Faster Munis Make Zoooooom!!!
Well, if only it were so cut-and-dried. The Examiner‘s Mike Aldax has more on the proposal for Muni to run its trains at speeds up to 50 mph in certain stretches of the underground.
Month: January 2009
My first Muni crash
I was taking the J outbound from downtown to the outer reaches of Church Street a little after 6 p.m. for a class. The ride through the tunnels was mellow, the train was a little crowded, but everything seemed to be going OK. Then we came out of the tunnel, turned onto Church and got about halfway down the block toward Market Street when the driver slammed on her brakes and a bunch of people standing lurched forward.
I pulled off my iPod to see what would happen next.
“We’re gonna be here awhile,” the driver said. She did a few more things behind the wheel, then got out — and let us off the trolley if we wanted to get going.
I stepped down and only then did I see what had happened — the trolley had hit a van that looked like it had just pulled out from Safeway Mecca. The entire front of the train was implanted in the side of the van, which seemed to only have one occupant, the driver, who looked relatively uninjured.
I debated sticking around, but I really needed to get to my class. Passengers poured down to Market Street and made their way onward, talking on cellphones and telling other people about the event they’d just lived through. I hopped on the underground to Castro and took the 35 the rest of the way.
The odd thing is, after covering lots of Muni crashes, it was almost a non-event being in one (especially since nobody was hurt). It took me about two or three hours to realize, hey, I was just in a train accident.
I really hope that van driver is OK.
— Beth W.
Oh, the Legs of No Pants
Mac Watters, brave rider of the 8th annual pantless subway day, shares his pictures, including a scantily clad photo of himself:
(more photos after the jump)
Muni bus pictures with a different perspective
Muni rider Bhautik Joshi submitted these awesome photos he took at the Muni depot at Bryant street. Bhautik said he used “tilt shift” lenses for these pictures – these are lenses that let the photographer control the perspective in the photos. I love the effect. Thank you, Bhautik!
See more of Bhautik’s Muni pictures after the jump.
Muni Scofflaws, Beware!
The SFMTA is crackin’ down on yer ass. The Chronicle‘s Rachel Gordon reports on a near doubling of Muni’s catching fare evaders.
Photo: lukewho
Stacey’s Perishes … But There Are Others
Muni Diaries was, like many people, sad to learn that a souring economy and sluggish book sales in the electronic age have forced the imminent demise of a downtown literary wonderland — Stacey’s.
But we are quick to mourn, and we believe in picking up and moving on. Therefore, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind readers and riders that Green Apple in the Inner Richmond, our favorite librarie de la ville, is very much still open for business. You can get there on many Muni lines, including the 1, 2, 4, 38, 31, 33, and 44. Let us know if we missed any.
And let us know your favorite place to buy books in the city.
Photo: Raymond Yee