No BART strike Monday
KTVU tweets that the unions have granted one more day of talks with BART management to avert a strike.
We’ll update here if more news breaks.
Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Holiday schedule, hockey games, hella fairs, Inner Sunset Sundays, Italian Heritage Parade, football
Columbus Day Holiday Muni Schedule
On Monday for the Columbus Day Holiday Muni will operate on a regular weekday schedule.
San Francisco Bulls Hockey Games
On Thursday and Saturday, the SF Bulls will play two pre-season games against Bakersfield Condors and Stockton Thunder at the Cow Palace. Each game will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more details, please visit www.sfbulls.com.
The following Muni routes will be affected:
- 8X Bayshore Express
- 8BX Bayshore B Express
- 9 San Bruno
Five oh-so-San Francisco things on Muni
Photo by eviloars
Love it, hate it. Look forward to getting away, then die of homesickness. It is San Francisco, and in these five examples, it plays out in all corners and rolling buses of the city.
- #muni bus smells like Lysol. don’t know whether I should be excited it’s clean or wary of why they used Lysol.
- Carrying a yoga mat and a day’s worth of juice in glass cans while riding #Muni in heels is some sort of sport.
- there is seriously a dude dumping hot sauce in his Pepsi on the 49 right now. #spicy
- “You may not love #Muni, but remember folks, Muni loves you!” – thing my N driver actually just said over the intercom
- OH on #sfmuni this morning: I donno what they tell you at school, pcp is off the hook
This week’s Five Things on Muni was kindly brought to you by @awildirishrose, @luckyandi, @spamelson, @DanJackson415, and @sashajol. Hop over to Twitter, follow @munidiaries, and share your slices of San Francisco pie with the rest of us!
Spotted on Muni: Reusable shopping … trash bin?
Not everyone is on board with the whole reusable shopping bags gig. We get it. New habits and all.
But Muni rider Roger spotted an upright citizen taking things to a whole new level. Roger?
This guy got the L Inbound, and brought a trash can with him. He was digging it and taking his grocery shopping out of there and having a little snack during his trip to downtown.. Definitely things that you don’t see every day (at least not inside the muni).
I mean just wow.
Muni driver inspires Peninsula church
Photo by Montauk Beach
The driver-rider relationship is a strained one in these parts. While we (and you, judging by your tweets @munidiaries) would agree that there are some pieces of work out there, let’s not forget about the good eggs in this basket.
Linda Wilson-Allen, a driver on the 45-Union/Stockton line, is one such egg. In a San Francisco Chronicle feature last month, she said she treats her job like ministry. Soon thereafter, she was called upon by Menlo Park Presbyterian Church to share some inspirational words for its congregation. Read more in The Gospel Herald Ministries.
Whichever spaghetti monster floats your boat, I think we can all agree that her attitude probably results in way happier passengers than average.
We have a couple other favorites here on Muni Diaries. There was Tammy, the Muni driver who threw a party for her passengers on the 33. And let’s not forget the Muni driver who sings the names of the stops. We’re sure there are more unsung heroes out there, so send them our way so they can get the props they deserve.
Muni Weather Report
The “weather” inside Muni often doesn’t match what’s going on outside. That was especially true for Muni rider Stephanie recently:
“It was a clear night but it was weirdly raining in my @sfmta_muni train.”
Weirdly, indeed. Here’s hoping that Stephanie and her fellow passengers survived the deluge.
Via Twitter.