Cal grad student envisions C-Circle Muni line

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Photo by Whole Wheat Toast

Market Street Railway wrote this week about extending the E-Embarcadero line, something they’ve been advocating for years.

Springboarding off a Streetsblog SF article about tearing down the northern end of Interstate 280, MSR blog points to an ambitious proposal by UC Berkeley grad student Ben Caldwell’s vision to take the E-Embarcadero streetcar line even farther: down through Dogpatch, then west to Noe Valley via a tunnel under Potrero Hill. We did mention that the plan is ambitious, right?

Being fans of transit and tunnels and transit tunnels, we like this bold idea. It’s at least worth reading up on. Do that over at MSR’s site now. Pancakes can wait.

49er pride and Muni’s plans for the Super Bowl

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Photo courtesy eze415 via @verbalcupcake

The Super Bowl is tomorrow. The San Francisco 49ers will play some football team or another in the Super Bowl. You will probably watch the game on TV, because you either a) are a 49ers fan, b) love commercials, c) both, d) are laid up in bed with that flu that’s going around, and have no choice but to watch the Super Bowl. Wait, are we allowed to write “Super Bowl”? I guess we have to hope so.

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Fish Torture and Piscicide on Muni

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You might want to finish your coffee cake. Muni rider Erica wants to tell you a story.

A guy got onto the bus with a fishing pole and a bucket of fish. Unbeknownst to us passengers, some of the fish were still alive. He proceeded to take fish from the bucket, look at them, talk to them and unfortunately, lose control of them when they wriggled from his grasp. One of them hit me in the foot when it skidded across the floor. He also pulled fish from the bucket and then dropped them back in, splashing a few of us with fish water. I moved after that. He continued to torture the poor fish and menace the passengers while the driver acted like nothing was happening.

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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

Charmed on the 17-Park Merced


Photo by kathleenma

100 Muni StoriesYou know when you see something cute, and it makes you wanna do funny things? It happened to @elissaANNtorres on Muni.

Cute dogs do it to me, though I doubt seriously I could get a dog to play patty cake with me.

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