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Guide to riding BART & MUNI

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Step 3: Pay

MUNI
If you're getting on MUNI at street level stops, you can either pay the driver at the very front of the train $2.00 (no change available) or get on anywhere on the train with a transfer or your prepaid pass. If you're getting on at one of the underground stations downtown, you can either flash your pass or transfer to the agent in the booth or pay $2.00 in change (no dollar bills) in the turnstile machine. There's a machine that will change your bills into dollar coins in some stations. You can also use the BART fare machines, where available, to get quarters. If you want to get a pass, your options are limited to monthly, weekly and other time limited tickets. You can't just buy a pass that you can keep refilling as you need it.. Also, the free MUNI transfer is good for 90 minutes.

BART
The BART system is easy to use. You can buy tickets using cash or credit ticket at machines at the stations. You put your ticket into the fare gate as you go in the station. Keep it handy because you'll have to put it back in a machine on your way out. The ticket will tell you how much money you have left on it. The machine on the exit side will tell you if you don't have enough money on your ticket; use the machines in the station to replenish your ticket and try again.  Be warned, these tickets are easily demagnetized!  Keep them away from purse magnets and cell phones.  Demagnetized tickets can be replaced only at select stations.

Hybrid
Check the MUNI site for information about getting passes that work on both MUNI and BART, or MUNI and CalTrain, etc. . MUNI is currently testing the TransLink ticket, which works on some other regional transit systems. Visit TransLink for the most up-to-date information.


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Presidio Spire

British artist Andy Goldsworthy has earned international recognition for works that are both in and about nature. He is known for ephemeral art-pieces that decay, melt, or wash away. In 2006, Goldsworthy visited the Presidio and was inspired by the history and character of its forest, planted more than 100 years ago by the Army. The aging cypress and pine trees are now in gradual decline. Each year, the Presidio Trust replants two to three acres, staggering the effort to create an unevenaged forest that can be more easily sustained. Goldsworthy saw an opportunity to create a sculpture with the felled mature trees. In October 2008, he spent fourteen days at the Presidio overseeing the construction of Spire. The sculpture, located along the Bay Area Ridge Trail, is comprised of 35 cypress trees removed as this beloved forest grove is gradually replanted. From its 15-foot diameter, Spire rises over 90 feet into the air, and encourages visitors to experience it from different perspectives, both far and near. Spire tells the story of the forest, celebrates its history and natural rhythms, and welcomes the next generation of trees. It is a poetic reference to the forest's past; as young trees grow up to meet the sculpture, it will eventually disappear into the forest. Hundreds have already made a visit to Spire, or have discovered it by happy coincidence during a hike.

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