On the bus: “100 Muni Stories” Contest Winners!

 

Have you seen the two winners of the 100 Days, 100 Muni Stories contest on the bus today?

Earlier this summer, we hosted a “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” contest to celebrate Muni’s centennial. The prize for your awesome Muni tales? Your own spotlight on the bus! We looked through all the entries past and present, including submissions and tweets, and recruited Isaac Fitzgerald, the managing editor of The Rumpus, as the guest judge.

Our “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” winners are @scenechangego and @jeannabarrett, and you can see their tweets on buses starting this week!

In case you are new to Muni Diaries, we are just three blog nerds chained to our laptops in our living rooms, making a website for stories that happen on the bus. That is, we are an independent website and not affiliated with the SFMTA. So we were as surprised and excited as anyone can be when the SFMTA said we can have some ad space on the bus to feature your best stories and tweets!

Here’s Jeanna’s winning tweet:

Muni Diaries is your space to share stories, tweets, and photos that happen on public transit, so thank you to everyone who submitted to the contest and the site. Let’s blow up the party talk some more!

Muni Diaries “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” graphic design is by Lisa Wong Jackson. Check her out at Good on Paper.

Getting to Folsom Street Today


Photo by eric_harvieux

I had to repost this very memorable photo we found in 2010 for the occasion. If you’re heading down to Folsom Street Fair today, remember that 9 San Bruno, 12 Folsom-Pacific, 19 Polk, and 47 Van Ness will be affected from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

More importantly, tweet us (or email us) the funny, hot, weird, or just out of the ordinary stories that happen while getting from point A to B.

Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Folsom Street Fair Sunday

Honey, if you really love me you would buy me a ball gag made from a mooncake, because this is what’s happening this weekend in your weekend transit advisory:

Chinatown Autumn Moon Festival
The 22nd annual Chinatown Autumn Moon Festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day. For event details, please visit www.moonfestival.org

The following Muni routes will be affected:

    10 Townsend
    12 Folsom-Pacific
    1 California

Roadworks Street Fair

On Saturday the 9th Annual Roadworks presented by the San Francisco Center for the Books will take place from noon to 5 p.m. on Rhode Island Street between 16th and 17th streets. For event details, please visit sfcb.org/events/roadworks.

The following Muni routes will be affected

    10 Townsend
    19 Polk

Cole Valley Fair

On Sunday the 10th Cole Valley Fair will take place. For more details, please visit www.bazaarbizarre.org

The following Muni lines and routes will be affected

    N Judah
    6 Parnassus
    37 Corbett
    43 Masonic

Folsom Street Fair

On Sunday the Folsom Street Fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The following Muni routes will be affected:

    9 San Bruno
    12 Folsom-Pacific
    19 Polk
    47 Van Ness

Weekend Photos: Strangers We All Are


Photo by thisguyrr

Today’s top photo features a compelling portrait of a Muni rider, my personal favorite type of Muni photos. For good reason: after all, what’s a Muni ride without your stories?

On a related note: have you seen Muni Diaries on the bus lately? Our 100 Days, 100 Muni Stories winning ads are being installed this week, so if you see them on your bus, be sure to Instagram or tweet it at us @munidiaries!

For as much gripe as we air on the site (have you see our gripe category yet?), the folks at SFMTA still said ok to giving us some space to feature some of your top tweets and stories. We’re very excited to see the winning tweets go up on the buses. We’ll reveal the winners on the site on Monday so stay tuned!

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!


Photo by Robert B. Livingston


Photo by mikecampton


Photo by dynazour

Photo by fogcitykittie

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