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    What is MUNI Haiku?

    MUNI is the San Francisco Municipal Railway. MUNI Haiku celebrates and shakes a fist at all that is good, bad and curious about SF public transit.

    The world-famous and locally-reviled fleet is made up of gas buses, electric buses, connector buses, historic streetcars, lightrail trains and the iconic cable cars. It's complemented in some parts of town by BART, the subway that connects SF to its outskirts.The creator of this site absolutely worships the Italian orange F Markets.

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    7.28.10

    What’s that odd rumbling?
    A vintage streetcar rounds Church.
    I look up. Day. Made.
    -Matt Foley (Train #162 [1914 SF])

    J- Church [+]
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    sixty, three children
    I caught a glimpse of his life
    after injury
    - EP

    48 Quintara/24th Street [+]
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    7.12.10

    Harmonic heaven.
    A man, his voice and guitar
    Serenades us all.
    -Matt Foley (Train #1426)

    J- Church [+]
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    7.6.10

    bus to the de Young?
    civil servant grunts “out front”
    but which side of street?

    44 O'Shaughnessy [+]
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    Driver on cell phone
    stink-eyes me upon boarding
    Sure…give her a raise

    23 Monterey [+]
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    7.4.10

    Ran to catch the ten
    Got in, sat down, until told
    I was on thirty.
    –EP

    10 Townsend [+]
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    6.28.10

    Waiting, bus delayed
    Blasting sun bakes my poor skin
    Happy Pride, S.F.
    –EP

    27 Bryant [+]
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    Mother and Daughter
    Sitting side by side, same look
    Exact same hairdo
    –EP

    48 Quintara/24th Street [+]
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    6.25.10

    At the stop before
    this one you wait through two lights
    made me late to work

    8X Bayshore Express [+]
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    At the stop before
    this one you wait through two lights
    made me late to work

    8X Bayshore Express [+]
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    6.6.10

    52 Excelsior
    To Persia, and to Prague
    My MUNI pass a passport.
    -MEFA

    52 Excelsior [+]
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    Shivering in the fog
    while the driver eats her chips.
    Can we wait on the bus?
    -MEFA

    52 Excelsior [+]
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    Ba-door! shouts the man
    Leaving off the consonants.
    Chinese learning English.
    -MEFA

    29 Sunset [+]
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    5.21.10

    Train T-bones taxi
    Passengers don’t feel a thing
    Taxi driver’s fault
    -klavin

    F - Market & Wharves [+]
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    5.19.10

    June gloom Pac Heights–hills!
    red maple leaf waves afar.
    green tea taste on tongue
    -sunshinelion

    1 California [+]
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    5.13.10

    Muni announcement:
    3 languages, 2 days late
    no one yields their seat.

    General [+]
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    5.9.10

    it gets no respect
    other routes snicker and point
    no love for 8X
    -Mike

    8X Bayshore Express [+]
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    “now arriving” blares,
    but J train is not moving?
    just confused and late.
    -S.M. Williams

    J- Church [+]
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    her bag hits my chin,
    I curse to myself.
    it hits me again.
    -S.M. Williams

    J- Church [+]
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    driver screams at man,
    tourist just wants to stop here,
    should have gone to Rome.
    -S.M. Williams

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