Transit News: BART ridership, BART deaths, Muni guards, Muni challenge, Super Bowl party

This Bay Area transit news roundup features a challenge and an acceptance of that challenge. It’s like the Wild West in here. Read on, and if you have any transit news tips, let us know.

  • BART can’t keep pace with rising ‘crush loads’ (SFGate)
  • BART operator tried desperately to stop train before two deaths (SFGate)
  • Supes let Muni guards keep guns (SFGate)
  • SFTRU challenges S.F. officials to ride Muni for 22 days (SF Chronicle)
  • Politicians accept challenge to ride Muni for 22 days (SFBay)
  • Super Bowl party will kick out F-Market streetcars (SFMSR)

Relive our favorite moments from Muni Diaries Live

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More than 200 of you came to the Elbo Room last Saturday to celebrate all the hilarious, thought-provoking, or just plain ol’ weird things that can happen on public transit. At this show, we had lots of only-in-San Francisco moments. I mean, where else can you expect an impromptu Whitney Houston lip-synch contest? Here are some of our favorites.
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I can’t believe it’s not Fabio on Muni

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I wonder who the No. 1 most commonly mistaken celebrity in the world is. Just yesterday at lunch, I was positive that The Jinx‘s Robert Durst was a few seats down from me at the bar. No, it wasn’t him. And yes, I finished my lunch.

Muni rider and friend of Muni Diaries Stephanie sent us the photo above. Methinks this is actually Fabio himself, not a doppelganger. And I am right about this.

Previously on Muni Diaries:
Bieber doppelganger spotted on Muni
Heisenberg Is Everywhere
Bill Hicks lookalike passes out on Muni holding a can of Four Loko

See you tomorrow at Muni Diaries Live!

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Tomorrow evening, we are bringing some of our favorite storytellers to the stage at the Elbo Room to share how they see San Francisco through their Muni journeys. There are a few advanced tickets left, and we’ll have a handful of tickets at the door. Come and celebrate all that can happen from point A to point B!

Muni Diaries Live
Advanced tickets are sold out, but we’ve saved some spots for a few door tickets. Get there early!
Saturday, April 18, Door: 6 p.m. Show: 7 p.m.
Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street
San Francisco
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St stations

Photo by Right Angle Images

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