Transit News: Record BART riders, SF transit handles busy weekend, Central Subway money and lawsuits

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  • BART Announces Record Weekend Ridership (SF Appeal)
  • Transit strategy bodes well for ’13 Cup (SFGate)
  • This Weekend’s Traffic Frenzy: A Success for Sustainable Transportation? (Streetsblog SF)

  • “E for Effort” — Hectic Weekend Taught Lessons (Market Street Railway)
  • Muni expects $942 million in Central Subway funding (SF Examiner)
  • Central Subway subject of suit (SFGate)
  • Muni Bus Withstands Gunshot Damage (SF Appeal)
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To chase a Muni bike thief, or not to chase?

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Photo by miggslives

San Francisco seems to alternate between a town of “Genovese syndrome” bystanders and Wild West-style vigilantes. To note, this tweet from @bpelletier1:

A guy stole a bike off the front of a 5 Fulton last night. Bike owner chased the man down on Market Street. What would you do?

We’ve got to wonder, too: Would you chase? If you’re smart enough to know how to get your bike on those bus racks in the first place, that is.

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22 Muni and BART Cuties on Refinery29

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Photo via Refinery29 and Anna-Alexia Basile

Stylish commuters got a nod of approval today from fashion mag Refinery29’s street style story. We’ve always known you were a good looking bunch, and now you can see more of your sartorially-inclined fellow riders struttin’ their stuff.

Stylish guys got some love too. (My own favorite is still our Bryan Boy look-alike found on Muni. Remember him?)

May we suggest adding this dapper young lad to the mix? He really knows how to work a houndstooth cap.

See the other 20 stylish folks on Muni and BART, as captured on Refinery29.

Category: Aww: Cute on Muni

My Muni (Mewni) Never Looks Like This

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I ask, simply, why the 38-Geary (and its passengers — note the kids in the front piloting this beast) doesn’t look like this always, forever.

This 38/freakishly excited cat-ipede traveled to our eyeballs via Benjamin Seto on Facebook. In a comment, Benjamin notes that he used to take the 38 a lot when he’d hang in the city. I’m jealous that this was his takeaway from that experience, because I can say with certainty that this has never been my takeaway from that experience. Takes an artist’s eye, I s’pose.

Is Muni your muse? ’cause it’s proven time and again to be a good one. Send us a Muni story describing your latest adventure.

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SFMTA wants you to help fix Muni

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Seems everyone and their mom is on the innovation bandwagon here lately, or is it just me? In any case, here’s the latest slick effort to improve public transportation in San Francisco: re-route/sf.
From re-route/sf‘s mission statement:

Hattery Labs, along with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), City Planning Office, and Mayor’s Office, are co-sponsoring a hackathon to use technology, existing data, and new ideas to improve how SFMTA provides services, collects information, and interacts with its customers. This briefing summarizes the challenges that SFMTA is inviting the San Francisco community to address in the hackathon as well as some of the other questions that might stimulate creative solutions to other transportation problems.

And here’s how they plan to do such a thing:

1. Collect the right data.
2. Plan a trip anywhere — on-time.
3. See what’s broken and watch it get fixed.

Ambitious? Something you’d participate in? Let us know your thoughts.

Via @appliedluck

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