Category: News

Holy euphoria! Thanks to your votes, Muni Diaries just nabbed San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Reader’s Poll for Best Local Blog! We are breathless with excitement and so thankful to everyone who voted for us, especially those of you who submitted your gross, funny, and poignant Muni stories, reenacted them on stage at our spoken-word party in June, or gave us your two cents in the comments section.

We created Muni Diaries as a place where anyone riding Muni can share stories and talk about our public transit system — one of the few common experiences shared by San Franciscans of all stripes. We created the space, but you made the blog, so thank you, thank you, thank you! Our sanity as bloggers depends on our supportive network of blogger friends such as whatimseeing.com,  SFist, SFAppeal, MissionMission (winning editor’s choice for “Best Virtual Mission“), MissionLocal, I Live Here: SF, Eye on Blogs, Tenderblog, and Broke Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Website (which won “Best Local Website” this year!). Our transit blogger friends like Muni Manners, N-Judah Chronicles, and Transbay Blog also keep us in check.

So please keep the stories, photos, and videos coming! We can’t get enough.

xoxo, your Muni Diaries crew:

Eugenia, Jeff, Jenny, Suzanne, and Tara.

On Monday, Tara’s post about Routesy and NextBus and NBIS received a belated comment from Kelly Beener, the VP of Marketing at AppTight, the company that makes iCommute-SF,  a Routesy iPhone app competitor. (confused? check out the story to learn more.) It was a long and thoughtful comment. But because Muni Diaries is, for now, a blog, posts tend to fade away into obscurity. We felt that because AppTight is a player in this story, it was right to alert our readers of Kelly’s comment. Here’s a taste:

We’ve closely followed the progression of this controversy and understand why it is that there are so many differing opinions and why people can have such differing convictions as to who has what rights as it’s a lengthy history with many revisions, contracts, acquisitions and tranfers. That being said, we are quite happy with our relationship with NBIS and feel that it ultimately achieves the best possible service for the consumers.

Click here to read the full story and comments.