43-Vomitorium

43-Masonic

“Muni rider Rebekka was minding her own on the 43 heading toward the Marina, lost in her book, when …

The weirdest noise interrupted my immersed state. I turned around and saw a man and two women running downright towards the front part of the bus. And what I saw then was embarrassing for basically every commuter in this bus: In the last row a guy just emptied his entire stomach. And obviously he hit a huge area of the windows, the seats and the floor. But worst of all, he hit those three people who just escaped.

“In that moment I was trying to figure out whom I should feel more sorry for: The girl who looked like as if she just freshly showered under partly digested food and drinks or the poor man who obviously must have felt incredibly sick. We all stared shocked at each other and nobody was able to talk for the rest of the ride, hoping for the next bus stop. After the first stop, the poor man was gone and stop by stop the bus got emptier. I was the last guest at the last stop and told the bus driver the whole story. She had to stop her bus ride.”

Time of day matters, here, but. Too many appletinis?

BARTor the Transitator!

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Back in good ol’ 2010, Black Maps, a collection of musings by an amateur cartographer, put this into the universe and I am pissed we didn’t know about it until now. In the author’s own words:

My friend Alee always saw something different in the olde Bay Area Rapid Transit map, (which comes as no surprise, cuz honestly, that kid is a genius). Anyways, ever since Alee teamed up with my pal David to create this harbinger of fire, fare hikes, and transfers-that-rarely-make-sense, I have never looked at the BART map the way I used to.

Proudly (not at all because it just worked out that way, design-wise), San Francisco composes what is arguably the noble beast’s mightiest parts. Sorry about the fire damage, Peninsula, and heads-up, Half Moon Bay.

What to do while waiting for Muni

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Update: According to a friend of the artist, this is more specifically the work of Oscar Wickman, who studied advertising at the Academy of Art. AAU posted this on its official Tumblr as the School of Advertising.

The Academy of Art’s School of Advertising came up with this nifty chart. It provides many options that aren’t “stare at your phone and then tweet about how late/terrible/non-existent Muni is right now.”

I’d like to try some of these out, especially, “Come up with alternative endings for movies.” One of mine would be: “George Lucas dies at the end of Return of the Jedi, and the prequels are never made.” What are yours?

Click here to embiggen the above image.

Transit News: BART police, BART fare discounts/hikes, corporate shuttles, SFMTA bond, BART rat, BART carolers

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Photo by cjmartin

  • Report Lauds BART Police For Improvements Following 2009 Killing Of Oscar Grant (SF Appeal)
  • BART to look at expanding fare discount to teenagers (Contra Costa County Times)
  • BART considers charging peak-hour premiums (SFGate)
  • SFMTA Set To Regulate Tech Company Shuttles Using Muni Bus Stops (CBS Bay Area)
  • SFMTA issues $75 million bond for infrastructure needs (SF Examiner)
  • San Francisco Rat Can’t Seem to Figure Out How to Get Off BART Escalator (Video) (SF Weekly)
  • BART Carolers Bring 2 Minutes of Holiday Cheer to Weary Commuters (SF Weekly)
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