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We put this in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, but since so many of you reacted with pure, unadulterated rage, we feel it necessary to give it its very own post. What we're talking about is this: resurrecting the CultureBus 74x. See, a new site popped up this weekend, RestoreThe74, which bemoans the loss of the little, yellow, different 74x that got you from one richly-textured SF landmark to the next, in record time with record leg room.
RestoreThe74 urges for the return of the 74x. Its mission statement is simple:
Remember a simpler time? When you could ride a bus from cultural landmark to cultural landmark, marveling as the city unfurled beneath your wheels? Every day for a couple of hours, the Culture Bus -- the 74x -- set off every sixty minutes to tell the story of San Francisco, all for the price of a very bad haircut. And there was always plenty of room to stretch out. It’s time to bring it back.
And how.
Sadly, there's already talk of anti-74x hate sites on the horizon, manned by angry people who want to turn SF into a culture-free zone. Can AbhorThe74 be far behind? Stay tuned, or read more about it over at SFAppeal.
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Hi! I'm your typical commentor on SFGate or elsewhere in the internet. I react with pure rage to everything I see, without really reading it through. That way, I can be high and mighty, and scream like crazy about the Culture Bus site, without realizing HEY DUMBASASES IT'S A FUCKING JOKE ARE YOU SERIOUSLY THAT FUCKING STUPID OHMYGOD GO BACK TO SFGATE AND SCREAM ABOUT BIRTH CERTIFICATES HOLY SHIT!
Heh, i love a good joke... and this one was pretty good!
Ha ha, I especially love this photo:
http://www.restorethe74.org/Fond%20Memories_files/_MG_1345.jpg
no one's ever been that happy to ride transit. EVER!!
this comes from a lifelong transit rider who's never owned a car and who's ridden since the age of 5.
I'm pretty sure this website is for serious.
seriously, though...that site does address the reasons why the 74 failed: the bus left just once per hour and it was overpriced. If that bus were even just twice an hour and the cost had been just $5 (and had been publicized), it would have been a success
It ran every 20 minutes to begin with. Even at $7 and every 20 minutes it still cost about a million bucks... and nobody rode it.
I think we should shun all things little, yellow, and different.
You've gotta be high to ask to restore the 74X.
Let the private tour buses do their job of shuttling people to major destinations. Don't let my taxpayer money subsidize CultureBus.
relax buddy.
The best way to get tourists to appreciate San Francisco is NOT with an overpriced tour bus.
The best way to get tourists to appreciate San Francisco IS by bulldozing pier 39.
The first thing I thought when I saw that website is that it's a "fake" fansite. Not that locals who love the culture bus (are there any?) _must_ have poor web design skills, but it looks like professional PR to my eyes.
HAHAHAHAHAHA - that site is definitely for humor. Think onion. Believe it or not, there are people with web design skills that can throw this up online inside an hour, especially if it will get people to rage on sfist. I also think Brock knows exactly who put it up.
Also, I live on the route (Fell St) and there has never actually been this many people taking this bus for a ride... it is staged!
Wow, I didn't think my comments counted as rage, but fair enough. Deplore the Whore known as the 74!
I dare say that calling Baker Beach 'Beaver Beach' qualifies as slightly humorous.
I'm amused that of all the links listed in "Local Culture," the 74 only grazed by one, maybe two of those areas, and it sure as hell didn't stop there (correct me if I'm wrong).
... and lo, the mighty blogger cabal, drunk with power, wondered just how far they could push it ...