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Maybe it's because we're fascinated by its garish, antique iMac-y design more than what it claims to do -- explicably, we still have faith in visiting NextBus -- but something like this would be ideal for bedrooms and offices all across SF. The alarm clock indicates all of Tokyo’s major train arrival/departure times all while getting your sleepy ass out of bed. What won’t the Japanese think of next?
Reader and contributor Ted, who sent this to us, argues that if MUNI was tied to it, it would "be spinning backward and forward and grinding and whining non-stop, until it died." Which? True.
But still…the pretty lime green is just darling in an ugly sort of way.
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LMAO!
MUNI can't even spell schedule!
Oh, but it does much more than that; I've seen it in the wild. It also plays the songs of each (some?) of the stations (all the Yamanote stations have their own little jingle).
Don Fisher's (Gap Inc. dude) and Webcor's initiative to add more parking spaces in the City would attract more cars downtown - and that would make MUNI even less able to stay on schedule. Vote no on the Parking Measure this November - and tell friends to vote no too!
Is it just me, or does anyone else's blood pressure rise just looking at that thing? If I owned it, I'd probably chuck it through a not-necessarily-open window within a month tops.
Don't you mean "inexplicably"?
Actually, the MUNI clock wouldn't move at all for forty-five minutes, then it would tick like mad catching up as all the arrivals and departures are bunched up together, followed by some sparks and a puff of smoke and silence until you crack open the back and reattach the two dislodged power wires that popped out.
When I visited Japan in the '80's, they already had the recorded announcements calling out the stops on the surface street buses.
At the time, I assumed such advanced technology was 100 years away for SF MUNI. I was wrong, it only took 20 years.
Guest #5, NextBus has worked well for me so far. You have a different story with it?
I hate the nextbus phone service.
"what's that?"
"I still didn't get that."
"I still didn't get that"
You said Marin County Bus Lines.
NO YOU MORON I SAID MUNI.
Worst VRU anywhere.
That's not the NextBus phone service -- that's 511. It does suck quite a lot indeed, probably because it's chiefly meant for cars, rather than transit.
NextBus will deliver a much better solution than the train clock used by Tokyo. I hope to have it some time this year.
Ken Schmier