SFist‘s Comment of the Day today is a peach:
The other week my husband left on a flight to San Diego at the same time I boarded Muni at Duboce Park to go downtown to work. He arrived in San Diego before I arrived at Montgomery Station.
Read on for further Muni woes.
[Photo by David Lytle]
A few weeks ago I was in the mission and walked from valencia to potrero to catch the 9 to go home, and the bus stop at 24th said a bus will be there in 11 min. I decided “Oh, I’ll keep walking to the bus catches up to me” I walked from there to my house near San Bruno& Felton….without seeing a 9 in the horizon. I’ve also caught up to then 9 walking somewhat casually and got on the bus on San Bruno ave…haha I do walk faster than average, but I aint the goddamned flash! One problem is that bus stops are too frequent, I’d rather walk a block or two than deal with a stop on every block going down potrero haha
The other day we missed the 19 at Mission & 8th by a minute (it was six minutes early). The next 19 was not to arrive for 45 minutes. So, carrying a 37-pound toddler on my shoulders I walked the two miles home — with a stop for groceries at the Moldy Foods en route — without ever seeing the 19.
The Muni is going to drive me to drive. That’s just sad.
Absolutely amazing that now MUNI drivers are suing
to invalidate parts of Measure B ( the fix MUNI measure) that
65% of San Franciscan’s voted for. The audacity. Service level
And customer service is non existent to absolutely horrendous.
Get a bike. Problem solved.
That doesn’t help much when you commute with a three-year-old to the top of Potrero Hill.
Indeed. Two kids and groceries does not work on a bike.
I waited 45 minutes for a 67 the other morning to get to 24th St. Bart. It was so full when it finally arrived, I couldn’t stand it anymore and hopped off at Folsom and 24th and walked to Bart. The bus and I got there at the same time, but I got fresh air and no one was touching my ass.
I could probably walk downtown from Bernal Heights faster than taking muni.
Muni was better when Mr. Burns was in charge. The day Mr. Ford took over, service worsened noticeably. The snitch system for calling-in graffiti-in-progress on a bus didn’t work, but Muni never tested it. For several months Muni played recorded messages on buses to phone a certain # and text the bus # to report a graffiti artist, but the system didn’t work: no one received the text messages. TMI = Typical.Muni.Incompetence
That photo is PERFECT.
Last year I outwalked an inbound 71 Haight bus from Laguna/Haight stop to about Market at 10th St. when it finally outdistanced me.
Many times I have walked down Van Ness from about
Clay to Market St. with no bus passing me (there are 2 lines on V.N.)
bart has a shit ton of bacteria!