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Your Weekend Muni Transit Advisory: Pride Is Here!

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Pride is upon us, you guys. Here are this weekend’s mostly Pride-related transit advisories …

Transgender March
On Friday the annual Transgender March will begin at 6:45 p.m. from Dolores Park. The route will be as follows: north on Dolores Street, east on Market Street and north on 7th Street into U.N. Plaza.

The following Muni lines and routes will be affected:

· F Market
· J Church
· 5 Fulton
· 6 Parnassus
· 9 San Bruno
· 19 Polk
· 21 Hayes
· 22 Fillmore
· 33 Stanyan
· 47 Van Ness
· 49 Van Ness-Mission
· 71/71L Haight-Noriega

Pink Saturday
On Saturday the Pink Saturday event will be held from 6 p.m. to midnight. The following Muni lines and routes will be affected:

F Market
J Church
L Owl
22 Fillmore
24 Divisadero & 24 Owl
33 Stanyan
35 Eureka
37 Corbett

Golden Gate Triathlon
The Golden Gate Triathlon will take place on Sunday at 6 a.m. in the Presidio. 400 participants are expected to participate at the event.

The 29 Sunset Muni Route will be affected.

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Australian transit “ads” we could use for Muni and BART

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I hate to be the one to say this isn’t a real transit ad, but this isn’t a real transit ad. It should be, yes, but it’s not.

Patricia called our attention to these brutally honest parody ads via Happy Place. The ads explain how you can easily not be an asshole on Down Undah’s Queensland Rail. They’re meant to mock the exceedingly polite — and accidentally passive-aggressive, right? — Queensland Rail etiquette tips. Have a look at what Happy Place describes as, “…five examples that much more closely resemble our subway experiences, plus or minus a few breast-gropers and/or gibberish-spouting homeless women.”

My favorite Bay Area transit etiquette rules: “Don’t give your giant Styrofoam its own seat on crowded trains,” “BART isn’t your living room, mister,” and “It’s impolite to take up extra bus seats and flip people off.”

What are yours?

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Transit News: Bikes on BART, Muni restrooms, Central Subway funding, BART fire

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  • Muni Driver Accused Of Killing Alleged Pimp (SF Appeal)
  • Pilot program will allow bikes on BART all day on Fridays in August (BART.gov)
  • Muni employees calling for more bathroom facilities on routes (SF Examiner)
  • Muni asks drivers to hold it in while new bathrooms get approvals (SF Public Press)
  • Blaze near BART may be suspicious – 3 sought (SFGate)
  • Funding delays could increase cost of Central Subway (The Bay Citizen)
  • Muni: “Glad Bag Bus” Yanked Out of Service (SF Weekly)
  • First batch of new BART cars set to arrive in 2015 (Examiner.com)
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Your Weekend Muni Transit Advisory

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Another busy weekend is in store for San Francisco. Tomorrow, temperatures are forecast to reach 80 degrees. Stay hydrated and keep applying that sun screen, folks!

Here are SFMTA’s weekend transit advisories:

U.S. Open Championship
The US Open at The Olympic Club began Monday, June 11 and will continue through Sunday, June 17. U.S. Open shuttles operate from the Colma BART Station and Candlestick Park to the event. For more details about the event and transportation, please visit www.usopen.com.

While the 18 46th Avenue is affected by the event, it is also the best Muni service to use to get to the U.S. Open. Please visit the U.S. Open page on www.sfmta.com for more details.

North Beach Festival
On Saturday and Sunday the North Beach Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.

The following Muni routes will be affected:

· 30 Stockton
· 39 Coit
· 45 Union/Stockton
· 8X Bayshore Express

Juneteenth Celebration
On Saturday and Sunday the Juneteenth Celebration will take place on Fillmore Street between Post and Turk streets from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day. Please visit San Francisco Juneteenth for more details.

The following Muni routes will be affected on Saturday and Sunday:

· 5 Fulton
· 22 Fillmore
· 31 Balboa
· 38 Geary

Juneteenth Parade
The Juneteenth Parade will begin on Saturday at 11 a.m. starting from the African American Art and Cultural Complex on Fulton Street. It will proceed north on Polk Street, west on McAllister Street, north on Webster Street, west on Turk Street, north on Scott Street and east on O’Farrell Street to the Burl L. Toler Campus.

The following Muni routes will be affected on Saturday:

· 5 Fulton
· 22 Fillmore
· 31 Balboa

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SF Weekly: Muni Maintenance Dismal Compared to Other Agencies

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Muni doesn’t have enough mechanics, and its vehicles break down more than those of other agencies, according to this week’s SF Weekly cover story by Joe Eskenazi. Comparing to other agencies across the country, Muni employs fewer mechanics per vehicle, and statistically, its buses and trains “fail significantly more than those are other agencies.”

Eskenazi details how maintenance issues are recorded and processed for Muni vehicles, and makes a case that Muni should have installed a barcoding system to keep track of parts and inventory. Efficiency and automation are also problems for the agency, according to the SF Weekly report.

You can read the rest of the report over at SF Weekly.

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