Muni’s 100th Birthday. We got free rides today. Hooray!
Dore said they should scroll “Happy Birthday Muni” instead of “Go Giants” or “Go Forty-Niners” on the buses.
There should be birthday cakes and balloons and flowers and champagne.
There should be bands playing at major bus stops.
I guess we’d have to be satisfied with the exhibits on the transit shelters along Market Street.
None of the bus drivers had uttered a word about the special occasion. None of them looked particularly jubilated. Most of the buses had a piece of scrap paper over the fee machine, as if it was broken and we were lucky to get a free ride.
Management!
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TREASURES FROM THE MUNI ARCHIVE at THE SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY MUSEUM, streetcar.org; Adithya Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen.
