Muni Cute Overload
Rider Joey sent in this picture taken on the 45 the other day. Yeah yeah yeah, say what you will about muzzles and stuff, but I am such a sucker for little furry animals. I mean, look at that face!
Month: April 2010
iPhoneography: BART busking
Photo courtesy iPhoneography. One in a series by Flickr user zphone.
BART busking fascinates hell out of me. Since I was a kid and visited big cities, I was always enthralled with musicians, etc., who did their thing for the throes, the passersby. Most of them are really good, if you give them more than a passing listen. Do that sometime, eh?
File under: Projects I’d love to undertake, in some alternative life where I have time to undertake more projects.
Reminder: Go offline tomorrow at Breaking It Down
Photo of Tony Long from Muni Diaries Live! Riders With Drinks, June 2009, by RumNose
We realize that some of you (like us) plan. Some even obsess about it (like us). This post isn’t for you, though feel free to delight in it if you’d like.
No, this post is for the beloved rest of you out in internetia who’ve somehow (god bless ya) made it this far into the future and still don’t know what you’re doing this weekend. Again, we love you. And we want to see you at the Make-Out Room tomorrow night in what promises to be the best edition yet of Muni Diaries Live. This time we’re calling it Breaking It Down (perhaps for obvious reasons?), and check out this lineup:
Comedian Will Franken
Fun(ny) guy Johnny FunCheap
BART operator Kelly Beardsley
Vero Majano of Mission Media Archives
The delightful music of McPuzo and Trotsky
And last but not least, the Cock-Ts will return to … get us all in the mood.
And off-stage, Silvi from The Poetry Store will be our resident poet of the evening! Look for her with her type writer so you can get a poem written just for you.
As before, there’ll be a portion of the event in which we call for your (shortish) stories to be read on-stage. And we’ll ask the audience to use specially designed buzzers applause to judge who’ll win some seriously awesome prizes.
What can we say? Oh, we can say that it’s free to get in. But please tip your bartender! See you there!
Muni Diaries Live! Breaking It Down
Friday, April 23, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. No cover!
Make-Out Room — 3225 22nd Street
Routes serving the area: BART 24th St. Station, 12, 14, 22, 27, 33, 48, 49, 67
Pedestrian dies after being struck by Muni bus (w/updates)
Update (4:19 p.m.): SF Gate has photos from the scene, including a couple of the driver of the bus that struck the victim. The driver looks horribly upset, understandably.
Update (4:00 p.m.): Per commenter JimmyD, SF Gate reports that the victim in today’s accident has died from his injuries.
Update (3:38 p.m.): MTA’s final update:
As of 1:33 p.m., the incident described below has cleared.
Clarification: A pedestrian was involved in the accident, not a bicyclist. The location was Mission Street between Main and Beale streets. Both bus routes rerouted around the scene in both directions using Market Street: from Main Street to Market Street to 4th Street and back to Mission Street.
The pedestrian was transported to SFGH. Both Operators were also injured. The Operator of the 14 Mission was transported to UC Medical Center and the Operator of the 14 Mission Limited was transported to St. Francis.
Both Operators will be tested for drugs and alcohol and placed on non-driving status according to standard procedure.
Video has been provided to SFPD for their investigation
Update (1:41 p.m.): For clarification, we do not know definitely whether the victim was a pedestrian or cyclist. MTA reported that he was a cyclist; multiple eye-witnesses say pedestrian.
Update (12:55 p.m.): Reader Jimmy sends us a photo of the scene, above.
Update (11:48 a.m.): From MTA:
As of approximately 11 a.m., service on the 14 Mission and the 14 Mission Limited in the outbound (east) direction has been disrupted due to an accident at Mission and Beale streets involving a 14 Mission trolley bus and a 14 Mission Limited bus and a bicyclist.
The 14 Mission route is switching back at 4th Street. The 14 Mission Limited is routing around the scene from Main Street to Market Street to 4th Street and back to its regular route on Mission Street.
SFPD and SFFD are on the scene.
Updates will follow.
Update (11:38 a.m.): SF Appeal has an eyewitness account, along with a photo of the scene.
Update (11:35 a.m.): KGO radio says: “Man trapped under the Muni bus was jaywalking. Taken away via ambulance, witnesses say he wasn’t moving at all.”
Update (11:25 a.m.): KCBS now has a story up on its site. Person still apparently trapped, attempts to jack bus up are under way. Person trapped reportedly a pedestrian.
Update (11:23 a.m.): @TUSK81 has an eye-witness account.
Original post: KCBS News reports that there is a person trapped under a bus at Mission and Beale with life-threatening injuries. No word from MTA yet. KGO radio also has a tweet about the accident. And Twitterer @sbermo confirms. We’ll update as we learn more.
Photo Diary: What are you rethinking?
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.
Freestylin’ 49
Photo by Flickr user Transguyjay
Color me confused with a hint of annoyance, to be all angry-Muni-rider about it.
The gist: I get on a 49 at Van Ness and Oak, for my southbound journey into the Mish. Twice, at the same time of day, the same driver says that 14th Street will be the last stop. (Hint: it’s not supposed to be). A 14 or another 49 showed up both times before long. But it is cause for some mild WTF, particularly if it happens twice at the same time.
Sidenote: I’m all for a soft-spoken kinda guy, but this driver needs to speak up when he says that 14th Street will be the last stop. As expected, come 14th Street, a few people get off. But 20 other people sit confused as fellow passengers assume the task of explaining that this is indeed the final stop.
Also: The first time it happened, there was no indication on the bus’s marquee that it was ending its route at 14th Street. The second time, the sign was in that in-between-signs state. Like, maybe it says 14th, but wait … *hates self*
My understanding was that truncated lines are one-offs; they’re thrown in to thin the crowd of everyone that couldn’t get the earlier bus because it didn’t show up. So? Why’s this happening? Theories, whether serious or comedic fiction, welcome.