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There was a compost bin on BART recently, according to @cruisezero. Why? I suppose the answer is: Why the hell not? Except for the whole part about those things stinkin’ to high heaven.
Someone set it up with the traveling Muni Metro recycle bin, as they can love up on some Earth together, 4 eva.
Nifty filter on the compost bin.
Supervisor Scott Wiener says SFMTA should donate money is it receiving for the latest controversial Muni ads to the Human Rights Commission. The ads say, “End Apartheid Now!” and “Stop U.S. Aid to Israel.”
According to City Insider, Wiener is asking SFMTA to donate the money to mirror its reaction to a series of ads that ran in 2012 calling all Muslims “savages.” After heavy protesting, the agency decided to give revenue it generated from the ads to the HRC to study the effect of discrimination against Muslims. Rather than remove the ads, SFMTA placed head-scratcher ads of its own next to the controversial ones that read:
SFMTA policy prohibits discrimination based on national origin, religion, and other characteristics and condemns statements that describe any group as “savages.”
Read the SFGate blog for more.
What do you think? Should SFMTA donate its revenue from these latest controversial ads?
Photo by Michael
Rider Cat witnessed some truly terrible behavior on the J last week. Things got so violent that calling it “douchebaggery” is putting it mildly.
I was on the 8:15 a.m. J last Friday. There were a group of teenagers, lounging as they usually do, trying to take up multiple seats. Whatever, they do that all the time.
At some point, one of the teenagers started yelling and screaming about how some older man had “moved his leg.” The teen was sitting in the first row of seats that face the driver cabin. The leg in question was sprawled in front of him so that he could block people from sitting in the elderly/handicap seats. Read more
Photo by mymuni
This Thursday the San Francisco Transit Riders Union is having a fundraiser/date auction at the Make-Out Room. The merriment includes an auction of some pretty cool date packages, and some San Francisco singles with Muni cred. Who knows, you might just meet someone who can be your partner in crime in the best Muni love story ever.
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Photo by Here and There and In Between
Oh hey, looks like Muni’s planning a new M line? Will there be antlers in the front?
Photo by Here and There and In Between
Oh, so this is cool. Fred Chasen, Raymon Sutedjo-The, and Charles Wang built a neato web toy that chronicles the long history of transit in San Francisco. I started looking at this one day last week while at work, and well, didn’t get much else done for like an hour.
Curious about what transit was like before your grandpappy was even born? Check out SFTransitHistory.com.
Hat tip: Huffington Post