Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Giants games, Treasure Island event

In store this lovely weekend (which can’t get started a moment too soon, amirite?), we have more Giants games, an SF Gaelic Athletic Association event on Treasure Island, and, well, whatever rad plans you have. Enjoy!

Baseball Game Traffic Reroutes
The San Francisco Giants will play three home games against Atlanta Braves beginning Friday through Sunday at AT&T Park.
· 7:15 p.m., Friday
· 1:05 p.m., Saturday
· 1:05 p.m., Sunday

For details about transit service to AT&T Park, including connections from Bay Area transit systems to Muni can be found at www.sfmta.com. Regional transit information for BART, Caltrain and the ferries as well as traffic is available at www.511.org.

Athletic Association Event
The San Francisco Gaelic Athletic Association event will take place at San Francisco Gaelic Fields on Treasure Island this Saturday and Sunday. This event will also take place next weekend, May 18 and 19.

Avenue “H” between 11th and 13th streets will be closed from 6:30 a.m. until 7 p.m., each day, Saturday and Sunday, this weekend and next.

The 108 Treasure Island Muni route will be affected from 6:15 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, both weekends.

Overnight Closure for Construction
An overnight closure of northbound Highway 1 (Park Presidio Boulevard/Veterans Boulevard) at Lake Street will be required for Presidio Parkway construction each night, beginning midnight, Tuesday. This night closure is expected to last for three weeks with the following hours:

Mondays through Thursdays Midnight to 4 a.m.
Fridays through Saturdays 1 to 4 a.m.

During the closure, Muni routes 28 19th Avenue and 91 Owl will be affected.

For more information, please visit www.presidioparkway.org.

Kegels and Hair-Sniffing: Top Five TMI Muni Moments This Week

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Photo by amyf

Sometimes I think Muni is our collective living room. But other times, people just get way too comfortable, as these five Muni moments of the week demonstrate. Important life question: How do you even measure the speed of kegels by bpm?

  1. Overheard on Muni this week: “My special talent is doing kegels at 180bpm. My record so far …11 minutes.”
  2. Another important question: Would it be inappropriate to wipe the lil smudge of shaving cream off this older Zach Efron lookalike’s face?
  3. A poor Muni rider had to changed seats on the 43 because the chick in the next seat kept smelling her hair like a Fabreeze commercial. (What shampoo do you use?)
  4. Girl at Muni stop smoking e-cigarette and blowing wisps of pomegranate or apple fumes billowing in this direction. Kind of nice.
  5. A man just cleaned his pitbulls earwax out on the K-outbound. You know. Whatevs. No big deal.

This week’s Muni moments were brought to you by @smiffleblurf, @ten_is_ha, @happysara89, @keaneiscool, and @mschung. What’s your Muni moment this week? Tweet it at @munidiaries and let’s blow up the party talk!

Transit News: Muni labor, bikes on BART, Muni travel time plan, T-Third service

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Photo by Shawn Clover

  • Muni Workers Celebrate Ruling Against SF Ballot Measures That Changed Their Collective Bargaining Rules (BCN via SF Appeal)
  • Survey: Most BART Riders OK With Bikes On Trains During Commute Hours (BCN via SF Appeal)
  • Drastic cut in travel times part of Muni’s ambitious long-term vision (SF Examiner)
  • Muni hero helps cops bust vandal (SF Examiner)
  • Bayview-Hunters Point residents upset about service on T-Third line (SF Examiner)

How Does Muni Handle Medical Emergencies in Tunnels?

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Photo by help

What should you (and SFMTA) do when there is a medical emergency on the train that’s in a tunnel? A rider sent in a story of witnessing a man who started to have a seizure on the train. But the train was stopped in the tunnel in what seemed like a perfect storm of a situation. From the eyewitness:

I am writing about an incident that occurred on a San Francisco Muni Metro train. I was a passenger on an Inbound L train a few minutes after 10am on Thursday, May 9th, 2013.

Around this time, a passenger in the front car experienced a medical emergency, fell out of his seat and landed face-first in the aisle. At the time, our train was stopped in the tunnel between Church station and Van Ness station. I rushed to the driver compartment to alert the driver we needed immediate medical assistance, while two other passengers knelt over the man on the floor. The man on the floor began to have a seizure.
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