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Remember last week when we saw those fun pretend displays that Muni put up in Church Station for no discernible reason? We were down in Church Station yesterday, and we were pleased to see that MUNI has put something in at that location! All of that public comment that MUNI didn't bother to collect must have really told them something....
Follow us after the jump to see what MUNI did!
Yep, it's a big screen showing a Windows Internet Explorer "page not available" message. Really, words fail us.
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Same thing happened in Monty station last week, and this week it's got a copy of the same screen that has been at Embarcadero as long as I've been taking Muni. It hasn't improved service at all, but at least I know if I should go back up and take BART when there isn't a outbound car in sight.
Baby steps, Muni.
This was still on the screen at Church Station as of 9:30 this morning.
Still... a waste of money.
Come on, in a few weeks, someone is going to punch that LCD monitor out, and muni is out several thousand dollars.
MUNI had the balls to give me a ticket at Civic Center station for not having "proof of purchase".
I usually just walk down to 16th & Mission and take BART to my job in Oakland, but that morning I was running late and boarded the second car of a packed N-JUDAH, barely fitting on, and jammed up against the door windows.
I rode the two stops down to Civic Center, got off and sure enough, there's some Barney Fife lookin ticket agent stopping people before they can get on the escalator going upstairs.
I showed this guy my book of 15 dollars MUNI tickets and offered to give him one. Instead he opted to write me out a "Nontraffic Notice to Appear" ticket fining me. While this was going on, another agent overheard me chewing out this guy and informed me, "You should buy a monthly fast pass". Son of a bitch! do tell, woman.
So apprently my prepaid book of tickets is not "Proof of Purchase" just because I dont have a transfer. Hell lady, listen up. half the time when I try to give some MUNI street bus driver one of these tickets, he just waves me on to sit down and doesnt collect one when I offer them, which is always.
You goddamn people. No wonder everyone hates you with your shitty service, your rude employees, and your bizarre way of collecting "fares", this time apparently by way of some motherfucking nontraffic ticket for which i have to go to Night Court for.
if I DO have to pay a penalty for your follies and kangaroo court ticket policies, I will choose Community Service, because I will be goddamned if you will get a penny from me to pay a fine.
Assholes.
At Civic Center, they now have the real-time tracking monitors, like the ones at Embarcadero. They're nice, but I wonder why they don't just have the NextMuni display up. Easier to read and understand. Oh, well. It's Muni.
What the fuck? Why is MUNI wasting money on these bullshit displays? Seriously? Are they attempting to completely get rid of NextBus?
NextBus has a far superior solution that includes (inaccurate) prediction times and a far more legible display. They've already got smaller versions of these NB displays at Powell and Church.
See also:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19417968@N00/1448405507/
versus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19417968@N00/1448405499/
Further proof that MUNI is short for not invented here.
ha ha ha ha. ugh, god, will muni ever get it right? I'm personally a fan of the bizarre 1980s-era atari-style next train display on the Embarcadero platform. way to go, muni, you always knock 'em out of the park.
my guess is that they are trying to show http://nextmuni.com, but the PC in the glass case is having a problem connecting to the intartubes.
I love that atari-style next train monitor too!!
Well the useless displays are basically taking the screenshot used on sfmunicentral.com. Too bad they haven't upgraded sfmunicentral.com to include the station names and an explanation of what left and right mean. Too bad that with the update for the useless displays they didn't include an indication of what the different colours mean.
sfmunicentral.com's FAQ:
http://www.sfmunicentral.com/#Frequently%20Asked%20Questions
All this money - and the one thing I really want MUNI to do is replace the change machines at Castro station. Those things are as useless as bat piss. Actually that's an insult to bat piss.
I don't mind the old displays, but I wish they showed the N-Judah all the way to Caltrain. That way when I wait for the N Outbound the display actually shows me something. The way it is now, the Ns just miraculously appear when they get near Embarcadero station.
NY subways are way behind on technology, so they don't have the screen displays.
They do have a cruder but easier to understand system: The trains come every couple of minutes. No problem. No screen needed.
yay, waist more city money on M$ Windows licenses... :-/
amazing how backwards we are. of course - all the smart people are coding for money, not muni.
What code? MUNI has already deployed perfectly workable signs. There's no reason at all to waste any effort on these cryptic POS displays.