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.)
Got a BART story? @bartdiaries is your place to share it.
Snazzy new fareboxes: Coming soon to a Muni near you
Last week, we told you about the end of an era: the departure of paper transfers because SFMTA was looking to upgrade farebox technology. This week, SFMTA approved the new fareboxes, diagrammed above, that will print out receipt-like transfers when you board the bus, reports SFBay.ca. The approved contract for $21.9 million will mean the installation of 1,336 new fareboxes for cash-paying riders, according to SFBay.ca.
Here’s what the new transfers will look like:
Yeah, well, OK. While the images feel more descriptive of a Vertsateller machine from the ’80s or a prop from Back to the Future, we accept that it’s probably more efficient, if less “San Francisco” — an outcome that always requires at least one sad face emoji.
That’s right, gone are those nights when you feel like you’ve won the lottery because the driver gave you a Late Night transfer, so get your nostalgic transfer shirts (or tattoos) soon.
Photo credit: SFBay.ca
Next-level needlepoint celebrates BART, Bart
Alex asks on Twitter: “What have I become? I just spent the last several hours making BART fan art.”
To which we answer: You’ve become our favorite person on the internet this week. Is the Muni map next?
@bartdiaries — and probably Bart Simpson — do not have a cow and approve this message.
Photo by @lexammmm
BART engages LA Metro in Twitter haiku battle
Oh shit, pop the popcorn, you guys! Here it all is, in the order in which it transpired.
We challenge @metrolosangeles to a transit poetry slam. Haikus only.
Your move, LA.
— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Believe it or not
There's a subway in LA
(Transit, not sandwich)@metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Remember the days
When the federal gas tax
Kept pace with pop. growth?@metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Accept our challenge
Your silence is deafening
NorCal is best Cal@metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Metro palms kiss sun
Tracks to sand, mountain, stars
BART has hammer pants #transithaiku @SFBART— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Seventy-three wins
This was your reality
Yet no ring to show@SFBART #wewentthere— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Pied Piper Hooli
Tech bros in Dolores Park
We just chill and ride@SFBART— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Metro palms kiss sun
Tracks to sand, mountain, stars
BART has hammer pants #transithaiku @SFBART— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
SNAP!
BART runs trains on time
Better than a traffic jam
(It's five, seven, five)— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Seventy-three wins
This was your reality
Yet no ring to show@SFBART #wewentthere— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
#weaksauce
Found: A very special manspreader
Attention, everyone: We’ve found the most special man in San Francisco! You know how we know? Look at him here on Muni: his very special, large but delicate balls need — no, we should say deserve — their own space while he reads his very special book, probably pondering especially important thoughts that only he can conjure, because he is such a special unique snowflake. How dare you suggest that he should scoot over for someone else to sit down while he is doing such important work? His universe has no time for such pedestrian ideas like kindness and courtesy, so leave this special man be!
We found this latest manspreading offender courtesy of Muni rider Jack Lakeshore on the Muni Diaries Facebook page. If you find any other special people on Muni like this guy or this equal-opportunity womanspreader, holler at us #munidiaries.