How to remove a Muni shelter from the street in four easy steps

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If you’re planning a grand heist involving a Muni shelter, Burrito Justice is here to help. He recently captured such a heist in action, as seen above and below, on Precita street.

Step 1: Obtain some fire trucks and firefighters to help you block off the street and oncoming traffic.

Step 2: Befriend your neighborhood tow truck operation and convince them that this is totally legit.

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Step 3: Sit back and admire the glorious Muni shelter elevated in all its glory. Live tweet or Snapchat optional.

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Step 4: Don’t forget the orange cones. Safety!

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We know that someone out there actually has an old-school Muni shelter in their possession from our 2010 Great Muni Shelter Giveaway. I wonder if that particular Muni stop will make a Burning Man appearance any time soon …

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Rolling out the red carpet for new Muni lanes

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They might be rolling out the red carpet for celebs at the Oscars this weekend, but here in San Francisco we’re getting a head start on the whole red carpet business. Via Burrito Justice, here is your daily dose of construction porn, Muni lane edition. I don’t know why I always assumed that the Muni lane was simply was painted red, but photos prove that’s not how it’s done!

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Pretty cool.

More insider peeks at building our transit:
Video: Construction of BART lines and stations in the 1960s
Amazing Photos Inside the Central Subway Tunnel

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Sneakers the Corgi teaches us all a lesson about riding Muni

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Wanna know why we love Sneakers the Corgi? I mean, aside from that winning smile and generally happy disposition? Sneakers always pays fare on Muni. Always. “O hai! #MUNI ticket for one corgi, please.” Although, we’d probably let Sneakers ride for free.

Previously on Muni Diaries:

Meet Sneakers, the Muni-riding corgi with the owl backpack
Because he’s Sneakers the Corgi, that’s why

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Muni looks at the future of San Francisco rail transportation

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San Francisco is growing, y’all. Like, hella. Muni is already unable to keep up with demand. But they want you to know that they totally got this. Well, kinda.

Last week, SFMTA released its Rail Capacity Strategy (PDF), a pretty comprehensive look at the current system and how it will need to grow to keep up with expected growth in both the population of the city as well as the number of people coming into San Francisco each day to work.

Some key items from the report:

  • San Francisco’s population is forecast to grow by nearly 30 percent over the next 25 years.
  • Demand for Muni light-rail trains during peak times is forecast to grow by up to 80 percent by 2040.

Here are a few examples of how SFMTA is coping with the increased demand and some proposals for the future (some of which align with Supe. Scott Wiener’s proposals for more subways in SF):

  • SFMTA has purchased an additional 24 trains that will be in service by 2019 and plans to purchase 40 more trains for service by 2021.
  • constructing a pocket track east of Harrison Street along the Embarcadero to move trains around quicker at Embarcadero Station
  • extending the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf
  • moving the M Line underground on the west side of the city

Read SFMTA’s announcement here and the full report here. As always, let us know what you think!

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Class is Warfare photo show opening, featuring SF as you know it

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Two of our favorite photographers in the city have joined forces tonight in an exhibit called Class is Warfare, featuring more than 100 black and white photos of San Francisco. These candid, moving depictions of our city by Troy Holden and David Root will show at Incline Gallery starting this evening. More than a third of the photos have painted overlays using watercolor, oil paint, and ink by Jarad Barkdoll and UPFUK.

Troy told us that while he and Root were hanging these photographs, a few themes emerged, including our love-it-or-hate-it public transit system. It’s hard to tell a story of living in San Francisco without Muni or BART in the background, and the photographers have captured many of these moments in transit.

Class is Warfare
Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. to March 3 at 10 p.m.
Incline Gallery
766 Valencia St between 18th and 19th (Side Gate)

Photo by Troy Holden

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