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Hey, we’re only 36 years late on this, what?
30-plus-year BART enthusiast Brian shared his drawing, from around 1980, of what BART would look like if he were god.
Highlights include:
Far as I’m concerned, the only thing missing here is a Vallejo stop for Discovery Kingdom (née Marine World).
Bravo, exalted one, bravo!
Did you see this elegant harpist at the Montgomery Street station the other day? Another harpist, last seen here, was delighting his fellow commuters on the bus with his mini harp! We’re all for buskers, like this chamber music quartet, this cellist at the 16th Street BART station, and especially this musician with this very unusual instrument.
Thanks to @commutelife for submitting this Muni moment to us on Instagram.
Things that were better in the ’70s: Star Wars, hair, and … BART uniforms. Check out this amazing photo from BART’s Twitter account (@SFBART). These BART uniforms from the 1970s might be even better than flight attendant uniforms. The bows, the super fly collar, and that fabulous tie. Can we please bring them back?
Want more groovy blast from the past? Check out this 1980s Muni metro birthday party (we even have a video!)
Where did San Francisco’s streetcar lines go before our time? Designer Chris Arvin used information from the SFMTA photo archive, OpenSFHistory, and two other historic books to create an interactive map of our city’s public transit history. You can choose a decade—1940s or 1960s and hover over the map to see old streetcar routes. Arvin created the map using MapBox.
When you hover over the map, you might see some unfamiliar streetcar route names (some of them featured on Randolph Ruiz’s 1932 street car map).
Arvin shared some thoughts with Hoodline about what motivated him to create the map:
Since I’ve moved to San Francisco and fallen in love with the city, I’ve caught glimpses of the history of our public transit in many places—SFMTA’s posters at transit stops, sites like Old SF (and Hoodline!) and even seeing the partial remnants of tracks in the road in Potrero. There’s something I love about seeing old photos of street corners I immediately recognize, but in such a different context.
Gotta love people who love San Francisco! You can read the rest of the interview on Hoodline and play with the map here.
Update/correction: Cynthia has let us know that the bird seen above is a raven, not a crow. The headline stands, though, because I said it does.
She wrote about her experience with the bird on Muni over on Medium.com. Have a read!
Original post: Via the Twitters, Muni rider Cynthia had a rather unexpected fellow passenger over the weekend:
“TFW a crow flies into your bus and becomes your new best friend.”
All I can think is, What would I do/think if a crow wanted to friend me? Would it mean I was at death’s door and the bird was just biding time until he could devour my entrails? More like, WHAT ELSE COULD IT POSSIBLY MEAN?
In San Francisco Embarcadero Bart station today, officers pinned down black youth & punched him in the face #BLM pic.twitter.com/zNHlRBwphM
— William Fitzgerald (@william_fitz) July 30, 2016
Update (10:10 a.m.): A BART spokesperson said in a series of tweets that there had been a report of a possible armed robbery and that a 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer. The case has been referred to internal affairs for investigation and apparently there is footage of the incident. At least one of the officers involved was wearing a body camera.
@AmyAlex63 call of “possible armed robbery” w/ detailed description of suspect. 22 yo booked resisting,battery of officer. Case w/ IA now.
— SFBART (@SFBART) July 30, 2016
@AmyAlex63 PD reports there is also officer worn camera footage of incident. This will all be part of IA investigation.
— SFBART (@SFBART) July 30, 2016
Original post: In the video above and other videos found on the Hunger For Justice SF Facebook page, BART police are seen last night subduing a young black man in handcuffs at the Embarcadero BART station. The officers then punched the young man while he was on the ground in handcuffs.
In response to Friday’s incident, Hunger For Justice SF has planned a protest today at 2 p.m. at Embarcadero Station to demand that SFPD release the young men.