Video: Stripper Routine/Interpretive Dance on BART
Kyle sent in this video:
Witnessed this on the Richmond line.
Whoa. Why doesn’t this ever happen when I’m riding BART?
Muni news: Subway money, out-of-town protesters, new SFMTA chief talks
Photo by O Caritas
- Supes OK $57 million for Central Subway tunnel (SFGate)
- Community BART seat labs finish up; next step will be public outreach on renderings (BART.gov)
- About half of arrested Muni shooting protesters live outside San Francisco (SF Examiner)
- Muni’s plan to make more money: rolling advertisements (SFGate)
- Streetscast: An Interview with New SFMTA Chief Ed Reiskin (Streetsblog SF)
- Pedestrian struck by Muni in downtown San Francisco; traffic snarled for hours (SF Examiner) || (SF Appeal)
- Muni Youth Passes Sold on Clipper Cards Only Starting August 1st (Akit’s Complaint Department)
Necessary Skills to Drive the 1AX-California
Photo by Tom Prete
Muni rider Susan wants to give her 1AX driver a high five. Here’s why.
She also has a great skill at driving the bus; she doesn’t feel the need to speed up, then jam on the brakes, sending all of the standees flying (a skill that would be good to teach most of the other 1AX drivers!).
A few months ago, to try to balance all my negative reports to Muni, I sent in a compliment about her, and printed out a copy to hand to her in case the Muni computer eats the compliments the way they seem to eat the complaints. She was really suprised to read that compliment, and now I always get greeted with a big smile.
THANK YOU #1619! You are a wonderful example of how Muni could be.
Ah, daydreaming now of “what Muni could be.” If you have more examples of exceptional Muni operators, let us know.
Update: Semi vs. Muni — Were You There?
Photo by @mikepreuss
Update (2:17 p.m.): More from our eyewitness and picture-taker: these vehicles were definitely touching and not moving at the time this photo was snapped, he says. Geographic location — and a commenter below — indicates that something’s directionally amiss. Still wondering what happened if anyone knows.
Rider @mikepreuss witnessed an accident between the 30-Stockton and a semi a little after midnight Friday morning. This looks to be around Chestnut and Pierce. Were you on this bus or near the scene? Let us know what you saw. Hope everyone was okay.
BREAKING NEWS: Kenneth Harding possibly died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds (update)
Update (4:46 p.m.): From SFGate: “Based on the findings of the medical examiner, at this time we believe he was fatally wounded by a .380-caliber bullet,” [SFPD Commander Mike] Biel told reporters this afternoon. “We believe the fatal wound to Mr. Harding’s body was self-inflicted.”
Original post: The victim of last Saturday’s Bayview killing, Kenneth Harding, possibly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound according to the San Francisco Medical Examiner. SF Appeal (via BCN) has the story.
It was originally reported that SFPD fired on Harding after he fired at them. The altercation took place following a fare inspection that Harding fled from.
We’ll update here as we learn more.
So, You Think You Can Plank?
Icing is so 2010. The cool kids this year are all about planking. They’re planking on Muni. And they’re planking on Caltrain, as captured by rider and Twitter user Scott Brown (above).
Riders of Muni, BART, and Caltrain, we’re issuing you a challenge: Email us your planking photos to us. We’ll post them next week and crown one lucky transit system the best for planking.
Now, go forth and Plank!