San Francisco has about 3,000 bus stops. A good number are built out with benches covered by trademark undulating, red roofs — locally designed and meant to evoke “a seismic shockwave,” the surf or, perhaps, the Muni logo.
Others have been recently outfitted with wooden benches by a guerrilla outfit that the city, for the most part, appears to tolerate; it counts 26 benches in the city so far. Many more are just marked by yellow paint on a street pole.
Mission Local visited several bus stops in the city at different times of the day: During the morning rush hour, the end-of-day commute, and later at night. We saw crowds grow and thin, city workers power wash sidewalks, and some stops that stayed mostly empty all day.
Mission and Geneva streets
Mission and Persia streets
O'Farrell and Larkin streets
O'Farrell and Leavenworth streets
O'Farrell and Taylor streets
Ninth and Judah streets
Ninth and Irving streets
Geary Boulevard and Park Presidio Street
Mission and 24th streets
Mission and 16th streets
Third and Palou streets
Very well done story! As a San Francisco native I think there’s lot to be told about the transit system here.