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Muni rider David sent us this photo of a queue of 30-Stocktons and 45-Stockton/Unions on Third Street. The buses were held up along with almost all vehicular traffic during last Thursday’s evening rush hour due to a sand spill on the Bay Bridge. I love how the buses’ trolley poles are all pointing in the general direction of the traffic jam.
Photo by Lulu Vision
Here in San Francisco, someone corrected the movie’s advertisement on a Muni shelter to reflect a more accurate reality in which Natalie is like, “No strings attached, ok?” and dude is like, “I just did it with Natalie Portman!”
(Thanks for the photo, Lulu Vision!)
Photo by Peter_Hansen
I see a face in there. And that is one of my favorite of Muni’s PCC fleet of streetcars. What’s yours? Here’s a link to all of them at Market Street Railway‘s site.
Photo by Flickr user Lulu Vision
Allie has a strange missed connection of sorts. Read on.
Regardless of the day of the week, she will exclaim across the bus, “It is Sunday, a day of rest! Do not talk so loud!”
We hadn’t seen her in a long time until last week when we were disembarking from the 5 at Baker and she was waiting at the stop… Let’s just say I got a very stern look and lots of hand motions which insinuated that I was being loud and obnoxious. But I was outside and laughing (soberly and not super loud) around noon on a Saturday. Has anyone else run into this librarian-like French woman?
But, for the first time in nearly three years, I found a spotless 49. Sort of. See the photo I snapped above.
This is the only picture I shot. But every panel within view was just as clean.
A lot of, if not all, of these window-panel thingies was clearly new. Sitting next to one was almost like using a brand-new shopping cart. Or using the new gym shower.
Important note: the rest of the bus was not spotless. There was still some crap on the floor. Poles bestickered, as usual. The windows themselves were clearly not new. It being an articulated 49, the bus was obviously not new, either.
But the panels, folks. Spotless! One step at a time.
Muni rider Jeremy is stoked on an F-Market operator he had over the weekend.
He always makes great announcements. Apparently one of these passengers had been waiting for 2 hours for a #9.
It felt so “above and beyond.” There was an elderly gentleman on board who was looking for 1087 Market Street. The operator suggested that the guy remain in the front seat so he “wouldn’t forget” to tell him when we had reached the block.
It’s nice to see that there are some operators out there providing good customer service.
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