Muni Diaries

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SF Appeal reports that the new director of transportation, Ed Reiskin, will take your comments and questions about Muni at the Rescue Muni board of directors meeting tonight.

Details:
Where: SF County Fair Building, Ninth Avenue and Lincoln
When: 6 p.m.
How to get there: N, 6, 43, 44, 71

This is your chance to Muni’s new head coach whatever it is that’s pissing you off. Go!

Update (9:44 a.m. Monday): SF Weekly reports that the victim has been identified as 71-year-old Manuel Tomaneng.

Update (7:05 p.m.): SFGate reports that the pedestrian in the accident has died from the wounds he sustained.

Update (7:02 p.m.): CBS5 reports that a witness says the pedestrian was jaywalking when he was struck by the Muni bus.

Original post: SFGate reports that a Muni bus has struck a pedestrian in downtown, pinning the pedestrian under its wheels.

Police and firefighters shut down Fifth and Mission Streets for a block while they worked to free the man from under the bus. Using wooden planks, they lifted the bus, freed the victim and took him away in an ambulance. His condition was not known.

Read the rest of the story at SFGate. We’ll update here if we learn more.