Photo Diary: Last Bloom of the Year
Photo by Timbuk2 Designs
Is there anything better?
More Celebs on the Subway
Neo has such good subway manners! Watch Keanu Reeves move robotically to give up his seat. Warms my heart.
Everyone is good enough to ride public transportation. Celebrities On The Subway proves the point with yet more celeb pics snapped in the subway in New York. Check it out.
Babs!
Mr. Silver Fox. Does anybody remember him from Channel One?
Now, I’m still waiting to see Danny Glover on Muni…
Muni News: Hella Clipper card users, free Muni on NYE
Photo by Lynn Friedman
- Bay Area Clipper card users top 1 million (SF Examiner)
- Two Muni Muggings Reported Sunday (BCN via SF Appeal)
- It Ain’t Easy Being Muni (Huffington Post San Francisco)
- Ride Muni Free On New Year’s Eve (SFist)
- SF officer pepper-sprayed during scuffle with Muni rider (KTVU News)
- Bay Area transit projects lose out on federal cash (SF Examiner)
- Muni police cracking down on fare cheats (Nevius at SFGate)
- Starting in 2012, Aaron Bialick Will Be Steering Streetsblog SF (Streetsblog SF) Congrats, Aaron!
Weekend Photos: Our $2 Holiday Chariot
Photo by Steve Rhodes
If you’re looking for something fun to do, Broke Ass Stuart is hosting “It’s a Jewish Christmas” on Christmas Day from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Make-Out Room on 3225 22nd Street between Mission and Valencia. There will be Chinese food, Woody Allen films, and of course, Stuart himself. I’ll see you there.
Happy holidays, everybody. Enjoy these photos and your (we hope) long weekend!
Photo by Lynn Friedman
Photo by Lorcan Keating
Photo by Robert B. Livingston
30-Stockton and 45-Union/Stockton Reroute to Last Four Years
Photo by Jamison Wieser
Muni Diaries has learned that the 30-Stockton and 45-Union/Stockton will be rerouted in the Union Square area beginning next month due to Central Subway construction. The reroutes will last “approximately four years.” A temporary shuttle will be implemented for the 8 routes.
From the SFMTA:
[A]s of Jan. 21 the 30 Stockton and 45 Union-Stockton Muni routes will be rerouted from Stockton and 4th streets to Mason and 5th streets for the duration of Central Subway construction around Union Square, approximately four years. A temporary 8 Shuttle route will be in place between Broadway and Kearny Street and SoMa to ensure sufficient downtown capacity on the 8X Bayshore bus routes.
The 30 and 45 routes use trolley buses that require an overhead catenary wire system to power the vehicles. As construction advances for the Central Subway Union Square utility relocation and station construction, these routes must be modified to accommodate the construction activity along Stockton Street. More flexible motor buses are used for the 8X routes and will be used for the 8 Shuttle that will continue to operate down Stockton Street during peak service hours until later in the construction schedule.
Central Subway Transit Impacts
30 Stockton and 45 Union-Stockton Reroute
Southbound buses travelling to 3rd and Townsend streets will be rerouted onto Sutter Street, then south on Mason Street, east on Market Street and south on 5th Street.
Northbound buses will remain on their regular route.8 Shuttle Service
The 8 Shuttle will operate seven days a week from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The shuttle route will begin at Kearny and Pacific then left on Broadway, left onto Stockton Street, cross Market Street onto 4th Street, turn left onto Folsom Street and left on 3rd Street.
The terminal for the Chinatown Shuttle will be at Kearny and Pacific.
The 8X/8AX/8BX Bayshore buses will maintain their current routes, according to the agency. The lines “will be rerouted at a later date to accommodate additional construction activity.”
Super Creepy Muni Graffiti
Photo by Rajesh Kumar
What must we sacrifice to Saint Nicholas so that he will bring me the XBox 360 Kinect with XBox Live GOLD?