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Fill This Bus With More People
Photo by Troy Holden

A few weeks ago we asked you how the Muni service cuts were affecting you. Daishin had this completely unexpected outcome from the service cuts:

Yesterday I was forced to take the 49 up Van Ness from Market because I didn’t feel well enough to walk the several blocks to my house. The bus was so crowded no one could move. I was standing next to a lovely beautiful young woman with bracelets up and down her arms and wonderful tats on her bare shoulders.

She kept smiling sweetly at me and tried to make eye contact. After a few minutes it dawned on me that she was totally fucked up on something so I asked her if she was wasted. She smiled even more broadly and said, “YES! I’m just glad to see that there are plenty of young people in San Francisco still getting stoned and riding Muni like we used to do in the 1960s, albeit it’s a hell of a lot more uncomfortable these days.”

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Weekend photos: Ready For Close-Up

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14 Mission Ferries
Photo by Flickr user Brandon Doran

I’ve waited a whole week for this: Jeff is on his man-vacation, so this weekend I hope y’all don’t mind that I change the Muni Diaries background to something frilly that involves cupcakes, unicorns, kittens, and ballons, all in pink.

It’s going to be so awesome.

I know, right?

In real Muni news this week:

– Paul Rose is the new SFMTA spokesperson (SF Chronicle)
– City’s 311 customer service line works, and Muni pays (Bay Citizen)
– Muni to vote on stricter drug-testing guidelines (ABC 7)
– Nat Ford “disappointed and perplexed” By Muni Drivers’ Rejection Of Concessions Intended To Restore Service (SF Appeal)
– Muni service cuts appear to be staying put (SF Examiner)
– Report: SFPD’s New Approach to Crime on Muni “Promising” (Streetsblog)
– Blame, Calls for Revote and Contract Details in Wake of Muni Drivers Vote (Streetsblog)
– Muni Shell Game Perps Still at It; SFPD, SFMTA Slow/No Response (ABC 7, Muni Diaries)
– Police crack down on Muni crime (SF Examiner)
– Push to Organize SF Transit Riders Proving Difficult (SF Weekly)
– Muni boss says operators getting bad info (SF Examiner)
– Clipper Card Transition for Bay Area Transit is Now Official (Streetsblog)
– SFMTA gets a new spokesman (City Insider/SFGate)

Enjoy the photos and your weekend. And keep the stories, sketches, videos, photos, and tweets coming!

Rust in Peace
Photo by Flickr user KayVeeInc

12:27am, Powell Station
Photo by Flickr user Vivian Chen

cable car miniature
Photo by Flickr user captin_nod

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Sketch-A-Passenger

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recent MUNI sketches

To pass the time on the bus, you might busy yourself with your phone, your iPod, read a book, Tweet us about what you see, or here’s an idea: Rider Joaquin Jutt sketches what’s around him. He sent us the above quick sketch of his fellow passengers on the 22.

I know I’ve seen several artistically-inclined people sketching on the bus. If you use your Muni time doodling away on your sketch pad, won’t you please send us your masterpiece?

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Video diary: ‘So determined to sit in that goddam seat’

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Here’s another video shot at last week’s opening of Outbound at Secession Art and Design. Tracy told us about a Muni ride early in his SF tenure. In a borrowed tuxedo, he witnessed what can happen when two women argue over who gets the one open seat on the bus. And what the rest of us do when that happens, sadly.

Other video diaries from the Outbound opening:
– Mary: The boombox vs. The New Yorker
– Zore: What Happens When a Chicagoan Gets on Muni

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‘Poker Face’ Sing-Along on F-Market

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Muni 1052 FW 2
Photo by Flickr user The Holy Hand Granade

100 Muni Stories“And baby when it’s love, if it’s not rough, it isn’t fun.” We flippin’ love it when random strangers start singing together on Muni.

This funny experience happened to me and a group of friends on the eve of Valentine’s Day. We were on the F Market streetcar at Fisherman’s Wharf and the streetcar was very crowded. My friends were from the East Bay and have never experienced Muni life, but this streetcar ride made it very interesting.

A man in the back of the train was very loud and kept saying random things, like “KEEP YOUR BAGS AND WALLETS CLOSE TO YOU.” I thought, “Oh God, not one of these rides again.” But my friends were actually having a good time, enjoying his loudness.

The train was moving slowly out of the Wharf area and the man in the back of the streetcar started singing parts of a song. Well, he was combining two of Lady Gaga’s songs, “Bad Romance” and “Poker Face,” and it was only a small section of the songs. My friends and I couldn’t stop laughing, nor could the other passengers.

Suddenly, my friends started singing “Poker Face” from the beginning. I joined in and then more passengers joined our choir group. The song ended when the man in the back totally killed the song by singing that small section out loud and off-key. Things were going pretty okay until the man walked over to the front of the streetcar. By now he was being really loud, announcing that “I believe in Satan” and started to get closer to me.

My friends seemed a little freaked out, but soon it was our stop, and we got out of that streetcar quick. This was an experience that we would never forget.

P-p-p-poker face p-p-poker face…Got another Muni story to share? Do it here.

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