@kf I’m mostly surprised about the 38 because it would be a tiny bus line back home
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@kf I’m mostly surprised about the 38 because it would be a tiny bus line back home
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@skinnylatte when I first moved from rural texas to SF, the only bus I ever took was the 8 from fisherman's wharf through chinatown, so I could get to the upper tenderloin everyday
as someone who had never been on a bus before, that felt like a steep learning curve at the time
also for 3 months I didn't realize muni ran metro cars underground
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@kf I could not find the damned bus stops when I first got here
I can tolerate the 38 and the 49 because they’re most like buses where I’m from (don’t need to check when it’s coming, they’re always coming)
But I found the overall bus experience here quite perplexing (even as someone who takes many buses)
I didn’t even know about the curb colors (the red meaning there’s a bus stop, the hidden yellow strip with the stenciled bus no) until much later
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@skinnylatte the very first day I was in SF, an internet friend took me on a trip to the mission that involved buying my first clipper card, getting on the streetcar down to market, taking BART to 16th street, and then taking the bus back
that is why I didn't realize muni metro was a thing for months and instead took bart and the streetcar places
eventually someone asked me why I was getting on bart when I was just going to embarcadero and I was like “?????”
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@kf yeah, the thing about saying agency names instead of the type of service is also very alienating unless you know about them. I totally also didn’t know about the muni trains (in fact I only knew them as ‘trams’ so I was like wtf is a muni)
I was definitely lost as a tourist with transit, in ways I rarely am elsewhere. So I don’t even think it’s a not used to transit thing! It’s not friendly