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Unfortunately, the nice kids interviewed in the news clip didn’t have much to say about their frustration other than, “I saw this other guy punching it with his fists. I thought it was interesting so I tried kicking it.” Is the subway system in Shanghai so efficient that the riders don’t have more colorful complaints? I can only imagine a swinging punchbag at the Van Ness station. Good times.
Read the rest of story at HuffPo.
Photo by Black Hour
Update (1:38 p.m. Thursday): SFist reports that a protest will take place at Civic Center Station today at 4:30.
Update (7:35 a.m. Thursday): BART was pretty cryptic in their message last night. We found this on SFGate: Possible protests related to July BART Police shooting.
Original post: I just don’t know what this could be (too many possibilities, really), but from the BART.gov website:
Please be advised that protesters may attempt to disrupt train service during August commute periods beginning as early as Thursday, August 11, 2011 in downtown San Francisco BART stations.
Read the rest of the advisory on the BART website. And plan ahead?
Mari spotted this four-legged friend on the 10-Townsend the other morning. Oddly, the dog doesn’t appear to magically be making everyone around it happy. We’re scratching our heads.
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Word is that the project won’t be completed until 2017, but you should tell BART.gov what you think of the seats via the feedback form or at the open houses that BART will be hosting. The photo above is option A, featuring a center arm rest and head rests for window seats.
Here’s option B, featuring an “informal, open-style lounge” in the middle of each car.
Option C features artistic “S” shaped poles and “portals at the end of some cars for kids to see track and tunnel walls whiz by the front of the train as it speeds down the track.”
Here’s a nifty video of the proposals, set to music, even:
Of course, we know many of you have your own ideas of seating on public transit. And these proposed seats don’t look much like the comfortable subway living room in Prague. But maybe that’s a good thing.
Muni has plenty of other things to say, too. For example, your daily bus can apologize:
The fare gates have been known to have quite an attitude:
And who can forget the bus that speaks teenager?
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While I waited in the Powell station yesterday for an N train that never seems to come, I did manage to capture a series of photos showing other people catching the train. I turned the photos into a .gif.
Awesome new activity while you wait for the bus. Thanks, Doug!
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