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There are hungry people among us, you guys. Stop leaving your food behind on Muni. And donate or volunteer for the SF-Marin Food Bank sometime, eh?
Via Muni rider Faithy: “Exhibit A: Today’s fried chicken on the 22 Fillmore.”
Photo by Dave
In an announcement that probably surprised San Franciscans the most, our fair city ranks second in Walk Score’s new ranking of Best U.S. Cities for Public Transit, just a tick below New York City. How does this compute?
According to Walk Score, they determined the ranking of cities this way:
Our ranking is based on the average resident’s access to public transit in a city. To compute our ranking, we calculated the Transit Score of over 1.9 million locations in 316 cities. We use a population-weighted methodology to compute the average Transit Score for a city. Our top 10 cities list includes cities with populations over 500,000 people.
Unsurprisingly, New York ranked first in the study. On the West Coast, the top best cities are San Francisco, Seattle, and Oakland, in that order.
To be fair, I think it’s pretty reasonable to live without a car here, but the study doesn’t taken into account reliability, which really affects the quality of transit for everyday riders (preaching to the choir, aren’t I?)
When President Obama mentioned a man taking the bus in his State of the Union speech last night, obviously he meant Muni, right? Muni rider Sergio caught the address and saw a familiar sight:
An #SFMuni bus just made an appearance on the #SOTU. Obama mentioned a man taking the bus home from a graveyard shift, dreaming big dreams for his son.
In case you didn’t catch it, it is at 01:22 in the official White House SOTU video.
We have on good intel that Muni riders Emily and Jennifer are hashtag besties. Good thing, that, because yesterday, they were both kind enough to tweet us a hot report from out in the field. Two tweets, seconds apart, the way only hashtag besties can do.
@munidiaries The awkward moment when ur waiting for the 38L to go but the driver's posted playing the sax. #legend pic.twitter.com/m29O2uhHNq
— Emily Bush (@emlovesla) January 28, 2014
@munidiaries waiting for the 38L to take off but the muni driver is on break practicing his sweet saxophone skills. Can't be mad.
— Jennifer Dalley (@Jennifer_Dalley) January 28, 2014
We’ll I’ll be. Totally want audio next time, besties!
Says BART rider Josh, “Oh, don’t let me intrude on your me time!”
Also, what’s that on the ground? Dude, clean up after yourself!
Look, it’s as good a time as any if you also don’t care about taking up the special seats. BART is also your own personal workspace/couch, didn’t you know?
Photo by Lynn Friedman