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Photo by chainsmokingbluemonkey
It was one of those errors introduced “upstream,” as they say, evidenced by lachtaylor‘s iPhone screenshot:
“Detorus,” eh? I think that’s Latin for “detour.”
Hey, maybe Sarah Palin should hire this Muni copywriter. You betcha!
Also, in case you missed it, another Muni-SF Marathon FAIL.
Jessie sent us this justifiably confused email:
Um….wasn’t the 53 discontinued a few months ago? Way to go, Muni!
Maybe SFMTA is recycling from past years? No, the date is right. Unless this sign is from … ah, screw it.
Photo by juicyrai
Here are some of the better Muni smell descriptions we’ve seen in the last month or so:
@holyempressqb: “shoutout 2 whoever that is that smells like febreeze on muni right now” on June 15.
@kkblabs: “This woman on the1 rly needs 2close her pits!! Smells like my hot yoga studio but filled w hippies+Mexi food+used diapers! :-x” on June 16.
@nikilips: “The 22 smells like chocolate raspberry deliciousness. Mmm mmm muni.” on June 16.
@NillaBeans: “Pro: 38 Limited arrived quickly. Con: It smells like a woodburning stove. The mysteries of Muni will never cease to amaze me.” on June 24.
@coreyr: “my son upon stepping onto a muni metro train thick with the smell of marijuana: dad, it smells like stinky blueberries.” on June 27.
@cwbayarea: “Public transportation is not going my way today. This muni smells like rotten hot dogs…” on June 24.
So, now that we’ve brought it up, (I’m totally gonna regret asking, but …) what does Muni smell like to you right now?
See? We eliminate two flights of stairs and save up to 5 minutes or so.
So what’s the rub, why didn’t they build the station like this in the first place?
It seems there simply isn’t enough room to have all the extra faregates and ticket machines we’d need on the station platforms. Or at least, it USED to be that way.
But now that we have Clipper, couldn’t we make do with less? All you’d have to do is exit Muni and tag on to Bart. Or in the other direction, tag off Bart and on to Muni.
Muni trains already have Clipper machines inside the train, and it’s a proof-of-payment system, so gates aren’t really needed. Bart could just have a couple faregates at the platform level. It wouldn’t have to take up too much space.
Wethinks this should be on a list of shovel-ready, high-priority stimulus jobs. You listening, Mr. Prez?
Above ossum grafik by Mr Eric Sir.
Photo by peephole
Peephole‘s caption on Flickr reads:
Just walk and maybe pretend you have a bus or streetcar to get you there. Chinese New Year Parade, San Francisco.
Here’s another video shot at last week’s opening of Outbound at Secession Art and Design. Tracy told us about a Muni ride early in his SF tenure. In a borrowed tuxedo, he witnessed what can happen when two women argue over who gets the one open seat on the bus. And what the rest of us do when that happens, sadly.
Other video diaries from the Outbound opening:
– Mary: The boombox vs. The New Yorker
– Zore: What Happens When a Chicagoan Gets on Muni