Your previous evening in BART tweets

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10:30 BART Powell to PBP, standing room only. on Twitpic
Photo by teoco

Man, it sure seemed packed on the BART system Thursday night. Here are a few choice tweets describing the various scenes:

@teoco: 10:30 BART Powell to PBP, standing room only. http://twitpic.com/nhgrm

@meannie: By Powell station Bart train completely packed. Craziness for 10:26 pm. They should’ve gone 24 hrs http://twitpic.com/nhgsa

@jtabergas Whoa. At 10:30pm, BART to Easy Bay is standing room only. http://twitpic.com/nhgrm

@RachRachGold entirely too many people on #bart for 10:30pm on a thurs Ugghhh. Thought there were gonna b more trains?! http://yfrog.com/j84xij

@jamesjgriffin BART was way way way too crowded tonight. The bridge might open tomorrow.

Did you ride BART last night? Tell us about it in comments.

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From the blog to the stage: Muni Diaries Live!

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Muni Diaries
Photo by Troy Holden

Not leaving anything to chance, consider this your formal, on-the-site reminder of your Friday plans this week. It’s Hallo-weekend, after all. We’ve got a lot of competition.

Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence
Friday, October 30, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Free (hear that, broke-asses? Though the bar will be charging to get you under the influence, there’s no cover!)
Make-Out Room — 3225 22nd Street
Routes serving the area: BART 24th St. Station, 12, 14, 22, 26, 33, 48, 49, 67
Lineup includes: The Cock-Ts, Shane Papatolicas, the winning Muni Erotic fiction post, and more that we’re not at will to discuss (though we will discuss the prizes being given away by some rad people).

See you Friday!

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Your day in BART tweets

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No lights on the Bay Bridge
Photo by Flickr user engnr_chik

All hell is breaking loose on the Bay Bridge, of course. Well, maybe not all hell. And not even all of the bridge. But shit is broken, and transbay commuters faced a choice this morning: Play hooky, or “brave it” on BART. Here are some of the more amusing tweets we found on this topic:

trebledmind Bay Bridge closure – planning for it = Crowded BART + stink

SFcalafia Lots of clueless BART riders today.

connortmcdonald Ooohh look at the adorable newbie BART riders b/c the Bay Bridge is closed/falling down. So cute when they forget to hold on.

morgandodge Overheard on BART: “Is there a nurse on this car?” Turns out there was and someone had passed out. I cannot drink this coffee fast enough.

itsjustgoldie BART was tight this morning. It was warm tho, better than the cold. But it felt like hot-mouth warmth, not heater warmth. *blorf*

Buttagood4you just because I didn’t give up my seat at bart does not mean I don’t have manners!

MrsGrams RT @someglory: Heard on BART: “I hear one of the major bridges is closed.”

HeyBarmold It’s like the Bay Bridge closed itself on purpose just to spite me. What’s got two thumbs and is stoked about the rookies on BART? This guy.

Here are some transit alternatives to BART, the alternative to trying to drive across a shut-down bridge.

Meanwhile, BART is offering a chance to win $100 by taking a bridge-closure survey. And Zog’s in San Francisco is offering free hot dogs to anyone with a BART ticket today.

As always, feel free to send your gripes and other observations to us here. Or email us here.

Category: BART, reflection

How many 14-Missions does it take?

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The 14-Mission, as seen through the back window of another 14-Mission, with another 14-Mission to its right. Photo by Tara.

Yeah, so Tara and I were lucky enough to have missed not one, but two 14-Missions on our way home from Bloodhound last night. We checked the NextBus marquee at Eighth and Mission only to discover that it would be seven minutes until the next bus arrived. It was a nice night out, windy but not too cold (or maybe our booze had us warm enough?), so we decided to walk up to at least South Van Ness, where we could catch a 49 or 14, whichever came first.

But miraculously, at Ninth, we noticed both 14s we had just watched fly by us, one parked at the stop, the other on the east side of the intersection, waiting its turn. We caught that second one.

Then, at Tenth, all hell broke lose when we lost the cables, sparks flying. Fine, typical enough event on an electric trolley in this town.

But by the time we recovered and made it up to Eleventh, we somehow (the physics of it escape me) passed that lead 14 (also electric), and then were soon tailed by a third 14. Three buses of the same route, all huddled a mere 15 or so blocks from the origin of the route. Amazing.

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