Category: News

Tonight’s opening night for San Francisco artist Nathan Tan (Nate1), who you might also know as the designer of our awesome “Long Live the Fast Pass” t-shirts.

See what parts of the city make it into his new works. Of course, our (slightly biased) favorite ones feature Muni zooming by.

Details:
Opening party: Pieces of the City
Secession Art and Design
3361 Mission Street, San Francisco
Friday, April 6, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Check out Nate’s other works and collection of urban-cool shirts and onesies at New Skool.

Art by Nate1

Photo by waltarrrrr

• MTA budget: Sunday parking meters, Fast Passes for low-income youth, Muni vehicles maintenance (The Daily Dose)
• Muni’s on-time rate up slightly so far this year (SFGate)
• Proposed SFMTA budget includes significant portion of Central Subway funds (Central Subway Blog)
• Muni Town Hall: New Chief Meets, Confounds His Public (SF Weekly)
• Dear Muni: Don’t ask drivers to balance budget (Nevius — who else?)

Local regular folk and dignitaries alike kicked off Muni’s centennial celebration today at the San Francisco Railway Museum. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Mayor Ed Lee, and a whole host of local elected officials celebrated Muni’s 100th birthday by riding in the meticulously restored Streetcar #1.

Among the more memorable things said:
Mayor Ed Lee: “Muni is such an important part of every San Franciscan’s life.” (We couldn’t agree more!)
Supervisor David Chiu: “Love it or hate it, everyone has a Muni story.” (YES!!!!!)

Just after the speeches, VIPs got on board Car No. 1 and went for a stroll down Market Street. Car No. 1 first entered service on Dec. 28, 1912, when Muni was first launched. The historic streetcar is set to join the F-Market/Wharves fleet. We can’t wait to ride it.

As a part of the centennial celebration, Muni Diaries is launching our “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” project: your story can appear in an ad inside the bus! Sounds like Supervisor Chiu has at least a story or three.

Here are some photos from this morning’s event. Special thanks to Market Street Railway for all its hard work getting these moving museums back into service.

Car No. 1 makes its way down Steuart before turning west onto Market

Sen. Feinstein and Mayor Lee unveil the official Muni centennial logo

Photo by visnup

Two San Francisco supervisors have proposed new laws that would force Muni operators to allow baby strollers on Muni unfolded. According to SFGate, it currently is up to the driver whether to allow strollers (news to us). More from SFGate on the current situation:

If it is allowed, the baby must be removed and the stroller must be folded up. The policy also prohibits parents with strollers from using wheelchair lifts and “special ramped platforms” for boarding a bus.

Families are apparently leaving the city, and the supervisors hope that this policy change will slow that phenomenon down.

Read the rest of the report on SFGate. And let us know what you think about this proposal.