Gallery: Muni Portraits

a happy couple waiting for the bus

San Francisco is a city of characters and photographer Robert B. Livingston captured many of them in transit in this photo gallery. From clown going home on a slow day at Fisherman’s Wharf to a sweet couple waiting for Muni, every photo seems to be the start of a story — a Muni story, maybe?

More of Robert’s photographs of people on Muni:

Clown going home

urbane young couple on the N Judah

Rebbe Jerome St. Laurence

a cheerful man

Webster on the 45

Weekend Photos: Into and Out of the Fog

the devil's in the details
Photo by blarfiejandro

This Saturday is the San Francisco Santarchy, when hundreds of Santas will descend on San Francisco. So take some pictures and show them to those pesky people who told you Santa Claus doesn’t exist! And if you catch St. Nick on Muni, you know we’re dying to see it.

The main starting point is at the Civic Center station at 12:30 p.m., so get your red velvet outfits ready.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!

Market St. - Fog & Muni
Photo by amy halverson

San Francisco MUNI Station Ceiling
Photo by Eric Wagner

cable car pulleys
Photo by Robert B. Livingston

Night Train F Market
Photo by Telstar

Muni News: Permanent NX-Judah, Muni money, BART copper thief suspect

Streetcar Steam #2
Photo by M. J. Kelley

  • San Francisco coughs up $8M in Muni health costs (SF Examiner)
  • SFMTA Votes To Make Nx Judah Express Bus Permanent, Let It Run Later (SF Appeal)
  • SFMTA CFO, Prop A Revenue bonds for critical upgrades approved (Rescue Muni)
  • SFMTA authorizes $170 million in revenue bonds (SF Examiner)
  • Contract awarded to build BART in Santa Clara County (SFGate)
  • SF supervisors to Muni management: Get your act together (City Insider)
  • BART copper theft: SF man held after home searched (SFGate)
  • SFMTA in no rush to add new express bus routes in San Francisco (SF Examiner)
  • Muni budget outlook dims (SF Examiner)
  • List: Why BART Might Cut Your Cell Service (humor) (SF Weekly)

I met you on the bus. Will you marry me?


Photo by Hello!Lucky

Christina (she of tweetsweet fame) alerted us to Cameron’s charming proposal story. Cameron proposed to “bus girl” via the rad paper book you see up there, which was made by Hello!Lucky. Here’s his story.

A few years ago I was waiting to catch the 1-California home from work when I saw a girl with glasses who immediately stood out in my mind. Looking back I have memories of thinking something like, “That’s a girl I could see standing next to me for the rest of my life.” Soon after that I noticed she also rode the same Golden Gate Transit bus I rode to San Rafael for work. Quite a few times we’d stand next to each other waiting for the 1, me trying to appear like I wasn’t paying attention to her. This tandem bus ride schedule went on for a couple weeks, but eventually I stopped seeing her on the bus.

A number of months and a relationship came and went. From time to time I’d wonder what happened to the bus girl. One day she appeared on my Golden Gate Transit bus. We began to smile at each other every now and then, but still we generally acted like we didn’t know the other was there. This game went on for a while, but eventually I decided it was time that I actually said hello to the bus girl. One day I sat down next to her on the bus. In my best I’m-not-trying-to-hit-on-you voice said, “Hi, I’m Cameron. I feel like we should know each other.”

I later learned that for that year and a half of talking about the “bus girl” with my friends, her friends had been calling me “bus boyfriend.” People like to give us a hard time for taking so long to say hello to one another, but we agree that we’re glad it took that long. We both changed a lot in that year and a half, every bit of it getting our personalities in just the right place for when we finally did meet.

Here are more images from his paper-proposal:


Photo by Hello!Lucky


Photo by Hello!Lucky

I’ve run out of ways to say “rad.” Congrats, Cameron and fiancée!

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