FOIA: BART/SF MUNI Announcement Audio

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

Any and all available audio recordings of announcements - i.e. RE schedules, health notices, schedule interruptions, promotions, emergencies - and other audio material created to be broadcast to transport patrons on trains, buses, light rail, in stations, and from outdoor shelters. I am specifically requesting the audio recording material and not the transcripts or other summarized format of these recordings.

This is awesome, someone filed Freedom of Information Act requests with BART and SF MUNI to get all of their onboard audio announcements! This is things like stop names, line names, MUNI has complex special service annoucements, I had some fun purusing this.

The MUNI archive is quite large so I’m not going to host it here directly, but these are both direct download links from muckrock.com’s CDN.

• BART Annoucements Audio (9MB zip file, 92 .wav files)
• SF MUNI Annoucements Audio (137MB zip file, 2268 .wav files!)