Weekend Transit Advisory: Thanksgiving Muni Schedule, Tree Lighting Ceremony

Is the turkey in the oven? Good. Now you can chill and read about some transit advisories this weekend, maybe with a cocktail in hand. Go ahead, treat yourself.

Holiday Muni Schedule

On Thursday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday, Muni will operate on a Sunday schedule. On Friday Muni will operate on a regular weekday schedule to provide additional service for those visiting and shopping in the city.

Turkey Day 5K Run

On Thursday the 5K Turkey Day Run will start at 8 a.m. at AT&T Park, lead out along the waterfront, heading south of Market District and finish at City Hall. For more event details, please visit www.turkeyday-5k.com.

The following Muni lines and routes will be affected:
F Market and Wharves
N Judah
T Third Street
5 Fulton
6 Parnassus
8X Bayshore A Express
9 San Bruno
10 Townsend
12 Folsom
14 Mission
19 Polk
21 Hayes
27 Bryant
30 Stockton
38 Geary
45 Union-Stockton
71 Haight-Noriega
108 Treasure Island

Union Square Tree Lighting Ceremony

On Friday the 23rd annual tree lighting will take place at 6 p.m. at Union Square.

The following Muni routes will be affected starting at 3:30 p.m.:

Powell-Hyde Cable Car
Powell-Mason Cable Car
2 Clement
3 Jackson
8X Bayshore Express
30 Stockton
38 Geary
38L Geary/Geary Limited
45 Union/Stockton

76-Marin Headlands gets made-over


Photo by pmmueller

Have you ever had a reason to take Muni to Marin? We’re not talking a simple crossing of the best bridge in the world* here.

The 76-Marin Headlands was a rarely used, always behind schedule route that ferried humans across the great expanse and deep into the nether regions of the Marin Headlands (thus the route’s designation). Now, SFMTA has thrown this poor route a lifeline, last weekend establishing the spiffy, revamped 76X-Marin Headlands Express. See what they did there with that name?

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At the Library Right Now: Old Muni Passes


Photo by axelfeldheim

Think you missed the colorful paper Fast Passes of yore? Wait until you see what Fast Passes looked like before the colorful stripe design. The San Francisco Public Library’s “Cussed and Discussed” show about Muni has some interesting old Fast Passes, including one with a pumpkin cutout, and another appropriate back-to-school theme.

axelfeldheim on Instagram took some photos of these old gems.


Photo by axelfeldheim

As long as we’re on that trip down the time capsule, check out these fancy old Fast Passes from 1976 to 1978 and 1987-1988. Makes you look at your ole Clipper card and sigh, doesn’t it?

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