’s-land between the back row of seats and the doorway. She was freed after some collective shouting of “back door!” (which actually worked this time), but it made me wonder why this black hole was eating everyone passing through it. User error? Just one of those days?
Bonus: Obvious-Visiting Guy asks his Obvious-Local Friend, “Does shit like this happen on the bus all the time??”
Welcome, friend. And hold on.