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Why don't they take Muni?
by mempko 13y ago
Why don't they take Muni?
- mc32 13y agoMUNI routes are not optimized for all people and some people work in a different municipality, etc. Academy of Art College, UCSF, etc. all have private buses and shuttles to address that shortcoming. I can almost hear the outcry that 'techies' are overcrowding our buses!
- yapcguy 13y agoHave you seen the size of the UCSF shuttle buses? They are tiny compared to the tourist coach sized google buses. Also they don't just take UCSF staff and students, they also take patients. Googlers can take the Caltrain to Mountainview and hop on the free shuttle buses which drop them off at their campus. Why don't they do that? Or since Google has an office in San Francisco here's a better idea - let people who live in San Francisco work from that office, and people who live outside work at Mountainview.
- thaumasiotes 13y ago> Googlers can take the Caltrain to Mountainview and hop on the free shuttle buses which drop them off at their campus. Why don't they do that? Have you ever tried to use Caltrain? It will make you want to gouge your own eyes out.
- stefan_kendall 13y agoI took the train from SF to mountain view. 50 minutes of train time with large sections of no 3G/LTE.
- yapcguy 13y agoSo what? That doesn't give corporations the right to break traffic laws in SF, not just once or twice, but repeatedly for years. The city has failed to do it's job of enforcement, but the violator is still guilty.
- mc32 13y agoDo you think all the laws which fail to get enforced regularly should get enforced regularly, or just the laws you think should be enforced regularly?
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- ahh 13y agoBecause Muni is incredibly slow--I can walk from Fort Mason to Market Street faster than I can take a bus, and that's with a foot injury that has me limping and unable to stand by the end of the walk--and doesn't go anywhere useful. Caltrain is slow and expensive, lets off a several mile hop from Google, and requires an hour or more on the aforementioned awful Muni bus to get to the starting part. If the public transit was functional, like in DC or NYC or Boston, we'd use it.