MUNI

3 ratings since posting on Tuesday, October 30, 2007
in Marina / Cow Hollow
(submitted by Quiet Girl )

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angelicfiend
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not as bad
first, i have to say, i have been here almsot my whole 36 years, and the other places i lived, they had BAD bus service. there are better, but there are also worse.

so, it is not perfect, but besides adding change machines, what would you change? more buses on the routes? like we dont have enough traffice on the streets and what would it cost the riders to add more buses to each line, or maybe they should only add buses to *some* lines? it could work, but i think that there are just more people than ever here, more than ever!!! i remember being a kid, and when sick, or on field trip, there was no one on the streets during work hours....there are just more people, more than ever.

i have always found that leaving a little earlier, or walking a great solution to muni craziness....but hey, i walked from 6th and folsom to Parnassus (UCSF), how many people want to do that???? ; )
- angelicfiend , posted 10/31/07
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offline 495
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um, anyone have change for a $5??
can we have some change machines please???? jesus...I feel like a retard asking everyone for "change for a five" and then go on a quest for quarters....

dumb. get a Metrocard, MUNI - - , posted 10/30/07
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Quiet Girl
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Danger on MUNI?
When did MUNI become so awful? Having lived around the SF Bay on and off for 10 years, I know it's not perfect, but it seems to be getting worse.

I was on the long (double?) 30 bus around 8:15am, and it cuts out at Stockton rather than going the entire route through the Marina (apparently it now does this every day). To take me the rest of the way, I had to cram myself onto the stairwell next to the driver of a bus that was 1/2 the size and stuffed with grade-school kids, and at every stop, the driver crammed more and more people on, until we were stuffed like a tin of sardines from one end of the bus to the other, hanging off the stairwell and in front of the yellow safety line, clearly a violation of MUNI policy.

I think people know the double-bus cuts out early, and they all wait for the small one to take them exactly to where they need to be. Unfortunately, it makes for an overcrowded and possibly dangerous situation. Why not let the smaller bus be the one that cuts out early, or run 2 of the small buses back-to-back?

The current situation breeds anger and contempt among passengers, and for quite some time now, residents of the Bay Area have been told to take public transportation, and we've been made to feel guilty when we choose not to do so. As for myself, I've only had to ride the bus again recently, as my vehicle failed inspection and needs to be repaired, but honestly, though we supposedly have one of the better public transportation systems in the country, I can hardly wait for my car to be fixed so I don't have to deal with the bus system anymore, and with public transportation being as awful as it is, why in the world would anyone with a choice want to ride the bus? With all of the money and resources we have in this part of CA, why are we accepting this as the status quo? We've got elementary school kids hanging off the stairwells of speeding buses, frustrated drivers yelling and piling more and more of us on (I haven't seen anything this reckless since I rode Jeepneys in the Philippines and rode my high school bus -- also dangerously overcrowded, what with 4 of us to a seat -- as a youth) until there's no room to move even if your stop comes up, and the complacency of the current administration, which has, in my opinion, done absolutely nothing to remedy the situation over the years.

Anyone else experiencing this kind of frustration? Is there anything citizens of the Bay area can do to alleviate the problem aside from driving our cars or having to ride a bike some 30 miles every day? - Quiet Girl , posted 10/30/07

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