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First impressions of the new Muni Metro trains
This evening I’d planned to take Muni Metro home from work as I often do, but there was an unexpected twist: as I got to the platform level, one of the new trains was pulling in. Finally I’d get to ride one! Unfortunately for me it was going in the opposite direction I was headed,…
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Muni Murals outside Laguna Honda
About a year ago, the wall facing Forest Hill station at Laguna Honda hospital got the mural treatment. Today I (finally) found myself over there and decided to check it out. Among other aspects, the mural features two fun depictions of Muni over the years that connect the past with the present. First, here’s a…
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The Cable Car Museum
Some museums require a complicated explanation about how to get there; not so with the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. Both of the Powell Street lines stop outside of the museum, and the California Street line has a stop a few blocks away. Despite living in San Francisco for almost a decade and a half,…
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Nuni transit-themed street art hides secret messages
Some unusual transit-themed street art has appeared around the city recently. Perhaps you’ve seen it? For example, I spotted this odd BART ticket (actually a sticker) a while back: Today I stumbled across this unofficial ad at a Muni stop: A little googling revealed that these are the works of “Nuni,” who apparently goes by…
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52nd annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
Earlier today was Muni’s annual(-ish) Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest. What is a Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, you ask? It’s a two-part contest where “amateurs” (non-Muni employees) compete, and a second part where cable car operators compete. The rules for each part are very different. The amateur competition allows music, dancers, and apparently bribing…
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Narrow streets, remixed
Over at Steve Dombek’s Narrow Streets SF website, he proposes undoing America’s 20th century mistake of building ultra-wide streets here in San Francisco. Instead, the land would be sold off to build new housing, and we’d be left with traditional (or “narrow”) streets like you find in the rest of the world. Naturally, this idea…
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Meta Muni shelter
At some point recently, the ad on a Muni shelter at 16th and Valencia was replaced by a painting. But not just any painting, no — this one depicts what’s behind it. The trash can, the Muni map, the Well’s Fargo, etc. Though I should point out that the guy in the painting was not,…
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New BART trains don’t address boarding issue
The new BART train cars will have lots of improvements over the current ones. But there’s one boarding issue that they didn’t quite tackle. See what’s missing from their design, as pictured above? You may have to take a step back, so to speak, in order to notice. Consider how people board BART trains: commuters…
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Trader Joe’s Muni Metro line
The express checkout at the Stonestown Trader Joe’s features a painting of a Muni Metro train. After noticing the painting, it immediately raised two questions in my mind: While I won’t attempt to answer the first question, I’d like to speculate on the second. The TJ Metro line has to connect all five Trader Joe’s…
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Muni wishes you a Happy Halloween
While an educated observer might note that Halloween was, like, six months ago or something, there hasn’t been a compelling reason to stop celebrating. Muni certainly hasn’t, as seen above. In the immortal words of Ministry, “Everyday is Halloween.” So why not celebrate? Put on that costume and break out your flask, it’s time to…
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