Muni Diaries

Were you lucky enough to learn the ins and outs of driving a Muni bus when Driver Doug graced the stage at Muni Diaries Live not once, but twice? No? Well, lemme just tell you, you missed out. Dude has the best insights on how to drive and ride the bus in San Francisco. He’s also written books on the topic.

Now, he’s showing the photos that the art in those books is based on. Here are the details:

Nowhere in Particular: Art by Driver Doug will be showing August 18th through September 19th at the Castro Country Club, 4058 18th Street.

A word from the artist:

“It’s been three years since “The Dao of Doug: The Art of Driving a Bus” has been published and I have learned so much about editing, marketing, podcast and audio recording. So I thought, what is the next best thing I can do to put myself out there and show my creative self to you? The answer came back through my friends in recovery. Post an art show of wall art from photos used as illustrations in my book mixed with natural scenes of beauty from places visited when I’m off the bus and away from traffic. 

On the wall are canvas wrap and semi-gloss photo prints of various sizes jam packed on a wall like cars on a freeway. I hope you like the images I have selected and let’s talk. I hope to create an opportunity to hang wall art at a reasonable price. 8″ x 10″ prints start at $50, with larger print collage semi-gloss photo frames of 20″ x 30″ available for $200.”

Photo by Kevin Wong

What do you need to know about transit this week? Well:

• SF public invited to help shape future of city subways (SFGate):
  Everyone has a complaint about public transit, but do you have ideas about how it can be better? The city wants to crowdsource your ideas starting today.
• Market Street Muni Shelter Lecture Ends In Beating With Cane (SFist). Things didn’t end so well for the man who told folks partying at a Muni shelter to keep it down.
• Mission Street ‘red lane’ turn restrictions relaxed (SFBay.ca). Two of the six forced right-turns — along Mission Street’s red carpet lanes, as we like to call them — will be removed after merchants protest.

The fantastic inside-the-beast photo is by @telliprego on Instagram. Follow @munidiaries on Instagram to see more.