Muni Diaries Live this Friday

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Muni Diaries Live! Oct 29, 2010

Hey, what are you doing this Friday? I’ll tell you: You’re coming to Muni Diaries Live at the Make-Out Room. We have an excellent lineup of storytellers and a surprise guest. A hint: he’s a Muni insider. You’ll have to come and find out who he is.

If you bring a story to tell on stage, you might win a prize from one of our awesome sponsors, including Anthony’s Cookies, Chronicle Books, The Summit,  Metronome Dance Collective, and Market Street Railway.

And you can rock some SF love and shop with our sponsor Secession Art and Design — the lovely Eden will be on hand to sell transit-themed baby onesies and t-shirts.

So pen us in, write us on a Post-It, tap us into your iPhone, enter us into your Google Calendar, do whatever you gotta do to join the fun and share a drink with your fellow riders. We can’t wait!

Recaps of Muni Diaries Live! one, two, and three.

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Giants Fans On Muni

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Little Giants Fans
Photo by jkoshi

Hello World Series! We have some guesses of the preferred transportation option for Giants fans. Our Flickr pool is eagerly waiting for photos of spirited Muni riders. Or you can tweet or email us your best shot! We found lots more photos of Giants fanatics dressed in orange and black on the bus. Check them out.

San Francisco Giants fans before the secondplayoff game2
Photo by Steve Rhodes

The Taste of Victory
Photo by jkoshi

San Francisco Cable Car supporting the Giants 1
Photo by Steve Rhodes


Photo by @williefdiaz

Giants beat Phillys 6-5 in game 4 of National League Championship Series 2010 3
Photo by Steve Rhodes

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Weekend Photos: Day and Night

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Inside MUNI
Photo by FlickringAbility

We spend a good portion of every day (and night) getting from point A to point B on the bus, and it’s time to gab all about it…in person! Next Friday is our fourth Muni Diaries Live at the Make-Out Room. We have an exciting new addition to our lineup: Andrew Lam, NPR commentator, the author of East Eats West, and two-time winner of Literary Death Match. We’ve also got a surprise guest: an ex-Muni insider. You’ll have to come and find out who it is. So permanent marker this in your calendars for next Friday — we want to see your happy faces.

This week, Muni was disrupted by a signal problem at the Embarcadero station, a fire on Hyde street, gas leak at the Castro station, and a police car crash (into a utility pole).

In other Muni news:

I unearthed some terrific photos from our Flickr pool last night, from Christina’s morning shot inside an N to FlickringAbility’s gorgeous foggy night photo of two Muni operators. Enjoy these photos, and have a great weekend!

Morning view from the N
Photo by Christina

happiest black hole
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch

MUNI 1015
Photo by carwashguy_99

zero emissions vehicle
Photo by Bhautik Joshi

Conversation between MUNI employees
Photo by FlickringAbility

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Chicken’s day out (not that chicken)

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This chicken was granted clemency, it would seem. Muni rider Kevin has the deets:

I saw this chicken contentedly stowing a ride in a passenger’s jacket on the F. The man and his female companion appeared to be homeless, or at least the leathery orange skin and general funk made me think they had spent a lot of time outside without baths lately. The woman became agitated when another passenger joked about frying the chicken up. She complained to the chicken handler that this was “like talking about frying up a dog.” So apparently the chicken was not intended for consumption.

As can be seen in the photo, the man gradually fell asleep, hunched over with the chicken in his lap. When their stop arrived, the woman had some trouble waking him. Strangely, the bird didn’t seem to mind being slept upon.

See how fun it is to share your Muni stories?

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Gas leak shuts down Castro station, reroutes several Muni lines

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Castro Street Station
Photo by Shannon K

SFMTA sent this service alert a few minutes ago:

As of 12:54 p.m., regular service on the following Muni bus routes has been affected due to an SFPD evacuation caused by a gas leak in the vicinity of 18th and Castro streets. Also, Muni Metro service both inbound and outbound is not stopping at Castro Station as a precaution requested by the SFPD.

24 Divisadero
33 Stanyan
35 Eureka
37 Corbett

Service on these routes must reroute around the area until the evacuation has been cleared.

Muni Metro customers are advised to use Church Street station instead of Castro at this time.

PG&E has been called to the scene.

Updates will follow.

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