Five Mini Muni Moments This Week

muni escalator by smelania
Photo by smelania

What happened on Muni this week? Kai the chocolatier rode the 22-Fillmore with a backpack full of 15 pounds of cooked bacon, which made the bus smell like bacon. In related delicious smells, a woman’s bag broke on the 1-California, and a bottle of maple syrup shattered on the floor. Elsewhere, Sara was reading a textbook for her Emerging Diseases class while riding Muni and diagnosed some likely cases around her. “I like your haircut, but you should dye it,” a stranger said to an unassuming woman with a salt and pepper pixie cut.

And finally, here’s a song relating to an important Muni etiquette:
“Close, close, close your legs/when you ride the bus/Verily, verily, verily, verily/your junk can’t be THAT large.”

This week’s Muni moments are from @noshthis, @bozzygoestowork, @happysara89, @dewright07, and @CAwkward.

Don’t forget to follow and @ us your best Muni moments at @munidiaries!

Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Lunar New Year flowers, construction reroutes, the so-called big game

Lots going on this weekend. And some sort of “football” game or something, or the other. Check it out:

Chinese New Year Flower Fair
On Saturday and Sunday the Chinese New Year Flower Fair will be held in Chinatown from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday. For more event details, please visit www.sanfranciscochinatown.com.

The following Muni routes will be affected:
10 Townsend
12 Folsom-Pacific

Street Closure for Building Construction
Beginning 11 p.m., Friday until 5 a.m., Monday, 5th Street between Market and Mission streets will be closed for building construction work.

To direct traffic during the closure, there will be flaggers or SF Police Officers will be on site at the intersection of Market, Mission and Howard streets on 5th Street. Motorists travelling in this area are advised to allow extra travel time and to use alternate routes including 4th, 6th and Howard streets.

The following Muni routes will be affected:
27 Bryant
8X Bayshore Express
30 Stockton
45 Union-Stockton
91 Owl

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Sundown at Powell Station

trumpet

Reader Gregory just brightened my day.

I came across this scene while walking through Powell station en route to the Ferry Building. I decided to pass through the station instead of walking the well-trodden and energetic Market Street. The energy underground is much different. Bright florescent lights leave nothing uncovered, and the corridors echo the voices and whispers of those passing though.

From a hundred steps away I heard the soothing notes of a trumpet player and his mp3 orchestra. And as I turned the corner, this is what I saw.

Anyone know more about this trumpet player?

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