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Photo courtesy SFTMA
SFMTA is upgrading its current Phelan Loop down by City College on Ocean Avenue, and they want you to name the new plaza. Still sore about not getting the Emperor Norton Bay Bridge? Now’s your shot at redemption.
Check out details on the Phelan plaza renovations. You have until October 15 to submit your name here. We know for a fact how much creativity is out there, evidenced by your renaming of various Muni lines.
Via SF Appeal.
Muni’s rollout of new buses has infected the 47-Van Ness, you guys. Ready your emergency kits. New buses (and their new-bus smell) are coming for you and your loved ones!
Via Patrick.
Photo by Amber Wolf of Wiz Bang Photography
In this audio story by author Andrew Lam, an old Vietnamese immigrant’s gift of palm reading is received with skepticism by a young artist on the 38-Geary. Andrew’s poetic story-telling of the bus ride begins with a familiar dark and foggy day:
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Photo by in.EVITA.ble
Rider RB saw a perfect moment on the N the other day. It’s just a small gesture that makes you think that people are actually all right.
On Monday afternoon at about 1:46 p.m., I saw an amusing Muni scene on the outbound N-Judah just after it came above ground onto Duboce at Church.
A late middle-aged woman with a cane was leaning with her back against the partition at the front of the car rather than take one of the vacant seats offered to her.
A 20-something young lady climbed aboard with a to-go cup of coffee in her left hand, then proceeded to fumble with her one free hand to find $2 and get it into the fare box.
The elderly woman reached over without a word to hold the young lady’s coffee while she paid her fare and received her transfer, then handed her back the coffee. The girl smiled with lips together and nodded her thanks without speaking a word.
A scriptwriter couldn’t have done it better.
Aw, this makes me like people today, kind of like this other coffee-spilling gentleman on Muni.
Photo via StreetsBlog
Muni is looking to reconfigure the forward- and backward-facing seats on the light rail train cars to accomodate more riders and speed up boarding, reports StreetsBlog.
According to StreetsBlog:
The SFMTA plans to run a trial starting in January by putting one reconfigured prototype car into service, which would be monitored over six months before reconfiguring other train cars.
The pilot is moving forward at the behest of Supervisors Scott Wiener and London Breed, who called a hearing held yesterday on how the agency can increase capacity on its metro system while Muni riders await a new, larger train fleet due to arrive in 2017. Read more
“Get on the train. I don’t care what you smell!”
Leanne spotted this on what she thinks was an L at Powell Street Station:
I think the guy standing next to him is the owner, since he had a camera and might have been taking it on a shoot, but I love that he acted like it wasn’t his. Or maybe the owner was watching from afar. Pretty funny!
See, had it been me, I would’ve demanded everyone know.
We’ve seen this Chewbacca fella at a BART station, as the valiant Wookie with the heart of gold scared people into transit politeness. Just kidding, even Chewy can’t do that.