Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Veteran’s Day Parade, Niners vs St. Louis Rams

Honor our veterans this Monday. Transit impact this weekend below, and everything you wanted to know about how to get to the Niners game.

Veterans Day Holiday Muni Schedule

Muni service will follow regular weekday schedule on Veterans Day Holiday, Monday.

Veterans Day Parade

On Sunday the annual Veterans Day Parade will take place on Market Street from 2nd Street to the Civic Center. Staging will begin at 9 a.m. on 2nd Street between Market and Folsom streets.

Beginning at 9 a.m. 2nd Street between Market and Folsom streets will be closed to traffic for staging purposes. Cross traffic will be allowed on Howard and Mission streets until approximately 10:45 a.m. Streets will be re-opened once the parade units passed.

At 11 a.m. the parade will proceed north on 2nd Street, west on Market Street, west on McAllister Street, south on Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place and pass the reviewing stand. The parade will disband on Grove Street between Van Ness Avenue and Larkin Street.

During the parade vehicles will be re-routed around the parade route except Muni buses.

The following Muni line and routes will be affected:

  • F Market
  • 2 Clement
  • 5 Fulton
  • 6 Parnassus
  • 8X Bayshore Express
  • 9 San Bruno
  • 10 Townsend
  • 12 Folsom-Pacific
  • 14 Mission
  • 14L Mission Limited
  • 19 Polk
  • 21 Hayes
  • 27 Bryant
  • 30 Stockton
  • 31 Balboa
  • 38 Geary
  • 45 Union-Stockton
  • 71 Haight-Noriega
  • 76 Marin Headlands

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Weekend Photos: School’s Out


Photo by holograhamz

Finding portraits like the photo of this serious young man is often the highlight of my week at Muni Diaries. In a few weeks we will be honoring all the amazing photographers in the city in our very urban, very San Francisco photo show with the Harvey Milk Photo Center. Stay tuned for more details.

On Monday, you’ll see a new version of the site as well. It’s our second redesign in the last four years. We’re still just three people blogging from our living rooms, but we want to make Muni Diaries the best space for you to share a slice of life in San Francisco. Hope you’ll like it.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!

Photo by bigshop


Photo by bryandempler


Photo by junartclasses


Photo by paigeaglasser

Visiting Muni’s Kirkland bus yard

Marcin was recently allowed into Muni’s Kirkland Yard (which I’m looking at through the window as I type) for a tour. Here’s some of the recap that Marcin sent us:

The Kirkland bus yard, near Pier 39, is one of the smallest and oldest bus yards in San Francisco. It is dedicated solely to diesel buses running mostly neighbouring lines, and some express routes too. …

There are typically over one hundred buses leaving this yard every weekday morning for the rush hour; I visited on the weekend, when it was much quieter and many of the buses were still on the site.

Neato. Read more at Marcin’s site.

Transit News: Muni vandalism suspects in court, 76-Marin Headlands fixes, supe’s thoughts on fixing Muni


Photo by Shawn Clover

  • Not guilty plea in Muni bus vandalism (SFGate)
  • Muni’s downtrodden 76 line to Marin slated for improvements (SF Examiner)
  • Oakland man IDd as Muni Metro victim (SFGate)
  • Editorial by Supe. Wiener: Improving service should be No. 1 Muni goal (SF Examiner)
  • Prosecutor: Suspect In Giants Victory Muni Destruction Is Also Member Of Norteno Street Gang (SF Appeal)

F-Market Photo Exhibit Opens Tomorrow


Photo by Kevin Sheridan

Those who rely on it on a daily basis have their share of gripes, mostly justifiable. Those who admire their machinery and mere existence snap photos and block crosswalks to see them in action. There is a little overlap between these two groups. Either way, they are a sight to behold, and one fairly unique to San Francisco.

In conjunction with Muni’s centennial celebration, the Harvey Milk Photo Center in Duboce Park is presenting The F-Line Inside-Out: Photographic works showcasing San Francisco’s historic streetcars. Here are the deets:

Exhibition Dates: Nov. 9, 2012 through Jan. 5, 2013
Opening reception: Friday, Nov. 9, 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Harvey Milk Photo Center, 50 Scott Street (Duboce Park), (415) 554-9522
Free


Photo by Tim Baskerville

Muni honors driver, defender of torched bus


Photo by Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle / SF

Turns out good deeds don’t always go unnoticed. For their efforts after the Giants’ World Series victory, the SFMTA honored Alan Yam, driver of the bus that was eventually burned, and Simon Timony, he of the Muni Defense Brigade™.

SFGate has the story of Yam, a Muni bus driver who helped usher his passengers off his vehicle once the danger became apparent.

And the SF Examiner covers Timony, whom the SFMTA board offered free Muni for life. Simon did the right thing, politely declining such a prize.

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