Your Black Friday Shopping Guide, Commuter Edition

We’ve got some cool San Francisco-proud gift ideas for your Black Friday shopping…er, habit. Check them out!

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Muni Diaries Clipper Card holders. Dress up your Clipper Card with these Muni Diaries Fast Pass Clipper Card holders, with a real Fast Pass sewn into the cover! These card holders are made with love in San Francisco by Heathered, who has a ton more designs, like vintage airline safety cards and Vespa postcards. You can see her at Bazaar Bizarre on Dec. 1 and 2.

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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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