Your Weekend Transit Advisory: 49ers Game!

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49ers Football Game
The San Francisco 49ers will host their ninth home game on Sunday, against the Miami Dolphins starting at 1:05 p.m. at the Candlestick Park.

Muni offers several ways to get to Candlestick Park from locations throughout San Francisco. There are four Muni Express routes and two Shuttles.

The Muni Express route is Special Event Fare Service
· Adult fare: $12 roundtrip
· Youth/Senior/Disabled fare: $10 roundtrip
· Muni monthly pass, Passport or CityPass Special Event Add-on fare: $8 roundtrip (adult and discount pass holders)

The Candlestick Shuttles are regular fare service, $2 adult per trip and $.75 for youth/senior/disabled per trip.

In order for Clipper customers with a monthly pass to obtain the add-on fare discount, at least $8 in cash value must be loaded to their Clipper cards prior to boarding the special event Muni service.

Customers can load their cards online at www.clippercard.com (please allow at least five days for processing), or at one of the participating Clipper vendors or ticket vending machines in a Muni Metro station. Please go to www.sfmta.com for fare details.

For service to and from the game, T Third customers should transfer at the Gilman/Paul station to the 87 Candlestick Shuttle, which operates directly between the station and Candlestick Park.

Muni customers may purchase their fare in advance. SFMTA staff will sell Muni fares from 10:05 a.m. at the following locations:

· Balboa Park BART Station
· Sutter Street/Sansome Street

Pre-game Service:
· 75X Candlestick Express – from Balboa Park BART
· 77X Candlestick Express – from California and Van Ness
· 78X Candlestick Express – from California and Funston
· 79X Candlestick Express – from Sutter and Sansome
· 86 Candlestick Shuttle – from Bacon and San Bruno
· 87 Candlestick Shuttle – from Third Street and Gillman, T Third Station

Post-game Service:
· 75X Candlestick Express – to Balboa Park BART
· 77X Candlestick Express – to Van Ness and North Point
· 78X Candlestick Express – to California and Funston
· 79X Candlestick Express – to Kearny and Sutter
· 86 Candlestick Shuttle – to Bacon and San Bruno
· 87 Candlestick Shuttle – to Third Street and Gillman, T Third Station

79X Candlestick Express Re-route

The southbound 79X Candlestick Express, which provides express service to the 49ers game from downtown, will be re-routed all season due to Central Subway construction on Stockton and 4th streets. Customers traveling to the game can board the 79X Candlestick Express at the following locations:

· Sutter and Sansome
· Sutter and Kearny
· Mason and Geary
· Cyril Magnin and Market
· 5th Street and Mission
· 5th Street and Howard
· 5th Street and Folsom

The southbound buses will then travel express to Candlestick Park from 5th and Folsom. Northbound buses will remain on their regular route.

Things I’ve been taught by my Muni friend


Photo by Jeremy Brooks

In which @hotchallah enumerates her lessons:

“Things I’ve been taught by my #muni friend on this ride: a chimpanzee can turn a 16″ truck tire inside out with his bare hands.” (via)

“Things I’ve been taught by my #muni friend on this ride: rich people buy chimpanzees as pets bc the rich have nothing upstairs” (via)

“Things I’ve been taught by my #muni friend on this ride: his name is Michael.” (via)

“Things I’ve been taught by my #muni friend on this ride: he had an apple donut this morning but he usually doesn’t eat sugar.” (via)

What did you learn on Muni today?

Transit News: Muni development money, North Beach subway, Caltrain Wi-Fi, BART parking


Photo by sirgious

  • Left-right punch knocks out increased development fees for Muni (SF Bay Guardian)
  • Calls for North Beach Central Subway Station Intensify as Plans Evolve (Streetsblog SF)
  • Caltrain can’t afford to install Wi-Fi (SFGate)
  • Nonprofits slapping Muni’s hand out of their pockets (SF Examiner)
  • BART Contemplates Raising Parking Rates (SFist)
  • BART Wants To Hire Honorably Discharged Veterans (SF Appeal)

‘Here, talk to the girl next to me on Muni’


Photo by Steve Rhodes

First things first: WTF?

Paige brings the light of day to one of the weirdest/creepiest stories we’ve seen in our years of rounding up weird/creepy stuff on Muni. Here’s Paige:

I was riding the 33 bus line and sat in the open seat next to a man who looked to be in his mid 20s. I sat down, got out my headphones, plugged them into my phone, started playing music, then proceeded to play Temple Run. I was minding my own business while my friends were in other parts of the bus in seats. My friend came up and said something to me and then we began chatting a little as I had the headphone facing the man sitting next to me still in.

The man was talking to his friend on his phone, which I believe was a Galaxy. He accidentally dropped his phone between us while talking, then picked it up and said “sorry” and I replied with a laugh and “it’s okay”. The man then took the headphones out from the plug in his phone, tapped my shoulder, and said to his friend, “hey, here, talk to this girl sitting next to me”. He made me talk to his friend on the phone …

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