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True stories told by everyday transit riders. Podcasts, live storytelling, pop-up events, and more! Unaffiliated with any transit agency. Say hi 🚌👋!

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🗣️🚨🚌 CALLING ALL TRANSIT-INSPIRED ARTISTS AND MAKERS 🚃🛍️🌁

The Muni Diaries Art Market is coming back on December 5th for its 5th year! Are you an artist or maker whose work is inspired by the Bay Area and its transit? We encourage you to apply by 10/21 to be considered for inclusion in the market!

This year the market coincides with the first night of Let’s Glow SF, so we expect our biggest crowd yet! We’re expanding our capacity and footprint and have a couple fun activations up our sleeve too.

Tag your favorite transit artists and makers in the comments and let em know you want to see them there!

And for all you shoppers, save the date for all your holiday gifting needs!

🔗link in bio to apply!

#munidiaries #artmarket #transit #sanfrancisco #holidaymarket taken in KALW by @munidiaries

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Last month Muni Diaries turned 18 and we celebrated with stories of “Growing with Muni” 🥹. Our Haiku Champion got a cap and gown and Muni Diaries founder, Tara Ramroop, became Muni Diaries Valedictorian and earned her Doctor of Muni degree (a very prestigious honor)! In her Valedictorian speech she shared,

“This valedictorian speech isn’t a farewell, but rather an invitation to keep going. To remember that you do have a story to tell, yes, you—everyone does. To keep riding the bus and demanding a public transit system worthy of this Victorian city and its cast of characters. It’s your money and it’s the public’s transit! To remember that sharing space with strangers won’t be the worst thing that can happen to you today. In fact, it could be the best.”

Muni Diaries has grown and changed over the years, but at its core Muni Diaries is always you, the everyday transit riders willing to share your stories. You help show us and each other that we are more connected than we know, more alike than we are different, and forever and always live in the best city in the whole damn world.

Here’s to many more years of sharing your stories. All aboard!

To share your transit story send us a DM here, or shoot us an email munidiariessf@gmail.com

📸 @connorcimowsky and @bencochran

#munidiaries #transit #sanfrancisco #storytelling #sf taken in Rickshaw Stop by @munidiaries

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@munidiaries & @known_sf invite you to challenge seasoned Haiku Battler, Mc Allen, to a MUNI HAIKU WAR @minibarsf . Beat him and win a drink!
TUESDAY, 9/29, 6-8 pm HAPPY HOUR
HAIKU WARS @7pm (sign up at the door)
#muni #transitmonth #haiku #munidiaries by @munidiaries

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Once upon a time there was a Muni project! Muni tested a double-decker bus on San Francisco streets from December 2007 to January 2008. Riders could even ride it for free during the pilot.

FUN FACTS:

• It had 83 seats, compared with about 55–57 on Muni’s articulated buses.

• It was only 40 feet long, despite carrying more seated passengers.

• 85% of surveyed riders preferred the view from the double-decker.

• It handled San Francisco’s hills just fine. The bigger issue was overhead clearance.

• It averaged about 3.5 MPG, compared with roughly 2.3 MPG for Muni’s articulated diesel buses at the time.

• This wasn’t Muni’s first double-decker experiment, they had also tested one in 1990.

So why didn’t Muni keep it? Slower boarding, short average passenger trips, clearance issues, and maintenance facilities that weren’t designed for 14-foot-tall buses ultimately made articulated buses a better fit.

Would you ride one if Muni brought them back? #BayAreaForever

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#BayArea #BayAreaMemes #ViralReels #SanFrancisco taken in San Francisco, California by @munidiaries

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What a ride! 🚋❤️

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Muni Heritage Weekend and helped celebrate the vehicles, stories and people that have kept San Francisco moving for generations.

Mayor Daniel Lurie, joined by local elected officials, kicked off the weekend by ringing our motorized cable car bell.

Throughout the weekend, riders hopped aboard vintage buses and streetcars, explored the Historic Bus Promenade, enjoyed activities for all ages, visited the Muni Store pop-up and celebrated more than a century of Muni history.

