Please mind the gap (and dude asleep on the floor) as you enter BART
Who says you need a seat to catch some Zs on public transit? Definitely not this hero!
h/t BART rider Mike
Muni Arts and Crafts Class: Origami
Some like to tune the world out. Others actively people-watch. And there are those who capitalize on their commute time by practicing origami.
The art of fine paper-folding is by no means the only art/craft that Muni riders engage in. To whit, we told you years ago about a few people who knit on the bus. And this finished origami bird found a home on Muni.
What do you do to pass the time on your commute?
The Onion, Muni Edition
Oh, The Onion is drawing inspiration from life in San Francisco again with, “Man with Serious Mental Illness Committed to Bus.” Sure, this could prompt a revisit to the piss-pillow incident of 2014 or rightful hand-wringing over the state of mental-health services. But let’s focus on these things instead:
- Every now and then, a driver will totally look out for all involved when a visibly “disturbed” man is caressing his tool (not what you think) on the bus.
- I don’t care who you are, an apparently harmless person yelling “My enemy is my enema!” is strangely poetic and kind of a thinker. And it makes for a pretty memorable bus ride, if you ask me.
- Finally, a tweet from @sdquali that kind of sums it all up: “Bruised, in suits and hoodies, wasted, homeless, coding the side project, making out in the backseat. 38 is how S.F. goes home.”
Image above via The Onion
Transit News: Free Muni expanded, cyclists on public transit, Bay Area’s transit plan
Photo by Lynn Friedman
- Dear SF Supervisors: Stop Trying to Score Cheap Political Points and Stay Focused on Fixing Muni Now (Andy Bosselman on Medium)
- Free Muni To Be Offered To Disabled, Low- To Moderate-Income Seniors (SF Appeal)
- SFMTA approves Muni service increase (SF Bay)
- How Your City’s Public Transit Stacks Up (Five Thirty Eight)
- Cyclists bridge gaps with greater acceptance on public transit (SFGate)
- What is the Bay Area’s Plan for 21st Century Transportation? (KQED)
Can’t touch this: A germaphobe’s take on buying BART tickets
Photo of BART lab via NextCity.org
BART’s old cloth seats may have been generally regarded as revolting, but its ticket machines aren’t so bad, at least according to one self-proclaimed germaphobe.
In an article for the website Next City, author Aaron Reiss pits New York Subway ticket machines against BART’s, declaring the Bay Area transit agency the winner from an anti-microbial standpoint for how few times you have to touch or otherwise interact with the machines to add money or buy a new card. While adding $3 to a BART card took three steps, for example, doing the same on a New York MTA machine took 11 steps and required navigating a series of touch screens.
The article is an interesting read, even for those not adverse to touching things in public. It features photos from inside the BART lab where turnstiles and other equipment is tested, and other BART background. The inspiration for BART’s machines? An ATM. Who knew?
Read the full post on Next City here.
THEE (new) SF Panda catches some Zs at Muni stop
If you haven’t already, stop everything you’re doing. Nothing could possibly be more important than this sleeping panda at the Muni stop. *LOL his bus just never arrived LOL*
I hereby nominate this panda to be the new San Francisco Panda, now that that “other guy” bailed down (boo!!!!)
h/t Muni rider Dan: “Out of luck panda sleeping at bus stop. In need of a hug… #savethepandas”