Important matters on the 12-Folsom
Via Muni rider Blair*: “Nice haircut Bro. Hope you lost the bet or got the free drink, at least.”
* She of Fixing the 12-Folsom fame
Free Muni for Youth Applications Available Now
Photo by cbcastro
Starting today, SFMTA is accepting applications for the storied Free Muni for Youth program, which was finally adopted in December. SFGate’s City Insider has the story:
To be eligible for the program, kids must be San Francisco residents between 5 and 17 and from households with annual gross incomes below the Bay Area median income. That varies by household size but for a household of two, it’s $82,400; three, $92,700 and four, $103,000. Applicants must have or get Clipper cards.
Qualified youth will get a free Muni pass until they turn 18 or the program ends. It is scheduled to begin on March 1 and continue for at least 16 months.
To apply, go to SFMTA’s Free Muni for Youth page.
Bubbles on the Bus!
If partygoers blowing bubbles on the bus on New Year’s Eve doesn’t make you happy, does it mean that you’re dead inside? These revelers look like they had a blast. Hope no one got hurt (or too annoyed).
Via @erinfrey.
So, did you take advantage of Muni’s free service on Monday night? How was it?
Free Muni tonight! Free Muni tonight!
Photo by davitydave
Free Muni as in ride for free, not Free Muni like Free Willy (that’s the topic worthy of its own post).
Beginning at 8 p.m. this evening, you can ride Muni for no charge to your next alcohol-addled festivities. Free rides continue until 6 a.m. Muni will keep Metro trains running until 4 a.m., and will increase its overnight Owl service.
So go ahead, get sloshy! Muni’s got your back!
Also, too: BART will run until 3 a.m. tonight. But you’ll have to pay.
Top 10 WTF Muni Moments of 2012
You gotta get from point A to point B, but on Muni, that trip can be just a little…weird. Or totally WTF. Here are the top 10 WTF moments on Muni, as reported by Muni Diaries readers like you.
10. Somebody went number two on the 22, and the photo above tells me that nobody opened a window! So this is why everybody wears a scarf.
9. Goats at the Muni yard. No bigs, right?
Photo by Tony Ta
8. I mean “WTF” with the utmost respect, sir Crocodile King. This gentleman’s outfit beats any skinny jeans and plaid shirt situation you see around in the city.
Photo via Reddit
7. Everybody wants to know: who is this handsome accordion player?
6. Parenting is made even more difficult when your seatmate is trying to make a drink on the bus. Best comment: “Lesson to be learned here, children: always pour your liquor into your mixer, never the other way around…”
5. Punk rock cat is more punk rock than all y’alls.
4. Somebody left a pleasant little Easter surprise on the bus. How very kind!
3. Hey, who brought 100 lbs of rice on the bus? Best comment: “I once saw Ozzy Osbourne trying to bring live bats home from Chinatown and when the driver said no livestock on the bus, Ozzy bit their heads off so they were dead and everything was cool.”
2. Remember the slew of fake ads on Muni earlier this year that started out funny but turned sophomoric? (Bi-rite and Tartine were also targets of the fake advertisements).
Photo by @dougrobbin
1. The number one WTF Muni moment of 2012 has to go to the Giants World Series win, which turned into “let’s destroy some property” night.
Photo by Mike Hendrickson
This list, of course, does not include your daily “Where is my bus” moments. I’m hoping for more “pot Easter Egg” and fewer “burn the bus” kinds of Muni moments next year. What do you say?
2012 in Muni stories
Photo by Jeremy W.
So, the San Francisco Giants baseball team won the top prize in professional baseball in the year that ends today. What’s that got to do with Muni? Clearly, you just came out of your coma, so we’ll go easy on you.
The most-viewed post of 2012 on Muni Diaries was “Giants Win World Series! SF Trashes Muni!”. Of course it was. I mean, what else happened this year? Fer srs.
Of course, it wasn’t the baseball game itself, nor the players or fans, who got the most pageviews on this site. It was, sadly, the wanton destruction of a Muni bus, and the story of one guy who tried to stop the madness.