Weekend Photos: Hey Sneakerheads


Photo by Flickr user Brian Brooks

It’s been a pretty great week despite the fog…Prop 8, Elena Kagan, restoring some Muni service…in other Muni news:

  • Fatter checks for Muni drivers (SF Examiner)
  • Transportation officials to review Muni pay hikes (ABC 7)
  • Battle over control slows drive for Muni reform (SFGate)
  • Plan to increase penalties for crime on Muni moves forward (City Insider)
  • Newsom and SFMTA Announce Partial Service Restoration for Muni (SF Citizen)
  • Planners to discuss land use issues of Central Subway at SPUR (Under the Dome)
  • Guilty plea in Muni assault on actor (SFGate)
  • ‘The Other Guys’ Movie Poster Disarmed By Muni (SF Weekly)
  • What is Muni worth? (City Insider)
  • Safety escorts become available for Muni riders (ABC 7)

Enjoy your weekend and these photos!

Save your energy
Photo by Flickr user Justin Beck

SF Ballet Dancer Thwarts Would-be iPhone Thief on BART


Photo by annnna_

Via SF Weekly’s The Snitch, BART Diaries has learned of at least one iPhone owner who refused becoming another theft-victim:

“He hit me as hard as he could four times, and I just stood there, like dazed. I was like, you just got four free shots and you didn’t take me down. And then in a split second I decided I’m going to kill him. He unleashed the beast. I am basically 98-percent muscle, I’m a professional athlete, and all my muscle was on him. I pounced on him like a tiger.”

Read the whole story here.

Expect Muni Delays This Evening*

Moments after I Took This
Photo by Rubin 110

Ahead of today’s U.S. District Court ruling on Prop. 8 (OVERTURNED!), SFMTA posted when and where to expect delays this evening. Throngs of San Franciscans are expected to celebrate Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling, which overturned the ban on same-sex marriage:

  • Rail lines: F.
  • Bus routes: 6, 19, 21, 22, 24, 35, 37, 47, 49, 71, 71L.
  • Area: Upper Market, Civic Center.
  • Date: Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010.
  • Time: 5 to 6:45 p.m.

Due to a rally, there may be delays on the F Line and the 24, 35 and 37 routes in the vicinity of Castro and Market from 5 to 6 p.m.

Due to a march beginning at 6 p.m., Muni may be subject to delays on surface lines and routes along Market Street and in the Civic Center area.

* You’re probably thinking: Expect delays all the time. But we feel now’s not the time to be cynical. That’ll probably pick up again, oh, in the morning.

SFMTA and Newsom Announce 61% Muni Service Restorations by Labor Day Weekend

Screwed by MUNI Again
Photo by Anna Conti

Hey, good Muni news — Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today that Muni will restore 61 percent of the service cuts you saw in May (see the story by Streetsblog San Francisco, SFGate, and SFAppeal). The poor lines that got cut (which you all so eloquently eulogized in our Muni Obituaries) aren’t coming back, but you will see changes, including more weekday and weekend service hour, less wait time for Owl Service, and restored light rail vehicle service.

How did this happen? SFMTA says it identified $15 million in one-time allocations from county and regional agencies, and operational savings like reducing stand-by hours for operators.

How has your Muni experience been since the service cuts, and which service are you most looking forward to having back? Sound off in the comments, please.

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