Submitted by Muni rider Whole Wheat Toast
Well, first a little intro of what routes I usually take. I would usually take some route on Van Ness to go somewhere but can take various routes back to my place. This morning, I decided to take the 49 to the DOMA rally, which was in the Castro.
The driver of the bus I was on, which was a 49, didn’t stop at Grove Street even though some people wanted out. Even though people told her to stop, one saying, “You’re gonna stop now?” she kept going. When we got to Market, i saw this old guy, I think that’s the exact same guy who started the now-defunct Muni Outrage, talked to her. She replied, “Well how the hell was I supposed to know?” He responded, “Well why didn’t you look?” As he got off, she said, “I didn’t see it, now good bye.”
God dang that was rude. I would have taken her picture, but, the doors were closed and I didn’t have my camera ready.
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Yah. I ride the 47 or the 49 just about every day…and the drivers can be…shall we say, sub-par?
But I learned why.
I was talking to a driver of the 30X Marina Express (which I call the Yuppie Bus) and he’d been a MUNI driver for 15 years or something and everyone knew the 30X is the easiest route so the senior drivers would pick it first (that’s how it works apparently, they don’t just get assigned at random).
NO ONE likes the 49. It’s considered the worst route to have. So who ends up driving it? Brand-new rookie drivers.
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There’s a particular driver on the morning northbound 28 who does this regularly — skips stops entirely (ignoring the yells of “BACK DOOR!”) or he’ll stop very briefly then take off again without giving riders time to squeeze past the high school kids (who for whatever reason park just inside the back door) blocking the exit. I guess it’s a lot easier to keep your schedule if you don’t concern yourself with picking up or dropping off riders.
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The 30X used to run all the way to crocker-amazon before the 9X picked it up.
Sometimes the operators would pick the “board”, which means they are assigned random routes every day.
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Also, another thing. I noticed every morning when I ride the 49 the schedule changes day by day. One time it says a bus is coming in 1 min & 3 min, and the next day, it says it’s coming in 5 min & 9 min! wtf?!
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