Animated! Catching Muni at Powell 08.09.11
While I waited in the Powell station yesterday for an N train that never seems to come, I did manage to capture a series of photos showing other people catching the train. I turned the photos into a .gif.
Awesome new activity while you wait for the bus. Thanks, Doug!
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BART Music Diary: Powell Station 07.14.11
We’ve also featured some amazing photos of BART Musicians earlier this year, including my favorite cello quartet, also at the Powell station.
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Photo Diary: What are you rethinking? 04.21.10
Tee hee. A little something to get yer day started.
Rider James snapped this picture at the Powell Street Station. Perhaps the vandal was referring to the MTA board’s latest vote Tuesday to continue service cuts (Streetsblog SF) well into the 2011 fiscal year, which begins this summer, and 2012. A 10 percent service reduction will affect all Muni routes beginning May 8, 2010.
Sex and Muni: Odd Bedfellows 03.10.10
The shaved-headed Muni Fare Inspector from hell 09.14.09
Photo by Flickr user Keisuke Omi
This delightful tale came to us from Muni rider Daishin:
I had the interesting and bizarre experience of meeting and engaging with the shaved-headed Muni fare inspector from hell. I would like to use her name but I might get sued by the Muni union.
It was a calm weekday afternoon this summer when I was accosted by this rather heavy-set youngish-looking fare inspector on the escalator coming out of Powell Street Station. She had a shaved head and looked a little like my Kung Fu male instructor. She asked for my proof of purchase, which I showed her. She then made a comment about my appearance. I think she thought I was a terrorist since I have dark hair and eyes. Laughingly I told her I WAS a terrorist and that she was a nazi with her lack of hair and attitude. She screamed at me and started talking into her walkie-talkie. I then told her she was a “cop-wanna-be”, and was insane for calling me a terrorist. I also told her to call a real cop if she wanted to arrest me.
I’ve had other friends who’ve run into this beast from Muni and complain about her surly attitude and disrespectful ways. But of course it does no good. Muni employees can only be fired if they commit murder while on the job, and even then it would be a stretch to get them convicted. Fare inspectors are the scariest bunch of fools in Muni’s employee pool.
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BART bigwig blasts Muni’s big dig 07.31.08
The Powell Street station is in jeopardy of being damaged because of lax planning by engineers working on the Central Subway project, according to a BART board member, The Examiner‘s Tamara Barak Aparton reports.
– Beth W.
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