Transit news: Pedestrian-friendly L, tech shuttle hub, new BART escalator etiquette
What’s going on in the transit world? Here’s this week’s news from some of our favorite sites:
- New proposal unveiled for pedestrian-friendly changes to L-Taraval (Hoodline)
- SFist extrapolates what Facebook, Google, and Apple employees think of tech shuttle hubs (SFist)
- Will public transit apps create customers or citizens? (Slate)
- BART Considers New Approach To Escalator Etiquette For Speedier Exit (CBS Local)
This photo of colorful Fast Passes is from @richardtamayo.
Muni Metro’s grammar moment: Comma, please
Let’s show a little love for the comma now and again, Muni. An em dash or semicolon are also, arguably, appropriate; but trying to add this comma via finger pad with any semblance of precision was tough enough.
Shouts to Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Cupid’s Span photobombing this grammar moment.
Attention: Goat on Muni!
Every once in a while, the universe gives you something really awesome, like a pet goat riding Muni. Can you spot the goat?
This Muni Diaries came from @jasonbraatz on Twitter, who says, “I’m on the 5-Fulton and there is seriously a goat on the bus.” Totally worth my $2.25 fare, don’t you think?
More animal kingdom on Muni over this way, please.
Photo by @jasonbraatz
Sometimes with Muni, all you can do is laugh
Current mood: 😒
h/t @madmaxflapper for tweeting this side-eyes-inducing gem. Love me some creative signage (and resulting Brangelina-style mashups), but you can sure be a cheeky bastard, Muni.
They’re just like us: Oakland A’s players on BART
Photo: CSN Bay Area Sports’ Brodie Brazil’s Facebook page
This isn’t a “who’s the asshole manspreading in the disabled seats” post — no, no, there is a special circle of Muni Diaries shame for those. Look closer, sports fans.
Per CSN Bay Area Sports’ Brodie Brazil, Oakland A’s pitcher Sonny Gray and outfielder Billy Burns, standing left, are hella taking BART. Major delays were predicted due to Bay Bridge construction, and these guys are clearly paying attention.
A reader/rider on the scene, who says this was taken after Monday night’s Battle of the Bay matchup against the Giants, commented on Brazil’s FB post, saying they were “so unassuming and could have been mistaken for regular college guys with their backpacks on!”
Those backpacks don’t happen to be designed by other Oakland A’s teammates and prominently (boldly, fantastically) feature unicorns?
Bonus: Gray is featured in the green-collar baseball ad near the middle of the pic.
(h/t: A’s fan Ericka. Go, Giants.)
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