Mood: accident prone
Topic: public transportation
Should I be lucky for the public transportation system in San Francisco? Having MUNI, Bart, Sam-Trans, and taxis or limos accessible to me. I should feel grateful for all those organizations. But I’m not! I have taken MUNI previously and now I have to use their services again unfortunately. It’s very hard to get to work driving because of the traffic getting to work. The amount of money I have to spend on gas, not including car repairs. Last is the significant time I will waste just trying to find a park. So for that I am forced to ride MUNI every morning and evening. I have been content with the service in the past, but now it’s really staring to be a hassle just to get to work and back. My first dilemma is the time schedule that is never clear, to me on estimating when my bus will come. I know it is impossible to determine exactly what time the bus driver will arrive at each stop, but theirs no clear time period that it will arrive. Sometimes it comes at 7:15, 7:10, and even as late as 7:40. I’ve tried many times to judge when exactly to go to the bus stop so that I can be at work at a reasonable time, but it is just too impossible. So I get to the bus stop 30 minutes earlier than usual to ensure that if I’ve missed a bus, I can take the next one or an alternate route to ensure that I get to work on-time. My second issue is the overcrowding on the bus. I’ve been on buses that come more frequent and have fewer passengers to pick up. One would think that if a bus is crowded everyday to the point where you can’t even pick up all the passengers at certain stops, that the MUNI would recognize that and add another bus. My last complaint is the bus ethics that accurse usually at the front of the bus. The front of the bus is supposed to be designated for people who are disabled or elderly. But, for the times I’ve got on the bus there are either young adults or children in those seats when the bus is crowded. It is the bus driver’s obligation to let the passengers know who those seats are designated for and be able to enforce it. I hate MUNI because it has the potential to be a good form of transportation for San Franciscans but it is lacking in the categories that I explained.