Free Muni tonight! Free Muni tonight!

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Free Muni as in ride for free, not Free Muni like Free Willy (that’s the topic worthy of its own post).

Beginning at 8 p.m. this evening, you can ride Muni for no charge to your next alcohol-addled festivities. Free rides continue until 6 a.m. Muni will keep Metro trains running until 4 a.m., and will increase its overnight Owl service.

So go ahead, get sloshy! Muni’s got your back!

Also, too: BART will run until 3 a.m. tonight. But you’ll have to pay.

Your Weekend/Holidays Transit Advisory: Muni holiday schedule, free rides, 49ers game

Holiday Muni Schedule

Due to less of a demand around the holidays, Muni will generally operate on expanded Saturday schedules on Monday, Dec. 24 and on weekdays between Wednesday, Dec. 26 and Monday, Dec. 31. Details are listed below:

· Saturday schedule: 1 California, 3 Jackson, 5 Fulton, 6 Parnassus, 8X Bayshore Express, 9 San Bruno (last downtown stop at 2nd and Market streets), 14 Mission, 14L Mission Limited, 18 46th Avenue , 21 Hayes, 22 Fillmore, 23 Monterey, 24 Divisadero, 27 Bryant, 29 Sunset, 30 Stockton, 31 Balboa, 33 Stanyan, 38 Geary, 38L Geary Limited, 39 Coit, 44 O’Shaughnessy, 45 Union-Stockton, 49 Mission-Van Ness, 54 Felton and 71 Haight-Noriega
· No service (8X Bayshore to cover both routes): 8AX Bayshore A Express and 8BX Bayshore B Express
· Saturday schedule with extension of service: 48 Quintara-24th Street (will operate to Ocean Beach)
· Operating from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.: 9L San Bruno Limited
· Service will begin at normal weekday start time: 17 Parkmerced, 35 Eureka, 36 Teresita, 37 Corbett, 52 Excelsior, 56 Rutland, 66 Quintara, and 67 Bernal Heights
· Operates at a frequency of every 20 minutes during the morning peak hours: 108 Treasure Island
· Normal weekday schedule: All Muni Metro service, all Cable Car lines, F Market and Wharves, 1AX California A Express, 1BX California B Express, 2 Clement, 10 Townsend, 12 Folsom-Pacific, 14X Mission Express, 16X Noriega Express, 19 Polk, 28 19th Avenue, 30X Marina Express, 31AX Balboa A Express, 31BX Balboa B Express, 38AX Geary A Express, 38BX Geary B Express, 41 Union, 43 Masonic, 47 Van Ness, 80X Gateway Express, 81X Caltrain Express, 82X Levi Plaza Express, 83X Caltrain, 88 BART Shuttle
· Operate on Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Weekends: 76X Marin Headlands

On Tuesdays, Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) and Jan. 1 (New Year’s Day), Muni will operate on Sunday schedules.

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Transit News: Extended BART hours, transit-lane painting delayed, BART seeks veterans

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  • Extended BART hours and special service on New Year’s Eve (BART.gov)
  • Bus-Mounted Cameras for Transit-Only Lanes: More Please (Streetsblog SF)
  • SFMTA Pushes Red Transit Lanes on Church Street to January, Citing Rain (Streetsblog SF)
  • BART to give job-seeking veterans preference in hiring (BART.gov)
  • Community Tips Help SFPD Nab Suspect In 38-Geary Attack (SF Appeal)

“Vigilante” Muni Rider Speaks


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Ed. note: Sorry for all the confusion with this story. There were confusing things happening. Read on.

Remember vigilante Muni justice from a couple days ago? @rotron described how a Muni rider took matters into his own hands, telling a Facebook shuttle to back up off our Muni stop. Turns out that @larrybobsf was that Muni rider, and he explained himself his confrontation last August in a comment on Muni Diaries:

…I’m the guy who yelled at the driver. This happened at the stop at the corner of Market and 8th. NextMuni was reporting both an 83x and a 19 within two minutes. Right next to the Muni stop are two parking meters which are covered over in the mornings with signs designating the space as a shuttle stop. But the shuttle drivers apparently prefer to pull up at the Muni stop instead. I did not move to block the shuttle entrance, but was standing at the Muni stop and the shuttle driver pulled up right in front of me.

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Project aims to document 24 hours in the lives of transportation workers

Friend of Muni Diaries Erich tips us off to the Global Lives Project latest goal:

“From bus fare collectors to flight attendants, mule packers to bicycle rickshaw drivers, we will faithfully capture 24 continuous hours of routines and rituals in the lives of 10 individuals instrumental in moving people and goods throughout our world. The production of Lives in Transit will bring together nearly 100 accomplished filmmakers and media artists to undertake a globally-collaborative work of art that raises questions about the relationship of human connection and disconnection, similarity and difference, distance and proximity.”

Pretty sure I see a cable car operator around 1:05 in the video above. Neato!

Read more about this film/fundraising effort at Global Lives Project’s Kickstarter page. And help them out if you can!

How is Muni’s back-door boarding working for you?


Photo by Devon Shaw

Muni began letting passengers enter through the back door in July. Go ahead — I’ll give you a minute to get the snickering out of your system (don’t worry — I’m laughing, too).

Five months into the program, we’re wondering what you think of it.

In a letter-to-the-editor-style email, Muni rider Nic lets his thoughts be known:

“[T}his City often lacks a certain amount of order and civility. One notable exception used to be the Muni express buses. Instead of the usual scrum jockeying for position to board the bus, the riders of these buses would wait in orderly lines to board in the order they arrived …

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