Photo Diary: Another kind of Outside Lands
Photo by adotjdotsmith from the Muni Photos Flickr pool
adotjdotsmith’s location info: Palm Avenue, Treasure Island. Such a nice subtlety to this photo. I’ve still never been to Treasure Island.
Photo Diary (of sorts): BART Art
Photo by itsolivia from the nascent BART Photos Flickr pool
So cool. And that’ll teach this San Franciscan to visit MacArthur for more than just a train-transfer.
Be sure to check out the new BART Photos group on Flickr, where you can add all your wonderful imagery. We’ll use the photos from time to time the same way we do on Muni Diaries, and we’ll always give the photographer credit.
Also, keep those BART diaries coming: bartdiaries@gmail.com.
Happy Thursday, and happy commuting!
Updated with Editors Note: Cobra Malt Liquor Through a Straw
A lot of you objected to the publication of a photo that rider Matthew took on the 19-Polk, of someone who he thought was a dead-ringer for Whitney Houston. Your comments are really valuable to us at Muni Diaries as we constantly walk the fine line between democratic forum and editorial integrity. We don’t often turn your posts away because we want to create a place where you can tell your stories, but we definitely don’t want to do this at someone’s expense. We’ve taken the picture down but left the text of the story here in the post. Agree or disagree with our decision? We want to know. Please tell us in the comments section. – Jeff and Eugenia
Original post:
Muni rider Matthew writes to tell of a possible celebrity-sighting on a San Francisco bus.
Tell me this wasn’t Whitney Houston! She was a “BOBBY!!” shriek away from a dead ringer.
Seriously, her makeup looked professionally applied, if a little too glittery for 3 p.m. If she wasn’t so wasted and her top wasn’t so stained with spilled liquids, I really would have thought it was the Diva Herself. God I hope those stains were just her drinks…
“Whitney” fell asleep long enough for me to snap her photo. She woke up soon after to root around in one of her bags for another Cobra Malt Liquor (which she drank through a straw, because as you can see, she is a LADY).
I can snap photos and poke fun because lord knows I’ve been that drunk lady on the bus a time or thousand.
Matthew has just become the first Muni-razzi. Seen any celebs or dead-ringers on Muni? muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com
No Man-Sitting!
Remember the big-balls-having guy from the first Muni Mind Reader episode, the guy whose nuts are so big they take up two seats?
Well, the ladies of Boston had enough of these guys too, and they’ve created a button warning against such behavior.
The AboutWomen project in Boston, who made the button above, also wrote a letter to the MBTA expressing their concern:
We’ve designed a badge for public transportation customers to wear in order to encourage passenger civility. We hope to raise awareness of fellow passenger’s comfort with this visual reminder.
Often, we believe, some T-riders aren’t aware that they’re taking up three seats with their knees. Of course, there are many other discourteous behaviors, like occupying additional seats with your belongings, but the particular posture depicted on our button is the most commonly complained about offense found in our survey of T- passengers.
Read the rest of the letter here.
Thanks to our friends at Tenderblog and the London Underground Tube Diary for this hilarious find.
Subway Etiquette, From Boston by Way of London
Photo by Flickr user levi mpls
The good folks over at Tenderblog alerted us to this post on Going Underground, a London Tube blog. It’s about a group of riders in Boston who’ve banded together to raise public awareness of what they call “Man-Sitting,” or the practice of taking up more than your allotted seat on the train or bus. More power to ya, Bostonians!
L-Taraval Crash This Afternoon
Photo by Earthnik
Update (8:36 p.m.): Earthnik sent us this photo (“one more showing minimal damage to the robust Muni train”)
Original post: Our Twitter feed is all abuzz about the L-Taraval crash this afternoon. Reader Kath also sent us an alert from her building guard, who saw the aftermath. According to SFGate:
The inbound L Taraval train was on Taraval Street when it collided with the car heading south on 34th Avenue at 12:09 p.m., Muni said. The male driver of the car was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with unknown injuries.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known. There are stop signs at the intersection for traffic on 34th Avenue but not for traffic on Taraval.
Another pic from Earthnik after the jump: