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Photo by Raymond Yee
Who knew about this before this week? I didn’t. And judging by the lack of Fast Pass-related vitriol in our Twitter feed, it sounds like a lot of people didn’t get the memo. Read more
Photo by Jeremy Brooks
MissionMission’s Helen Tseng wrote about her scary experience getting mugged on Muni. She ran after the suspect to get her phone back, in what followed to be an even more frightening experience. From Helen’s blog:
I was on my way to the Needles & Pens anniversary show, and BART was delayed due to that naked guy fiasco, so I hopped on a 14 and took my phone out of my pocket to let a friend know that I would be late. Then, as the bus pulled over to the 23rd and Mission stop, a scary man ripped my phone out of my hands and ran off the bus with it.
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Not only that: She claims she was the first black streetcar conductor in the city. And we have every reason to believe her.
Via SF Appeal:
“In an interview with Oprah, Angelou was just 16 years old and still in high school when she decided to pursue the position. The uniforms caught her eye and she soon went to apply for a job.
Though many women worked as streetcar conductors, at the time none of them were women of color. Angelou was denied an application, but that didn’t stop her from soldiering on. With her mother Vivian Baxter’s encouragement and suggestion, Angelou says she sat in SF’s transit office every day for two weeks. She would arrive earlier than the secretaries and wouldn’t leave until after they had gone for the day.”
Here’s the interview, in which the word “pizzazz” is spoken more than once:
RADNESS!
Photo by Stephanie Pakrul
Last week we posted a story by a rider who saw a medical emergency when the train was stopped in the tunnel. We asked SFMTA about the incident, and spokesperson Paul Rose explained that when this medical emergency happened, three other incidents were happening at the exact same time. Here’s what he told us.
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We know they’re leaky. Many of us think they’re hideous. Then there’s this nifty optical illusion, which makes it all okay.
Here’s a closer look:
It would be cool if all the shelters were handed over to SF’s best street artists. There, I said it.