Photo by Jeffrey Doker
Bernalwood alerts us to a new shirt that celebrates our public transportation system: “I BART SF”!
They are also available as mugs, hoodies, or children’s shirts.
Pretty cool stuff.
Cross posted from Muni Diaries
Written by: Eugenia
Photo by nadja robot
Holy moly!
My favorite part is on the Dublin/Pleasanton to SF train, where the guy dressing in the back of the train went unnoticed, until …
Fascinating stuff.
Cross posted from Muni Diaries
Written by: Eugenia
Jenny is a fan of the Giants and public transportation.
BART is boring. I used to live in San Francisco and loved riding Muni. There’s just general coolness going on around you at all times. Plus, you’re above ground so you get to take in the sites.
BART is another story. People are expressionless and generally in a sour mood. And you’re below ground so you see squat for scenery.
But the World Series changed that normal dourness on BART on Thursday night. On my ride to the city, the BART conductor announced the score mid-game. Post-game, on my ride home to the East Bay, people were talking to one another for once. There were cheers and smiles all around. People even gave up their seats for once.
That night was almost as good as Obama winning 2008 elections. Almost.
Go, Giants!
Written by: jeff
Anyone expecting Eric Fischer to just go softly into that soft night is fooling themselves. Today, he gives us a May 1958 BART logo. Almost as cool as this.
Written by: jeff
Photo by AliThanawalla
Sure looks like it to my untrained eye. Either way, nice photo.
Written by: jeff
Josh Ellingson saw our post Friday about his new art at various BART stations, and tipped us off to more. Here’s a Flickr set that includes the images again, as well as process drawings he used to create them, and some of the signs iterated in BART stations.
Thanks, Josh!
Written by: jeff
Via Beth W. via Laughing Squid, we were informed of this triptastically awesome Ellingson art that’s popping up at area BART stations. Laughing Squid has more.
Written by: jeff
BART rider Nicole was understandably perplexed Monday morning at the 24th Mission BART station when she encountered the scene depicted above.
Written by: Nicole
Via Akit, we found this amazing BART video, purportedly from 1982.
The transit system wasn’t exactly new at that point, but this ad sure presents it as if it were.
Trippy, to say the least.
Written by: jeff
Photo by annnna_
Via SF Weekly’s The Snitch, BART Diaries has learned of at least one iPhone owner who refused becoming another theft-victim:
“He hit me as hard as he could four times, and I just stood there, like dazed. I was like, you just got four free shots and you didn’t take me down. And then in a split second I decided I’m going to kill him. He unleashed the beast. I am basically 98-percent muscle, I’m a professional athlete, and all my muscle was on him. I pounced on him like a tiger.”
Read the whole story here.
Written by: jeff
