Random stranger’s Muni note on how to improve your day
This reminder of how to make your day (and the day of everyone around you) a little better came from @gaedepa on Twitter.
P.S. Here’s another worthy note found on Muni!
Should the Central Subway extend to Fisherman’s Wharf? SFMTA to study the question
Should the Central Subway go all the way to Fisherman’s Wharf instead of just ending at North Beach? That’s the $1.2 million question that SFMTA wants to answer with a new study, reports the Examiner. Current plans for the Central Subway would extend the T-Third from the Caltrain station at 4th and King to stations at 4th and Brennan, Yerba Buena, Union Square, then Chinatown (jog your memory here). The new study will help determine a plan for possibly extending the line to Fisherman’s Wharf.
SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin told the Examiner that the proposed study will explore “more community work and more technical work, to tee it up into preliminary engineering into environmental impact and analysis.”
Though it’s just a proposal (set to be voted on by the board of directors in April), the supervisors are into it. Supervisors Scott Weiner and Aaron Peskin both expressed support, and neighborhood organizations in Fisherman’s Wharf told the Examiner that extension would help bring more workers into the area:
Troy Campbell, head of the Fisherman’s Wharf Community Benefits District, told the Examiner last year that when it comes to businesses at the wharf, there’s been an “exodus of minimum-wage workers in The City.”
Workers need transit options, Campbell said, and the lack of crosstown transit options to Fisherman’s Wharf makes attracting workers like cooks, bussers and shop workers increasingly difficult.
What do you think? The Examiner has more on the story here.
Photo by Patrick Nouhailler
Time-lapse video of impressive portrait on Muni
Here’s another reason why we should all look up from our phones every once in a while on the bus: read something, look out the window, or make some art. This time-lapse video of an artist drawing an impressive portrait on Muni — in color, no less — is courtesy of George Cwirko-Godycki (find him on @insta or on Etsy).
Other ways art make Muni rides so much better:
A surprise gift you actually like
Video: Cirque du Soleil action at BART stop
When you’re incredibly flexible and have a yoga mat while waiting for BART, naturally this is what you do! This video at Montgomery BART station came from Harry McCracken on Vine.
Other times BART made people get on their dancing feet:
How does Frank Chu get his signs around town, you ask?
Ever wonder how signster* and SF celebrity Frank Chu gets his amazing, informative, and oh-so-San Francisco signs down to Market Street? Muni, of course!
More of Frank Chu on the Internet:
Frank Chu Wikipedia page
Frank Chu Reddit AMA
h/t Muni rider Mike
Claiming coinage of this word!
Now you can wear your Muni paper transfer pride
Remember wind-up clocks? Manual cash registers? Muni paper transfers? The good folks at Studio Nico printed T-shirts and hoodies want you to wear your nostalgic pride.
Hey #SF, feeling nostalgic? We just printed up a bunch of our #sfmuni transfer tees and sweatshirts. Come snag one at @fleetwood_sf or online at studionicosf.com!
Other Muni wearables:
New Shirt Combines Muni with My Neighbor Totoro
New Shirt Perfectly Describes the Muni Sickout
New sweatshirt features Muni worm, your mom
New Shirt Explains Your Relationship With Muni
Found: The Most Appropriate NSFW Muni Shirt
h/t @studionico