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We're startled to report that Muni has, in a surprising and awesome display of openness, decided to make public a ton of information regarding their ongoing Choose-Your-Own-Shelter-Adventure. Check out the reams of dataz they've just posted online -- it's all there: facts! Figures! Feedback!
And we do mean feedback. They've just posted every single public comment they received, and boy howdy did they get a lot of comments. (Profanity, you'll be relieved to hear, has been excised, so the delicate sensibilities of Victorian transit enthusiasts will remain unassailed.)
So, what does it all mean? Ah, well ... hmm. Hard to say. The one thing this report seems to lack is an Executive Summary. There's about a million points of data here; but making sense of it, as always seems to be the case with Muni, is up to you. But for once, we're willing to overlook the confusing barrage of information, simply because it's just so nifty of Muni to have make this info available.
So now, readers, it's up to you to sift through some of the comments, find your favorites, and post them here. We're partial to a remark directed at the above design: "Looks like it belongs in Rochester, NY." Oh snap.
A footnote: whenever this topic comes up, someone always grumps that Muni should be spending its money on making the buses run on time instead of buying new shelters. But fear not: Muni doesn't pay for the shelters, advertisers do. So there.
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"It looks like the Pope mobile - I don't need bullet proof protection just something to shelter me."
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They all look good now, and will all look crappy after a gaggle of 17 year old miscreants have their way......dang nabbit
Now that a winning bidder has been chosen, they are beginning negotiations and going back to the various stakeholder committees now that the public has spoken to find out what elements should be added, removed or tweaked from the popular designs.
One of the big questions was the contract allows up to three different designs (commercial and non-commercial shelters count as variations on the same design) throughout the city and whether that should be done and how. The contract won't be finalized until the end of the year and new shelters, whatever the design, will not begin to be installed until next year,
(My pet request in a couple of these meetings was adding a pole with the Muni brand and lines serving that location to the shelter)
Am I the only person who just thinks it looks almost identical to every single bus shelter I've ever seen in my life? The seat could be a bit bigger though.
Frankly I'm glad just to get seats that actually work, unlike those uncomfortable and crappy tilting seats we have everywhere. If you're really worried about people sleeping on it (and let's face it, if you're desperate enough to have to sleep in the bus shelter I've got no problem with that as long as you don't trash it) just put in armrests on it. The M stops over by SF State and Stonestown have this and I've seen it in other bus stops elsewhere. It solves the problem, prevents bench-hogging, and means I can actually sit down again.
Seats with armrests would be good. Big Nextbus signs would be better.
Frankly, I would prefer that the damn things look "almost identical to every single bus shelter I've ever seen in my life." Muni customization is almost always for the worse (think Breda cars).