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Transit News: Restored Muni streetcar back in service, BART and wheelchairs, Central Subway and North Beach

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  • Last 1070-Class Streetcar Makes It Into Service (Market Street Railway Blog)
  • Misconceptions Fuel Non-Profit Opposition to Crucial Muni Funding Reform (Streetsblog SF)
  • BART station no place for wheelchairs (SFGate)
  • Dead Body Found On Muni Platform Saturday Morning (SF Appeal) | (SF Weekly)
  • Muni’s Central Subway tunneling decision may not make North Beach happy (SF Examiner)
  • Muni subway plan to appease North Beach (SFGate)
  • Muni and other agencies consider basing fares on income (SF Examiner)
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Tonight: See Great Muni Photos, Rename Your Muni Line, + Tamale Lady!

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Come hang out with us tonight at Harvey Milk Photo Center to celebrate beautiful Muni photos and play a game of “Rename Your Muni Line”! We’re giving away some super adorable viewfinders and beautiful calendars from the good folks at Market Street Railway for the first 35 people who come up with a clever moniker.

To add to the only-in-San Francisco vibe, the Tamale Lady and the Civic Center accordion player Robert V. Doerr Jr. and his dog, Ginger, will be there!

If this is not reason enough:


Photo by ohheygreat

In Transit: San Francisco’s Daily Commute in Words and Pictures

Tonight: Friday, Nov. 30, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Harvey Milk Photo Center
50 Scott Street (Duboce Park)
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Groped on Muni in the Morning

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Photo by Jamison Wieser

Reader “A.F.” (real name withheld) sent us this disturbing account of being groped on Muni.

This morning, I was zoning out on the N train, when I realized that the guy in front of me was groping my crotch. His fingers were moving up and down in a way that didn’t seem accidental (though it might have been, I’m still not entirely sure, as it was a crowded train). I blurted out: “you just groped me.” Reaction? Complete silence, from him, and from the rest of the train. He got out at the next stop.

There are plenty of articles and unofficial polls about how frequently this happens. There’s no way to prove it, but I wanted to say or do something. Does anyone know if there are any official statistics collected on this issue? I was surprised that Muni’s website had no information on this topic.

What would you do? Or if you were on the train, watching?

The Bay Citizen reported earlier this year that sexual assault on public transportation is vastly under-reported. And sadly, A.F.’s account is one of many reports that we’ve received from readers about being groped on public transit.

Would you report this to the police if it happened to you? What do you think bystanders should do?

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Time Lapse Video: One Day In San Francisco’s Public Transit

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We love transit geeks, especially ones who are handy with time-lapse videos. Via SFist, we found YouTube user STLTransit, who created time-lapse videos of public transit systems, including one of San Francisco that shows the movement of every Muni bus, BART train, and ferry boat over a period of 24 hours.

I just can’t stop watching the littler dots of buses buzzing by, and the color-coordinated dots for BART lines whizzing through the East Bay.

Must. Click. Play. Again.

Thanks, SFist.

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Photographic Treasures from ye Muni of Olde

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Image: SFMTA Photo Archives

The good folks at the SFMTA Photo Archive are still busy opening up the vaults. To honor Muni’s centennial, the archives have made available 57 posters with amazing historic photos. Check them out here.

Just to whet your appetite, the caption on the photo above reads: “Trolley Coaches Outside of Seals Baseball Stadium at 16th & Bryant Sts; SF Giants vs. Philadelphia | April 29, 1958”

Jaw, drop.

See all the SFMTA photo archive posters.

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