SFist: Note to MUNI: Tokyo Commuter Alarm Clock

KenSchmier

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:20:28 -0800

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

mattymatt

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:47:53 -0800

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.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:32:07 -0800

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.

Brock Keeling

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:02:18 -0800

Guest #5, NextBus has worked well for me so far. You have a different story with it?

redseca2

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:50:59 -0800

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

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:39:13 -0800

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.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:17:19 -0800

Don't you mean "inexplicably"?

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:03:35 -0800

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.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:06:04 -0800

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!

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:49:31 -0800

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).

suckafree

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:39:14 -0800

LMAO! MUNI can't even spell schedule!