Muni News: Part-time Muni drivers, BART on Halloween, Central Subway back-and-forth

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Photo by Kyle Sullivan

  • Supes To Discuss Report Slamming Central Subway Project Thursday (SF Appeal)
  • S.F. should stop syphoning funds from transit agency: mayoral candidate Adachi on Muni (SF Public Press)
  • Part time Muni drivers hit the streets (Rescue Muni)
  • Transit agencies urged to coordinate service (SFGate)
  • BART to run longer trains but no extended service on Halloween weekend and Oct. 31 (BART.gov)
  • Dozens Speak For, Against Central Subway At Supes Meeting (SF Appeal)
  • BART talks on cell phone blackouts extended (SFGate)

Halloween 2009 on Muni (and as Muni)

(Updated with new photos below)

I wasn’t afforded the luxury of spending my favorite day of the year here in my favorite city. But I’ve done you all a favor and rounded up some of the best shots of people in costume on Muni. There’s even one example (above, by @nikilips) of someone dressed up as an actual bus (the Owl, natch).

Enjoy, and happy Day of the Dead!


Photo by @JasonShen

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Photo by @jaenarae

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Photo by @fortydeucetwits


Photo by @msmiling07

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Photo by boyinsf

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Photo by CMRforall, who got onto an M this way!

You probably have shots of the be-costumed riding Muni, so why haven’t you sent them to us yet?

San Francisco Diaries: Finding the silver lining in teaching on Zoom

Educator Kelly Gregor Hartlaub had been a librarian for some time until the pandemic hit, until she was suddenly called back to frontline classroom teaching, on Zoom, for distance learning. Her first task as a Zoom teacher? Sex education. Yikes.

But that wasn’t even the hardest part. In today’s podcast episode, Kelly shares the emotional, mental, and practical challenges of distance learning, how she and fellow teachers kept going, and how an English-learning student having an especially hard time helped her in kind.

Listen to Kelly’s story:

We met Kelly a few years back, and here she is in the photo above (third from left), about to dig into a delicious burrito with some of San Francisco’s bloggerati (including Burrito Justice, Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight from The San Francisco Chronicle and the Total SF project, and yours truly).

We’re always looking for stories about how San Francisco has changed and transformed you, whether it happened on Muni or off. 

If you’ve been inspired by a story on our podcast or gone to one of our storytelling shows and imagined yourself on stage, we are here to help! Please email us your story idea at munidiaries.sf@gmail.com, or tag us @munidiaries on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

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