New Muni Sign Caption Requests Repent
It’s not too late to repent for your weekend full of debauchery, be it any of the seven sins. All you have to do is to get on Muni.
Photo via @sanfranzannn.
All the popular Muni tweets
Photo by Sonny Abesamis
And wouldya just lookee there. Many of them are about drinking and the hot, hot heat we suffered this weekend. Coincidence?
- To the dude drinking Steel Reserve in the back of the 8x at 7:45 in the morning on a Monday – I salute you.
- Drunk guy on Muni yelling random lyrics from Lorde songs. #onlyinSF
- So it’s 72 in SF (equivalent to the rest of the world’s 92) & #Muni has the heater on. #MuniIsTryingToKillUs
- The #19 bus is like the Mos Eisley of #SFMuni. I only wish I had Obi-Wan to escort me every morning. cc @starwars
- If the bus smells like if someone is eating fried chicken is most likely bc someone really is eating fried chicken
This week’s astute Muni observations were made by @taylormadeSF, @IvanVanderbyl, @LorenaBennett, @brendenguy, and @Zurib19. What’s happening on your Muni commute? Tell it to @munidiaries.
May Day Protest Blocks All Muni Buses on Mission
Our correspondent Laura O (of @caltraindiaries) sent the photo above to us at 6:46 p.m.: May Day protesters are blocking all buses on the corner of 16th and Mission. People holding black flags and signs protesting anything from police brutality to education have taken over the intersection. The southwest entry of the 16th Street BART station is closed. Laura says that about 20 buses are blocked from passing through, and there are four people doing a sit-in at the intersection. The 14-Mission and 49-Van Ness are stuck on Van Ness and is stopping along South Van Ness instead, as of 6:58 p.m.
People behaving badly on BART
BART rider Nick enjoyed a greatest hits of bad behavior recently. Here are the goodies, with captions from his point of view.
1. (above) “Gee, you’re precious, but it’s the last fucking train to the East Bay on a Giants game night.”
2. “I work too hard all day to put my little-ass bag on my lap so an old lady can sit.”
3. “Wow, I miraculously woke up to transfer to the Richmond line, but I’m still an inconsiderate asshole.”
TBT: Awesome vintage video documents fight to save cable cars
It would be hard to imagine a San Francisco without cable cars. But in the early 1950s, the city nearly moved forward with plans to replace the city’s famed trolleys with buses. The fight to save the cable cars was captured in this very cool 1954 news reel that British Pathé recently uploaded to its YouTube channel along with thousands of other videos. Interesting tidbits: cable cars are “no bigger than an automobile,” and can apparently fit 120 people.
Also in the British Pathé collection is a 1946 video showing cable cars, streetcars, and motor coaches speeding around San Francisco and drivers undergoing reaction tests. Sadly, there is no sound.
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h/t: CurbedSF
Wednesday’s best tweets about the heat and Muni
Photo by Todd Lappin
If you’re not at the beach right now, you’re probably tweeting about how hot it is in San Francisco today and the heatwave on the bus. Like these fine folks …
To the dude sweating profusely on Muni… I feel your pain bro.
— Marcus Torrey (@MJTorrey) April 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/mimozsa/status/461533263408795648
it’s way too fucking hot on this muni!
— A.X (@aaalisson) April 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/leftynerak/status/461289449943355392
Hot day in sf translates into smellier people than usual on #muni
— Lizzie Rossiter (@lizzierossiter) April 29, 2014
It's so damn hot! Swear I could strip on muni right now 😂😎😂
— ShEs_IrOnIc (@BaD_nEwsBeAr) April 29, 2014
I am not getting on a sardine can called the 44 Muni in this heat. #commuterlife
— Connie S. Mendoza (@SnoopConnieCon) April 30, 2014
Sitting on the bus, starting to sweat cause it's so effing hot. And I couldn't be happier 😊👏☀️🍺
— kayla winter (@kayladubz) April 30, 2014