Took the bus dowtown -- for the last time

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Not only do the city buses smell like and look like outhouses, now they stuff them until they're so full you can't get off unless you happen to end up near an exit. People flood in from the entrance and middle and rear exists at every stop. The bus driver keeps asking people to let more people in, until ashphyxia sets in. I think I notice a few people in rigor mortis. Half the people miss their stops, because they simply can't get off. A couple almost empty buses with the same number pass on more than one occasion. It takes 30 minutes to go two miles.

Some passengers decide to lean against other passenger, because they are either too lazy to hold on or because they can't reach for a rail. A little kid drooled on my jeans and right shoe. There was no way to escape the toothing menace. I've had it up to here *cutthroat motion* with public transportation in SF!

And why don't people wash anymore? I stinks on those buses!
 
I like the idea of taking the bus/train to work.

But it's either cheaper or about the same cost as taking my crappy Honda and I save 2hrs in round trip commuting time.

And as per your comments about the bus system being overcrowded etc, it should hardly be a mystery why it's hard to get folks out of their cars into transit.
 
I don't work downtown. It's actually been about 5 months that I went downtown by bus. It seems to have gotten worse.

Did I mention the buses don't use A/C here? 90 degree of humid stench isn't exactly a good idea either. It seems they are doing everything to make public transportation as unattractive as possible. BART, the train system is generally better. Going from my place downtown by bus takes about 50 minutes, by car I can go there in 12 minutes -- not that I want to.

The other thing I noticed is that the bus is crowded by amputees. What's up with all the missing fingers and ears all of a sudden? Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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I haven't been downtown for a while. But if the the bus is very packed, the driver doesn't stop but sometimes go past the stop a little. I don't think any of the buses have a/c they do have heating and fans. But on a crowded bus, sometimes they don't even turn on the fan. What gets annoying is people carrying their huge backpack and swing it around and hit you in the head. Muni does have newer buses (NABI, Neoplan, ETI/Skoda). and they gotten rid many of their older ones(Flyer, MAN). Some paianted the new paint scheme. I noticed that i stinks the most in the middle of the articlated buses. What bus you take? 38 Geary? If i go to downtown by bus I take the 38L, limited. It really depends on what time and what day you take the bus. Sometimes its very crowded, sometimes its not. They are going to raise the fare a little in september. Adult 1.25 to 1.50.
 
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The other thing I noticed is that the bus is crowded by amputees. What's up with all the missing fingers and ears all of a sudden?
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You haven't heard of the leprosy outbreak? Is there anything you like about SF? Why don't you come down the peninsula a little ways? It's nice and flat and spacious, so you can ride your bike around....
 
"Some passengers decide to lean against other passenger, because they are either too lazy to hold on or because they can't reach for a rail"
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No, they're just copping a feel.

Welcome to the land of the great unwashed masses.

In fairness the NYC subways are not half bad. The busses have A/C.
 
Yup, it was the 38L. True, the SF bus fleet is made up of mostly new buses that don't stink up the city with diesel fumes like the old ones, but those new buses are definitely getting roachy, at least on the inside. Backpacks have to come off, now. Not sure if it's enforeced, probably not.

Leprosy? Wouldn't surprise me one bit, although tuberculosis is more likely.

What do I like about SF? Access to the coast. I try to stay away from downtown at all cost.

I prefer public transportation in New York and Boston over the one in SF. Seattle is about a filthy as SF.
 
My MIL has a story about crowded trains in Japan and white gooey stuff on the back of her jacket.

No leper body part stories, though.

I have ridden (riden? rode?) the busses in and around Seattle - the bus from Snohomish county into King is pretty nice actually, but the downtown area busses have too many raving loonies for family comfort.
 
Yeah, those buses would be a lot more popular if they had fewer passengers. Eh? Come again?

Around here, buses mostly only run to inner city neighborhoods, the kind where you'd be happy to wear a bullet proof vest. The quality of the bus service is set appropriately i.e. rude drivers, dirty buses, no eye contact.

This keeps the rabble away from the limousine set who glide in and out.
 
I like to think it was just a typo. I clearly meant to say "It stinks" -- or am I in denial? And if so, was typing "dowtown" also a Freudian slip? Now I'm worried...
 
just razzin' ya...

but in Houston, I cannot imagine un-air-conditioned buses....diesel fumes + open windows + the highest per-capita concentration of personal injury lawyers....

"Yassuh, them diesel fumes thru the winders of the 6.17 bus caused me to be permanently stoopid"

We have a new lottery winner!


oh, the humanity...
 
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My MIL has a story about crowded trains in Japan and white gooey stuff on the back of her jacket.

No leper body part stories, though.

I have ridden (riden? rode?) the busses in and around Seattle - the bus from Snohomish county into King is pretty nice actually, but the downtown area busses have too many raving loonies for family comfort.
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That's where my wife learned to hit first and ask questions later. Women constantly get groped on the trains in Japan. They recently started "Women Only" trains.
 
Downtown as in SF? I thought SF was clean. But that is compared to Philly, which is far from clean. Olde City and Society Hill are very nice, but outside of that, it's very filthy. Philthadelphia.
 
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