Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Are you a glass-half-empty type? Of course you are. You live in San Francisco. You ride Muni. You have company.
But even for the most cynical among us, this submission from Muni rider D is cute, fluffy, and vaguely hopeful:
“As I was riding home on an outbound 38 Geary yesterday I glanced out the window and spotted this rather unusual ‘tag.'”
Maybe it was fertilized by, well, never mind.
Muni stories are best enjoyed over a drink or two with your fellow riders, so come on down to the Elbo Room on Saturday, Nov. 9, for an evening of hilarity and commuter-bonding. Today we’re releasing the full lineup for our 10th show! You’ll hear tales from:
We’re also giving the best audience storyteller a gift certificate to Tony’s Pizza Napoletana and merch from local indie favorite Lucky Jesus, so get your stories ready!
If you’ve never been to one of our shows before, check out the recap of MDLs past to get a flavor of Muni Diaries Live.
Grab a ticket now and invite your friends!
Details:
Muni Diaries Live
Sat., Nov. 9, doors: 6:30, show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $12.
Buy advance tickets
Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St stations
Facebook invitation
Event graphic above by Craig Fowler Design.
Photo courtesy Market Street Railway
What’s that? You didn’t think Muni could be cute? Like, no way in hell?
Think again, curmudgeon. This Saturday and Sunday mark Muni Heritage Weekend. SFMTA and Market Street Railway will operate vintage buses, a special cable car, and a few old streetcars from 10 a.m. to 5 both days, giving the public a chance to see how far we’ve come from the old days [insert your cynical jokes here].
The old buses will leave from the San Francisco Railway Museum on Steuart Street between Market and Mission streets, near the Ferry Building and Embarcadero.
No matter what your plans are this weekend, you should totally do this.
For more info on the vehicles that will return to operation this weekend, visit Market Street Railway.
Your Muni route is totally a person. A flawed, wonderful, terrible, smelly person full of flaws and smelly people. But dependable, ultimately. Right?
Julian of Seismogenic has taken that idea hella steps forward. He conjured the characters you see above to represent Muni Metro’s seven lines.
The T-Third and the K-Ingleside. They’re that couple. You know the one. Attached at the hip, refer to themselves as “we” and never “I,” really need to get a room that’s more private than West Portal. The K is spastic and erratic and generally nuts, with a bit of an evil streak. The T is used to dealing with a lot of mayhem, so he can handle the K’s neuroses most of the time. He’s generally pretty chill in the face of everything, unless there is baseball, at which point he flips his shit too.
OMG, they are “that couple.”
Check out the rest of Julian’s descriptions at his Tumblr.
Photo by smadden
Muni debuted a new line today: the 5L-Fulton Limited. It’s basically the 5-Fulton with limited stops and is meant to speed up rush-hour commutes along that line.
Here’s a sampling, good and bad, of what some of you had to say via Twitter this morning:
- Derek: “The new 5L is life changing.”
- Justin: “20 minutes from home to downtown; thanks SF Muni for the 5 Limited and for making Monday almost bearable. #sfmuni“
- Laura: “#SFMuni success. Day one on the 5L and it was amazing.”
- Ashley: “I was soo amped about the new 5L for my commute but the driver seems to not have been trained. Still [stopping] at every stop. #fail“
Well, we have “life-changing,” gratitude, “almost bearable,” “amazing,” and a driver that possibly missed the training session. Sounds like the 5L is fitting right in to the Muni fold. To all of our Richmond District enthusiasts: What colorful descriptions do you have for Muni’s new 5L-Fulton Limited?
Read more about the 5L-Fulton Limited.
We last saw the Emergency sign hacker in late September. Now they’re back with a message that almost seems poignant. Almost.
Happy Monday!
Via Spirited Unicorn.