Ex-New Yorkers in S.F. love to scoff at what San Franciscans consider "crowded" on Muni and BART trains, given how much more civil, spacious, and temperature controlled things are aboard public transit here compared to there. But, of course, the people of Beijing can laugh at us all, because this is what a Beijing subway looks like on a typical morning.

This appears to be Xi'erqi station, and was shot last week, and you can see the ridiculous process of people fighting their way off the train as a horde barely waits to fight their way on, and then the train can hardly get moving because of all the people crammed in and blocking doors, which is only slightly helped by subway attendants (in yellow) who shove the last people onto the train, and yank some others off (for reasons that are unclear).

And the next time you're on Muni at rush hour clutching a pole near a door while the whole middle of the train is barely full, shove in for god's sake.

[Beijing Cream]
[h/t: Chad Fox]

-- Oh dead God: "Hearts in San Francisco" returns. Sweet cuddly baby Jesus, help us all. [Curbed SF]

-- Prop A passed. And? [BeyondChron]

-- Siamese Conjoined twins separated. Pft. Please. Wake us up when they sprout eight limbs. [Chron]

-- More Dan Noyes! [The Snitch]

-- BRT and subways in Beijing, China. (Have you ever seen a cleaner subway in your entire life? Sob.) [N-Judah Chronicles]

-- Crab season hurt? Boo! Tourist season maimed? Meh. [SF Examiner]

--Day four of the Hans Reiser Trial. [Local News Blog]

MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2 will replace the electrical lines from Church Station to West Portal.

How will this affect you, the commuter? Well, for those of you riding the M,L, or K lines, it'll mean having to take MUNI buses at night to get you from the Van Ness station to West Portal or vice versa. So, if you are going from the Embarcadero to wherever the M,L, or K train takes you to, you'll be going from the Embarcadero to the Van Ness Station as you normally would, but then you'll have to hop on a bus that will take you from Van Ness to West Portal and from West Portal you'll hop back on the Metro. Same thing in the opposite direction

Sucks to be you.

This all starts tonight and will affect riders riding from 9 PM til 7 AM. A shuttle bus is expected to run every six minutes.

All of the electric busses -- every single one, on every single electric line -- have NextBus transponders. They've had 'em since December. (The diesel busses are getting hooked up soon, too.) They've been transmitting data for months now. And NextBus wants to put that data on the NextBus.com website, thereby freeing us from the tyrrany of guesswork that is Muni ridership. So, what's stopping them?

Muni is.