SFist: Ask a Muni Driver

bornandraised

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:24:26 -0800

as someone who uses the 48 to get to work and school and everything I never had a problem with the switch up until I was in need of getting to the T line. i dont have a big problem with the switchup because it never seemed to affect me (wierd?) and i always caught the 20th and 3rd st bus. do you really dump that many passangers that often?

zippy_monster

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:35:12 -0800

How does the 48 "switch-up" not make sense? MUNI pulls this with lots of other routes. The 14, 29, 38, J, L, and N come to mind. It seems fairly reasonable to me to not run a nearly empty bus all the way to the end of the line. If people are getting confused, the operator is simply not doing his/her job properly. Then again, if the operators and street supervisors did their jobs properly, a whole lot of things would be easier and less confusing. At least with the buses, there's some sense of rhyme and reason (and in theory, if the operator is doing his/her job, you'd know before you got on the bus if it will reach your stop). With the N & L, they'd change the final destination as the train leaves the subway and bump a bunch more than fifteen people out on the street. As for the 71L: The master list is here: http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routelist.php If you click on route description (not one of the 511.org links), you land here: http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.php?rted=71L "Limited stop area between Haight & Masonic and Market & 11th/Van Ness with stops at Divisadero, Fillmore, Laguna and Gough/Franklin." I don't know how accurate it is, as it still lists the 66 as running downtown(!) on occasion.

Bushy Hyde

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:13:30 -0800

As someone who grew up in the Sunset, I never could figure out what the 71L was limited to. Any clues how the route differs from the 71? Been dying to know... for decades.

subframe

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:12:30 -0800

Sure, signs would help, but the 48's weird switch-up just makes no sense. Intersting that the driver's don't like this stuff either though.

zippy_monster

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:18:40 -0800

Questions that came to me last week while riding MUNI: Why do MUNI drivers not stop for ambulances with lights and sirens blaring? Why do MUNI drivers try to run over little old ladies (okay, I almost enjoyed watching an eighty year old, eighty pound woman try to beat up a MUNI train with her cane)? Why do MUNI drivers let the "customers" wait out in the cold for the duration of their cell phone break instead of letting them wait on the bus? Why do MUNI drivers drive with their high beams on at night (you know, high beams, the ones that are designed to blind oncoming pedestrians and traffic)? We're always throwing at least fifteen passengers off the bus at Kansas who had no idea they weren't gonna make it all the way MUNI's kinda like that slutty prude you tried to fuck back in high school. If you drivers would bother to, you know, SET THE SIGNS PROPERLY so that we could look up and see "ooh this one says it's only going to Kansas & 23rd." No. Because you guys are too lazy to set the signs, people look at the sign and assume that the driver is just being lazy again. This is even better on the subway because the destination signs will "magically" correct itself after a few subway stops. How about a little bit more personal responsibility here bub?

sagitta100

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:13:58 -0800

Thanks for making sense of the nonsensical 71. To add to rider confusion, one of the signs for the 71 on Market doesn't correctly list the hours of service (I think it's at 2nd). I did file a complaint about this sign, but never heard back. Last week, I noticed NextMuni wasn't even listing the 71L on their website. According to a Michael at NextMuni "There was a configuration problem. It has now been fixed."

aj

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:56:52 -0800

The 7 runs rush hours only.

Ginger

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:48:26 -0800

hang on...when did the 7 cease to exist?!