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I love living in the gayest city in America! 🌈

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Cable car decorated for Lunar New Year

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Castro Station has some new signs!

They look nothing like the old Muni (San Francisco Municipal Railway) signs, and that's the point. The yellow and blue signs are part of a project to create a coordinated system of maps, signs, and standards across the 27 transit agencies of the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Instead of trying to merge agencies or complicate things further with an umbrella brand, the focus is on the service. The monolithic new sign indicates that Castro is a train (subway) station where you can catch the KLM lines. We've already got a universal fare system in Clipper, which agency runs the KLM lines isn't that important as long as they get you where you want.

More info: MTC Regional Mapping & Wayfinding Project

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Lion mask on display in Chinatown

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@churchof8wheels Roller Skating in Civic Center for MLK day

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Diagrams from Lundberg Design's page about its San Francisco bus shelter for SFMTA/Muni, 2009-2013.

Image captions: "Shelter kit of parts"; "Kit of parts shelter adapts over 50 iterations of length, width and slope".

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Sunny day Coit Tower

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The RESIST on this house went up after 2016, and it gives me hope every time I see it

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Painted utility box at 18th and Dolores

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A tie-died Muni train arriving in Duboce Park during the Grateful Dead’s big 60th anniversary party in Golden Gate Park.

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https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/san-francisco-stomach-flipping-hairpin-turn-20152424.php

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The 33-Ashbury/18th Muni line makes a sharp turn on Upper Market.

“Hairpin” fails to capture the sheer strangeness of the transit system’s sharpest turn. It takes place near Twin Peaks, at the intersection of Market and Clayton streets, and is disruptive enough to warrant its own dedicated traffic signal. The 33’s signature turn swerves across up to six lanes of traffic and, on rare occasions, leaves the 40-foot-long bus stranded in the middle of an intersection, poles detached.