Director of Transportation Julie Kirschbaum and her son Esa shared their love for Muni, while riders added their own stories to our Muni Memories activation—showing how deeply Muni is woven into the lives of San Franciscans.

A special thank-you to our partners at the San Francisco Railway Museum/Market Street Railway, Muni Diaries, SF City FC and Western Railway Museum for helping us bring the weekend to life.

Thanks for riding through history with us. See you next year! taken in San Francisco, California by @munidiaries

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🚌📝 TRANSIT MONTH MUNI DIARIES HAIKU BATTLE ON 9/29🗣️🍺

In partnership with @known_sf and @minibarsf we’re hosting a Muni Diaries Haiku Battle! Come throw your name in the hat to challenge one of our most winningest Haiku Battlers in Muni Diaries history, Mc Allen. If you can beat Mc at the Haiku Battle your drink is on the house!

Come hang out and enjoy the @known_sf “Ticket to Ride” art show, meet other transit fans, and help decide who wins each head to head battle.

Challenger names will be selected at random, you can pre-prepare a haiku, and remember haikus have a 5-7-5 syllable structure.

Round out transit month with a bang!

#munidiaries #haikubattle #sanfrancisco #transitmonth #publictransit by @munidiaries

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🗣️🚃🚌 WE’RE BACK!!! Muni Diaries expert live commentary returns for Muni Heritage Day 2026! We’ll have facts, figures, guest commentary, and live play-by-play action as the vehicles pull in to Don Chee Way & Steuart St.

You can catch us out on the plaza live or watch from the comfort of your couch on our YouTube Livestream (🔗 in bio)!

It’s like sports….BUT BETTER!!!!🚋🚎🚏

#munidiaries #muniheritageweekend #sanfrancisco #livestream #publictransit taken in Don Chee Way and Steuart station by @munidiaries

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The @known_sf TICKET TO RIDE art opening @minibarsf last night was FANTASTIC! Thank you to all the talented artists and to everyone who came out to play.
Stop by during September to celebrate Bay Area Transit Month with fun art & delicious cocktails. Cheers! #sfartscene #muni #sfmta #muniart #supportlocalsf by @munidiaries

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OPENING TONIGHT! 6pm-late @minibarsf — a @known_sf art show celebrating all things @sfmta . Come toast the transit system that keeps us all connected! #muni #bart #transitart #sfmta by @munidiaries

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OPENING THURSDAY 8/27 @minibarsf !
Take the 24 Divisadero on over to kick off SF Transit Month a week early with @known_sf and @munidiaries !

The show is packed with art celebrating the buses, trains, ferries, operators, riders and unique transit culture that connects the Bay Area.

Stop by to see these talented artists’ wide variety of interpretations and mediums paying homage to our beloved transit system. 🚍See you there!🚍
#muni #bart #fline #cablecar #sfartscene by @munidiaries

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Chris Arvin (@chrisarvinsf) is a familiar face at Muni Diaries Live after years of selling their whimsical Transit Supply (@transitsupply) wares, giving witty presentations on Muni’s history and its famous boat tram, and hosting interactive transit trivia. But how does a kid from a New Hampshire suburb become a San Francisco transit microcelebrity? At our 2025 Wayfinding Show, Chris took the stage to tell us: how learning about the transit service we lost led to fighting for what we still have, how an online following of transit enthusiasts led to real life community, and how that community powered a scrappy but mighty fight for transit funding. For Chris, Muni has truly been the friends they made along the way.

Listen to their story now at the 🔗 in our bio!

📸 by @connorcimowsky & @bencochran

#munidiarieslive #podcast #storytelling #sanfrancisco #transit taken in Rickshaw Stop by @munidiaries

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Who remembers these? What is your bus line? Take me back ❤️❤️. #BayAreaForever

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Shared for informational and cultural commentary purposes under Section 107 (Fair Use). No ownership claimed or copyright infringement intended. Full credit to original creator; post may be retracted at their request. Please contact. We appreciate you. Much respect. taken in San Francisco Bay Area by @munidiaries

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