Hot dog! Lemme off this Muni Metro car!
I swear, I just had breakfast. But now I’m hungry. And grossed out. But mostly hungry.
Via yungschoetz: “Press this hotdog to open door”
Google Glass and Muni, together at last
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Buzz-item/fetish tech object Google Glass was just bound to be spotted on Muni one of these days. Here, then, is the first time we’re recording a sighting.
We hope he fared better than, well, you know who.
Via Muni rider Juan Karlos: “2/28/14: People wearing Google Glass on Muni Glasstrend is starting*”
*As always, your editor removed hashtags because he loves you.
Transit News: Singing Muni driver, shuttles, shuttles, moar shuttles
Photo by Jeremy Brooks
- Muni driver adds a note of cheer to the 29-Sunset (SFGate)
- Google’s Muni gift won’t stop appeal against S.F. commuter shuttle program (SF Examiner)
- S.F. shuttles tread on Muni’s turf as pilot program aims to cut overlap (SF Examiner)
- Dear Google: Here’s How to Make San Francisco Love You Again (SF Weekly)
- SFMTA puts people of SF first (Ed Reiskin opinion on SF Examiner)
- Regional transit agencies use Muni stops at no cost with no hassle (SF Examiner)
1967 Muni transfer found in book about LSD, fittingly
And if we needed another reason to keep bookstores open …
This isn’t the first time someone has found a Muni transfer in a used book. We should all be so lucky.
Via reddit user oopsifistedyou, “Browsing at Adobe Books, an original Muni ticket from 1967 popped out!”
h/t: @CMRforall
Swedish subway ad blows our minds, our hair
Via Apotek Hjärtat – Blowing in The Wind from Ourwork
A recent ad campaign in Sweden left subway riders doing a double take thanks to one of the coolest electronic billboards ever. Created for Apotek Hjärtat’s Apolosophy hair products, the billboard was rigged so that a model’s hair would begin blowing every time a train entered the station.
If only we had something to make waiting a bit more interesting around here. Muni and BART advertisers, it’s time to step it up.
Via Adweek
Elvis on the 1-California
Photo by mediaboytodd
Most of the time when a stranger talks to you on Muni, your first reaction is probably to gaze at your shoes and pretend you didn’t hear them, right? But sometimes you meet someone with a pretty good heart. Muni rider D submitted their own encounter of meeting someone cool on the bus:
I was minding my own business along with everyone else on an inbound 1 California the other day. After stopping at Laure St. I heard a man loudly saying, “GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY WAY I’M A CALIFORNIAN!!!”
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