Where Banksy Meets Caltrain
Photo by Angela Kilduff
Muni Diarist Eugenia also nabbed a photo as she sped by this morning.
Anyone know who’s behind this imitation/emulation or when it showed up?
Muni News: Mayor says ‘no,’ Muni bleeds more cash, traffic disruptions
- SFPD Cracks Down On Counterfeit Muni Transfers, Arrests Two (SF Appeal)
- One job Mayor Ed Lee doesn’t want: Muni boss (SF Gate)
- Muni agrees to $5.4M settlement with bike rider (Oakland Tribune)
- BART board delays vote on late-night service trial (SFGate)
- [Hella] Weekend Traffic And Transit Disruptions: Critical Mass, Triathalon, Pride Events, Lots More (SF Appeal)
- Today’s Meltdown? Muni Malfuntion Snarls Trains in Tunnel (SF Weekly)
- Muni Says They’ll Crack Down On Drivers Who Leave You Hanging (SF Appeal)
Ride public transit from SF to LA. Seriously.
The N-Owl pulls up at Haight and Fillmore at 4:11 a.m. Somewhat surprisingly, it already has 16 passengers. Not surprisingly at all, the bus is already thick with the official Muni odor — BO ineffectively masked by Old Spice with hints of pee. Sunflower seeds are scattered beneath the seats and the floors are already movie theater-sticky. A man wearing a Philadelphia Eagles knit cap repeatedly smacks himself on the forehead; his pensive expression indicates some elusive knowledge is on the tip of his tongue. The driver’s eyes meet mine. He exhales deeply. “It’s Monday,” he sighs.
Knit cap man stumbles off the bus at Fourth and King streets along with all the other riders. It’s a shade after 4:30, and the Caltrain station glows like a beacon. Every last soul on the 4:55 train to San Jose is blearily staring at something: a computer screen, a newspaper, or simply straight ahead in an early morning stupor. No train car has more than three riders seated in it; it’s a tight-knit club, and the passengers and ticket-checkers are on a first-name basis.
But once you venture past familiar cities, Joe says, you go beyond “the point where passengers are riding transit because it’s convenient or environmentally responsible. This is the trip of last resort.”
Read about the rest of his trip on SFWeekly’s cover story.
Open Thread: Can’t Keep Up with the Fail
Seriously, I can’t keep up:
- I wonder how many people get fired for getting to work late thanks to #muni delays. I hope I’m not one of them! – @JennieGoingWest at 9:51am
- N-Judah Muni is stuck at Church and Duboce. #SFFail #lateatwork – @mattdupont at 9:49am
- ppl sitting in the aisles of stalled J-church working on laptops – maybe we can hack into the control system & get this thing moving #muni – @cydharrell at 9:47am
- Always nice to see blood on #muni http://twitpic.com/5g6q2x – @fsaechou at 9:24am
- #SFMuni doing what they do best. Losing money. http://lockerz.com/s/113672948 – @Dahveee at 7:43am
Talk about these fails or anything else you feel like in this open thread.
Did you see this Muni incident this afternoon?
Reader Karl snapped this pic from his apartment today around 2:30 p.m. He says:
“Ellis was completely blocked the entire time. Looks like both cars were totaled…saw someone being carried from the bus on a stretcher. The lady in the black car was sitting in the driver side until paramedics arrived, but she didn’t appear to be too badly hurt…I didn’t see much outside of the aftermath.”
Did you see this incident? It looks like a 49, and Karl says it took more than an hour to clean up the scene. Send us more info if you’ve got it, and let us know here or @munidiaries on Twitter if things are wonky on Van Ness.
It is certainly not a good day for Muni vs. Other Object, so we’re hoping everyone involved is OK.
Muni bus crashes perpendicularly in front of cafe
Photo by Wayne Willyard, proprietor of Specimen Designs
As reported by @SFMayorTracker, well, this. This report by BCN on the SF Examiner site explains how it happened. Which is nice, because we had been scratching our heads trying to imagine that.