SFist Photo: Noe Nimbies vs Google's Transit System
Supervisor Bevan Dufty holds court today at City Hall as broker among representatives from Google, Noe Valley residents and an alphabet soup of acronymed governmental agencies.
Google's famous reverse commute bus service remains a bee in the bonnet of some Noe Valley denizens, so Supervisor Dufty called a meeting to sort things out. What can be done about these "misery"-creating "mammoth buses"? Find out after the jump.
Some of the residents, particularly those who live on Jersey, feel that the buses are too big and noisy. Is Jersey big enough for 45 foot buses? You make the call, courtesy of the Google Maps Street View!
One resident called for the relatively young Googlers to just walk down 24th to Valencia everyday and catch the Google bus when it stops there. We'll call that choice Healthy Weekdays. We're down on 24th all the time but we never really noticed these buses. Sorry. (We see and hear them of course, but they don't leave a lasting impression.) It's hard for us to witness all the "misery" that some claim this service creates. [You want misery? Just think about Stephen King's movie that uses the same term. Can you imagine what poor Jimmy Caan and Kathy Bates had to go through working with director Rob Reiner for two whole months? Now that's misery!]
Finding a way to reduce number of trips these admittedly large vehicles make down Jersey seems to be the way things are heading. It's not all that simple, what with weight restrictions and the like. But it looks like things will all work out. They're working on it.
[Oh, and we almost forgot to mention, Bevan's new intern, the lovely CRISTA MENDOZA (in the white V-neck in back) turned 21 TODAY! She came all the way up from Stanfoo to help us here in S.F. for the summer, so let's all wish her a very happy birthday!]