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Update (9:14 a.m., Friday morning): Rider Dawn sent us this photo of a legion of 33-Stanyans backed-up after the accident described below.
Original post:
Photo taken by the unstoppable @laurao of @caltraindiaries fame. Taken near Noe and 18th Street.
One of our favorite SF photogs, posting on our favorite SF photo site, gives us this beauty today. Thanks, Julie!
Click here much for a much bigger, even more gorgeous version of the image.
Hi. Just a quick post to shamelessly plug a new feature on Muni Diaries. We’re calling it Muni Time Capsule, and it is what it sounds like: A place for all things having to with Muni history, like old photos, schedules, brochures, etc. Yes, the history of Muni is being written every day by you, dear rider. But Muni Time Capsule is a place for transit enthusiasts and the rest of us to gather and peer back. To a time before we all hated one another, a time when maps and schedules were drawn by hand, mimeographed, and otherwise made with sweat, blood, and tears.
So take a look at the Muni Time Capsule about page for a better understanding of what to expect over there. It works the same way Muni Diaries works: content will be provided by you and by us, so send us your relics today!
And check out the first post, a 1982 service changes brochure, courtesy longtime SF resident and transit geek, Randy Alfred. Pretty, pretty pamphlet …
Photo by Flickr user anitakhart
Within a span of 12 hours, I’ve seen two people on Twitter compare shittiness in some other system to Muni.
(via @troy) i think AT&T & Muni have the same biz model: over promise and under deliver. raise prices, lower SLAs. i hate them both equally.
(via @whole_tost) Damn you firefox, you used to take five minutes to load, now it takes 20! Starting to become the next Muni…
I’m not going to pretend to scratch my head over this phenomenon. Instead, I’m wondering how many other metaphors we can come up with. I’m thinking:
Dude, this elevator is taking as long per storey as Muni does per mile. Ouch.
Or:
The sidewalks on Valencia are all Muni’d these days.
Or something. Got any other Muni metaphors? Let us know in comments please.
Photo by carolina naftali
I really like this photo. Anyone care to guess/extract where this is? Here’s a link to the original.
Rider Erik alerted us to a preschooler series called “Cubbie the Cable Car,” where the cable car is the star of the show. Erik says this series is home to “the humorous adventures of Cubbie and his friends as they ferrry people up, down and all around 1890 San Francisco.” So, parents, take note: it’s never too early to groom your children to be future transit fans.
Thanks, Erik!
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