May 19, 2008
Public Transportation Responds to Scheduled Disruptions with Same Disarray We've Come to Expect
There sure were a lot of passengers along the 21 route yesterday -- right next to the race, boy, it sure was busy. Think of how many fares they must've collected! Or would have, if they weren't sending out broken fare boxes along one of the busiest routes of the day. Whoops. Bus 5528 was a free ride for anyone lucky enough to catch it; and out guess is that lots of folks got lucky at Muni's expense.
Why is Muni always complaining about not having money -- and yet when you're ready to give it to them, they act like they don't want it? It's like a hobo eating out of a trash can, sneering, "I don't need your charity."
After the jump: more complaining!
And did you try to catch the 5 at all yesterday? We sincerely hope not. What a mess. Even in the evening, hours after the race was over, it was still wandering the streets like a lunatic. Another jorb well done, Muni!
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I actually needed to catch a bus downtown, and luckily caught a 5 that was full in front, but empty in the back (sort of like a MUNI reverse-mullet). The driver was nice enough to let a bunch of us board in the back, but she could have just asked everyone to move back so that those of us w/out MUNI passes could pay our fare share.
Also, tour buses that normally go up Fell were touring Hayes instead yesterday, causing even more havoc (the streets above Fell, including Hayes and Grove, were packed with double-parkers, taxis, and barfing people).
I couldn't get an N-Judah yesterday to save my life so I ended up driving to my volunteer gig. My boyfriend also gave up waiting for an N yesterday around 5:15 after an hour.
Wah wah wah,
It was most likely a free ride because they ran out of transfer's.
Yay, another funny mullet reference!
The Huffington Post’s editorial processes are based on what Peretti has named the “mullet strategy.” (“Business up front, party in the back” is how his trend-spotting site BuzzFeed glosses it.)
http://tinyurl.com/26bpob
OK, so yeah, I'm just getting to my March 31 New Yorker. What of it?
I saw Bay to Breakers near footstock trying to hitchhike. I saw no Muni buses on and no cabs on Fulton.
This would have been a great day for cabbies to grab a fare.