Muni Gone WILD | Every ride is a trip

That shit’s fucked up, son…

Though cable cars are usually preferred by tourists, they are the jewels of MUNI. This nice lady to your left is Francesca Cresci, of 36-24-36 proportions, was crowned Miss Cable Car of 1972. What a stunna! The crowning of […]

The dinner and romance of Valentine’s Day screeched to a halt when I, about a month ago, was run over by a San Francisco taxicab. 16th and Valencia is normally home to burritos, ice cream carts, and sunny weather; this dreadful morning, though, the intersection witnessed a devastating upset in civilization’s favorite internal […]

Wednesday morning, a protest and march kicked off the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Never to miss an opportunity to assert their revulsion with the war, the SFPD made haste to participate.
First, a convey of police Suburbans, marked and unmarked cars made a symbolic progression from Market Street up Bush Street, in the […]

To keep track of the size of our team, MGW has created a Bay to Breakers signup on Facebook. Please RSVP on the page.
To the best of our knowledge, Facebook doesn’t allow links to event pages. So you have to search for it. Search in the SF network for Muni Gone WILD
If […]

Seth likes to go fishing, generally for anything that bites his bait.  He finds they tend to bite on the N Owl, around 3:30 am.  You can find him at the back of the train.

The Transit Effectiveness Project, Muni’s $2 million study to overhaul the entire system, has finally produced what MGW has been waiting for: WILD changes to the Muni map!
MGW has evaluated the proposed changes on its scale of WILDness:

Discontinuing the 26? About fucking time! Not so wild…
Running the 33 on 24th Street? […]

Mary Brown, who recently finished her Geography Master’s thesis from Berkeley, has put together a website presenting her thesis. Her paper deals with the changes that have occurred in the Mission District over the decades to accommodate the automobile, specifically the installation of garages and driveways (”curb cuts”).Her research brings up some interesting points. […]

The fine folks at the SF Department of Parking & Traffic put out a Transportation Fact Sheet each year. Among the statistics in the 16-page document:

There are 519,545 driver’s licenses issues in the city; there are 49,772 disabled placards (that does not count temporary placards)
The City absorbs a 35,400 net increase in vehicles each day […]

David was not a huge Muni patron until a taxi crashed into his Vespa and his right leg.  He now holds as much admiration as he does for the fine folks at the SF General emergency room.