SFist: Calling Into Question Double Decker Bus Aesthetics

Greg

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:35:58 -0800

hey MUNI could use an interactive 2 story toilet and here we go...maybe we'll get lucky and we'll have a gang war between the tops and the bottoms....

Jerry Jarvis

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:26:52 -0800

I don't see it working with the slow system that we have already. I get this image of waiting at stops for people to de-board from the top deck.

PRBurkley

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:48:06 -0800

I think they are cool. And the "peeping-tom" views into apartments from the second deck could make your commute more interesting.

sangfroid826

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:08:00 -0800

On the plus side, locals sound like indignant Stewie Griffins when seeing them for the first time. "What the deuce ... ?"

mtmarcy

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:56:55 -0800

it's only here on for a test, so who cares what it looks like? it won't be run in tunnels, so mariconsoy, your head won't pop off. not due to transit related decapitation anyway.

mtmarcy

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:56:13 -0800

it's only here on for a test, so who cares what it looks like? it won't be run in tunnels, so mariconsoy, your head won't pop off. not due to transit related decapitation anyway.

sangfroid826

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:57:50 -0800

What Agent 510 said. While I bow to no one with respect to my civic vanity, voicing concerns about how Muni looks is like pulling aside a gunshot victim while he's getting a transfusion and asking, "How do you feel about the font on the label of your blood bag?" I don't really give a fuck. Just fix the Municipal Transportation Agency, would you? Thanks.

KatyG

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:10:01 -0800

Well, the open-top tourist ones don't look all that safe; I regularly see tourists attacked by vicious trees along Battery.

Jas

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:38:23 -0800

If they roll up 6,7, or 71 way, I'll be happy with them. As long as they don't stop to wait for imaginary relief drivers at Van Ness.

mariconsoy

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:15:39 -0800

I can't wait for the first dramatic accident. Maybe decapitations as the top of the bus hits the side/top of the stockton tunnel? A bus that has a side-heavy weight mass, and tumbles out of control in flames down a hill?

Brock Keeling

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:08:08 -0800

We're well aware of the tour buses. We were referring to public transit buses. For people who live in San Francisco.

been_here_decades

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:05:46 -0800

Uh, hate to spoil your aesthetic virginity but the city already has had big red double decker buses trolling it's streets for years. They are operated by tour companies. hey, I've got an idea, maybe get off your pooter once a day, and walk around the city...maybe even take a bus tour. perhaps take your own photos, and quit using SF Gate for nearly every snarky reference you post.

Agent510

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:47:40 -0800

Ehhh...when it comes to MUNI, there are FAR more important things at this point than whether the buses are pretty, like whether they're part of a working system, are cost-efficient, aren't full of homeless and gang-bangers, etc, etc, etc. (It pains me to say this, as I do appreciate a well-designed vehicle...but there you go.)

AlamedaAnnie

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:47:30 -0800

I just have a mental image of one of them being toppled in a moment of youthful excitement. (Either from the inside or outside.)