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Tfw it's raining so hard outside it's actually raining inside your @sfmta_muni bus đđđđ pic.twitter.com/y0K18cjHwv
— Josh Wilburne đ¤ˇââď¸ (@joshlikesdesign) January 19, 2017
With all the water falling from the sky (a good thing!) lately and the goings on in our nation’s capital today, methinks this GIF of rain inside a Muni bus is just about perfect …
Who loves shiny new Muni Metro trains … that arrived last week to begin track testing? Who’s a good dog?
h/t @JamisonSF, via @DiscoWieser
2017 is shaping up to be a killer sequel to 2016 … literally.
ABC 7Â reports that the body of a woman found dead on a Muni bus in Daly City likely died of meningitis.
Laura Kimberly Robson, 53, of San Francisco died last Tuesday and while medical officials wait for test results, they’ve told her family the likely cause of death was meningitis.
Robson’s family says they were told a bus driver found her sitting upright in a rear seat at the end of a line in Daly City.
They do not know how long she had been on the bus or when she passed away, but Muni immediately called Daly City police.
Read the rest of the story on ABC 7.
Scary stuff. Stay safe out there!
Photo by Paul Sullivan
A hundred Muni buses are being turned into mobile galleries for five local artists, voted by the public, in a project called Muni Art. You might remember this project last year, and this year SFMTA, Supervisor London Breed, and nonprofit SF Beautiful brought the project for another year.
This year’s winners:
Last year there were 50 buses displaying the winning artists’ work, and this year the project has doubled the number of buses. Here are this year’s winning artists:
Teens of SF by Monica Tiulescu
Bit by Bit by Lillian Shanahan
Las Historias by Luis Pinto
City Walks by Counterpoint Studio (Peter Tonningsen and Lisa Levine)
Sight Seeing by Todd Kurnat
Here’s a look at last year’s Muni Art winners. Have you seen the new art on your buses yet?
Grandparents are the best, especially when they bust out some serious vintage goodies like these amazing Fast Passes. Over on Reddit, we found this collection of 1970s Fast Passes given as a gift from some seriously awesome grandparents.
I mean, just look at these designs. Somehow I think our grandchildren aren’t going to be too excited when we dig up our Clipper cards to pass onto them.
Here’s the whole lot:
We love people who hang onto cool vintage stuff like this. Here are even more old Fast Passes through the years.
Got a story or vintage Muni goods from your time capsule? Muni Diaries only exists on your submissions! Tag us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Our email inbox muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com is always open!
Last night’s rain apocalypse caused a gnarly evening of commute on both BART and Muni. A tree fell on the tracks of the J-Church train in the photo above, blocking both directions. And a power outage shortly after 7 p.m. blocked all trains between Van Ness and Church, reports the San Francisco Examiner.
Earlier that evening, if you were amongst the evening commute crowd on BART, you’ll know that the fallen tree near the Balboa Station between 24th Street and Balboa station caused a BART outage that snowballed into this scene at BART, where riders were scaling the broken escalator:
Chaos erupts in the #MissionStreet #BART station as storm related delays frustrate riders: #SanFrancisco: https://t.co/2YXMVu4GEH. pic.twitter.com/KdtMvT4pMh
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) January 11, 2017
24th Mission Street Station Chaos. #SFBART #BART #SF .@SFBART pic.twitter.com/b5tlV3lUXz
â Charlie K. Perkins (@PerKerry) January 11, 2017
Sanfransokyo @nbcbayarea #sfbart pic.twitter.com/QAGRa8bs58
â Aleksey Smolenchuk (@lxe) January 11, 2017
As of 9 p.m. last night, service was still shut down between Daly City and 24th Street Station, says SFGate. Rescue trains came to get the stranded passengers to free Muni shuttles, reports SFist. In the East Bay, AC Transit buses were also backed up due to a power line falling near a school, reports SFGate.
Got commute updates for your fellow riders? Tag us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Our email inbox muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com is always open. Stay safe out there, everybody.