Judgment Day for Muni
Muni has teamed up with X-tian wackos in promoting Judgment Day, also known as The Rapture. It is due to occur next month.
Mark your calendars, everyone.
Muni Neck Tattoo
Photo by t.twelve
We don’t quite get why, either. Pascal shared this bit of skin art with us. Reminded us of some other curious epidermis inkings we’ve seen:
Last week, we posted this Fast Pass tattoo. Looks really detailed. And we agree: Muni operators should let her ride for free owing to this bit of awesomeness.
We found this amazing F-Market tattoo last June. The photo doesn’t do the tattoo justice.
This one still leaves us scratching our heads a little. But then, it involves the Muni worm logo, which, nuff said. Photo by 0x0000org
Know of any other Muni tattoos? Let us know!
Win $150 for Your Muni Photo
Photo by Anthony Brown
Update: Deadline extended to May 20!
You can win $150 and publication in Bay Nature magazine by submitting your photo to our Endanger Bus Photo Contest. The contest ends this weekend and we’ve got prizes ready to hand out. The contest will be judged by Cheryl Haines, director of Haines Gallery and executive director of the FOR-SITE Foundation, which she established in 2003 to support art about place.
The contest challenges you to photograph these beautifully wrapped buses roaming around town, courtesy of the EndangerBus project by artist Todd Gilens.
The contest ends this Sunday, April 10. Details :
Endangered Species buses Photo Contest
Find the Endangered Species buses (see bus tracker below) and catch them with your camera in motion or at rest.
Enter up to four images by emailing them to endangerbuscontest@baynature.org (minimum 1500 pixels in length or width)
Prizes
First place receives $150 and publication in Bay Nature Magazine.
Second place receives two tickets to the San Francisco Zoo and two $10 Clipper Cards.
Five other entrants will be picked at random to receive $10 clipper cards.
ENTRY DEADLINE: 11 p.m., April 10, 2011 Extended to May 20!
To find the Endanger buses, check out the real time bus tracker that Gilens created with GreenInfo Network on the EndangerBus.org website:
Via @cripsahoy, ‘Muni drinking game rules’
Photo by arlen
We found this genius drinking game over at A Streetcar Named Taraval:
Take a shot:
• You get short turned (two if it’s before sunset ave or 10+ blocks from home)
•An exotic animal is on the ride
•Your L somehow turns into an M between Church and CastroSip your beer when:
•Fare evaders hop on
•Kid tagging the inside of the bus
•The vehicle has that fresh San Francisco urine/weed aroma
•Hipster dude hits you in the face with his brand new chrome bag (take another sip if he has an ironic mustache or hat. And another if he has a dumb looking tattoo)
We’d add a drink for every time a yeller gets on and addresses the entire bus. And when someone’s bulbous balls — literally or figuratively — make them spread out, at-home style, into your space.
Read on at A Streetcar Called Taraval.
Will Muni’s unfunded improvement plan actually improve Muni?
Photo by Telstar Logistics
Now, SFMTA has brought TEP back to the forefront. SFGate reports:
The Municipal Transportation Agency launched the 18-month Transit Effectiveness Project — with great fanfare, extensive research and many community meetings — in 2006 and adopted it in 2008. Since then, with the agency facing budget crises, the plan sat idle, used only to help decide where service should be slashed.
Now Muni is dusting off the recommendations, beginning a required environmental review process that could take up to two years and restarting community meetings to discuss such controversial proposals as consolidating bus stops to speed service and stringing new overhead wires so Muni can change routes.
Read the rest of the story at SFGate. And tell us: What do you think about TEP’s plans to improve Muni? And how on earth will they find the funding to implement this?
We understand the “OMG I HATE MUNI” sentiment, but this could be your chance to offer realistic suggestions on how we can make it better. More back-door boarding crackdowns? Working with the driver’s union? Eating cake? Weigh in down in the comments.
Hot on Twitter: Best- and Worst-Dressed Muni Line?
Photo by Kelly Nicolaisen
We’ve featured fashionable Muni riders in the past, including some terrific photos of the fashion tribes of San Francisco. Is your line the best or worst dressed? Tell us about the fashionable people on your bus, or those who might deserve wrath from Joan Rivers.