Careful where you … spit on Muni!?
In a classic case of “Oh no you din’t,” @terrihd issues the following ultimatum to the wearer of those shoes above: “Spitting on T-3rd floor; if he gets my bag it’s on.”
I sure hope it didn’t come to that.
Year: 2013
Muni Diaries Live Is Back on March 2!
Everybody has a Muni story: nail-clipping, whiskey-sharing, mythical-creature-spotting, and it just gets weirder all the time! Come hear true transit stories from riders, writers, and even a BART operator. Bonus: this show will also feature the second Muni Haiku Battle as our Lit Crawl champion defends his crown!
Storytellers:
Johnny Funcheap, master of frugal living
James Nestor, writer and reigning Muni Haiku champion
Anna Pulley, sex/relationship columnist and Muni haiku ninja
Kelly Beardsley, BART operator
Richie Nakano, chef at Hapa Ramen
Lucky Jesus unplugged!
Muni Haiku Battle is inspired by Dirty Haiku Battle, presented by our favorite Oakland show, Tourettes Without Regrets (first Thursday of every month at the Oakland Metro). You should definitely check it out every month. Like, seriously.
Details:
Muni Diaries Live
Saturday, March 2 at the Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Doors: 6 p.m. Show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $12
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St. stations
Get your tickets online soon, as Muni Diaries Live is known to sell out. And with this lineup? Yeah!
Facebook event page (tell your friends, yo!)
Event banner by Craig Fowler Design
Worst Person in the World on Muni?
Photo by Thomas Hawk
There are great people on the bus, and then there are terrible people on the bus. Natasha overheard one of the latter recently:
“yeah well then she cried ‘rape’ and i told her ‘well if you dress like a slut than that’s on you.’ i was wearing jeans and like 3 cardigans and nothing happened to me.” -hipster girl on muni.
just get off the bus or shut up because i hate you.
Granted, it’s on a different level than this. But I’m no fan, either.
Jedi mind trickery on a Muni seat
You laugh, but something tells me this works sometimes. Picture it: a crowded commute-hour Metro train, and not one person sits here because of the message.
Instagram photographer @dusteallen asks, “A fair Muni warning?”
Well, is it?
A new look for Embarcadero, Montgomery BART stations?
Image courtesy BART via SFGate
Holy transit geekery! BART folks are floating a rather expensive, rather … laborious upgrade for San Francicso’s Embarcadero and Montgomery BART stations.
According to Matier and Ross:
The rebuilding of the Embarcadero and Montgomery Street stations would require tearing out the existing walls, installing new platforms, boring additional tunnels for staircases, and putting in extra elevators.
For added safety, the new platforms would have automated sliding glass doors that would open when the trains arrive.
The whole job could take more than five years, but the stations would remain open during that time.
The price tag currently sits at $900 million, and work wouldn’t begin until the next decade.
Get all the juicy details at SFGate.
Muni window smasher vs. tattooed guy
Photo by stevendamron
Happy Monday to you. Take a ride in Pierre’s Muni Way Back Machine (eight whole years ago!).
My favorite weird Muni story, from back in 2005 on bus #8002 on the 47 Van Ness, near North Point and Van Ness:
Out of nowhere, a guy sitting near the front of the bus slams his fist into one of the windows on the bus and cracks it. He turns to a woman sitting nearby and says something about being stressed out by classes. Then a middle-aged guy with tattoos on his face gets up and talks to the driver, obviously telling him what happened. When he sits back down, the window smasher says something about snitching and the tattooed guy says that his taxes have to pay for fixing the window. The two start arguing, and eventually the driver gets on the radio to call the police. Then suddenly the window smasher apologizes and gets off the bus.
The only San Francisco element missing here is a protest. Seriously.
Got a whacky Muni story? You know where to share it.