SFMTA: Muni Metro electrical outlets are dangerous

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Photo by Timo Heuer

We got a curious response via Twitter yesterday afternoon from the SFMTA about electrical outlets on the bus. It turns out that, according to the SFMTA, you might not want to use these outlets because they’re 600 volts and may damage your device.

This seemed curious because, to our knowledge, people have been delighted to find and plug electronics into these outlets on a fairly frequent basis.

Several @munidiaries followers called bullshit on Muni for suggesting such a thing. We’ll put a call in to SFMTA to get more information. Meanwhile, some of our followers have pointed out that “If that were true, Muni would be liable for terminating it in an outlet rated for 120v@15A” — via @toxic

So, Muni, which is? Dangerous? Not for public use? Or, are you trying to avoid the inevitable bum rush when everyone tries to charge their weak-ass-battery-having smart thing?

Category: News, WTF: Weirdness on Muni

Giants Win the Pennant With Muni’s Support!

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Photo by Joe Shmoe

If you were wondering what all the ruckus was last night, the San Francisco Giants overcame long odds at AT&T Park to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals and claim the 2012 National League pennant. There was much rejoicing.

Muni has been displaying the grammatically challenged “GO GIANTS !” for quite some time now, so we like to think that our transit system’s support of the hometeam had something to do with the celebration last night.

For the second time in three seasons, World Series baseball games will be played in San Francisco beginning tomorrow. Get ready, y’alls!


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Geary Bus Rapid Transit: Ever-Elusive, Now Also Mysterious

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Photo by Brandon Doran

A survey of 600 Muni riders found that half of them have never heard of the Geary Corridor Bus Rapid Transit project, according to a Bay Citizen report. Some 57 percent of those surveyed by the San Francisco Transit Riders Union did not know about the project.

So, for the curious minds wondering WTF we’re talking about:

San Francisco County Transportation Authority planners say that the bus rapid transit project would transform the line that carries 50,000 riders a day, the most in the system, into something more like a train. With a dedicated bus lane in each direction, low-floor buses would arrive at more regular intervals to carry passengers between the quiet west side of the city and downtown. It’s scheduled to open in 2019.

There you have it: it’ll happen seven years from now. The Bay Citizen explains the resources that are being spent on rider outreach about the project:

The authority is paying a pretty penny for publicizing the project. A total of $270,000 is going to two big-name consulting firms – Barbary Coast Consulting, based in San Francisco, and Circlepoint in Oakland – to handle communications and outreach from 2008 through 2013, according to the transportation authority.

The planners told the Bay Citizen that they have bought ads, sent mailings, hung posters, and held meetings to “more than 25 community groups this summer about the bus rapid transit on Geary.”

They’re looking to do something similar on Van Ness. Editor’s note: PLEASE GOD MAKE IT SO!

Category: News

Punk Rock Posters, Starring Muni

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Situationist pamphlet by David Jacobs, USA, 1973. Source: Punk: An Aesthetic.

Look familiar?

Reader Meli (of Bikes and the City) found Muni in some unexpected places via this rad story on The Art of Punk and the Punk Aesthetic.

Here’s another familiar sighting in a Sex Pistols poster.


Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant poster, UK, 1977. Design: Jamie Reid. Source: The Art of Punk (Omnibus Press)

Thanks, Meli!

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