We Can't Wait for That Study to be Done so we can FINALLY Find Out Why Nobody Rides Muni

Hey how was your weekend? You didn't have to work, did you? Muni certainly didn't: on Saturday, NextMuni showed only one bus running the entire 33 route all by itself. Expected wait time: ranging from an hour to an hour and a half. We were hoping to swing by Cliff's in the Castro (they've got these awesome elephant-shaped teapots), but obviously you can't go shopping in neighborhoods you can't get to. Sorry, MUMC!

So, is this a driver shortage or a NextMuni glitch? It's hard to know for sure. It's also hard to care -- after all, from a rider's perspective, does it really matter? When you log on to NextMuni.com and see something like this, all you care about is adjusting your travel plans so that they don't involve the bus.

Fortunately, things were back to normal the next day -- there were four buses on the route, with two of them bunched-up. Wait times ranged from two minutes to an hour. Another jorb well done, Muni!