MUNI – 10 Townsend

Though the ride itself is a really unpleasant one, I greatly appreciate the driver of today’s muni 10 Bus, APRIL 5, 2016, currently 8:02 AM. He is so helpful and informative, I remember asking for directions from him the other day and got clear instructions. Today riding the muni 10, it’s isn’t the automated machine saying the stops, it’s the bus driver himself.

Slow as hell and always misrepresented in the nextbus system. Feel like watching a bus fly by because you didn’t know it was coming? Wanna be late to work today? Take muni!

+3 Stars for Extended Every Service after 7PM (Runs every 30 Minutes after 7PM until Midnight)
–2 Service Can be more reliable

This bus is notoriously slow, I remember the first time I tried to ride it. The problem was that the bus rarely comes. I must declare who would get such bad service for so less. This is one of the reasons why I do not take this route. It is even slower than the SBS buses that are shuttles in Singapore. Even more slower than some buses in Houston during the regular business days. When you managed to take this bus the drivers really are not that great because the last time I took this bus my driver was driving like its a race car. I could not just imagine the safety record on this route. Bests idea is to avoid this route

The 10 Townsend provides service that isn’t easily accessible by other public transit options, because it has an east-​west leg that light rail does’t serve. In the evening peak hours, traffic understandibly creates delays.
Early morning service is perplexing. City traffic is light until after 7:30 am — 8:00 am. Once or twice a month the service seems to skip a run, resulting in as much as an hour wait.
Having recently moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco, I looked forward to better commute options. My LA sprawl commute was one hour to drive 14 miles in stop and go traffic, while my SF city commute averages 40 minutes on public transit to travel 3 miles. My 10-​Townsend commute is entirely within the city on a direct route.
Public transit has so many societal benefits that the city should put effort into providing consistent service. The bus service is not practical unless you have a flexible work start time.
8÷20÷2014 update:
Yesterday I overheard several people on the bus discussing how the 8÷18÷2014 delay affected their jobs. One gentleman started a new job and was worried about his first day impression. This morning the NextBus app showed the 10-​Townsend was running a hour late. In actuality the bus was about 15 minutes late and the next bus was just a few stops behind. As previously noted, traffic was light along the route.

Pros:
Theoretically runs from Potrero Hill and points south to Mission Bay, SoMa, and downtown. Offers a way to navigate Potrero Hill without serious biking.
Cons:
Remember taking the bus in the suburbs? Good, then you are prepared for the #10’s sparse and unpredictable service. Claims to run every 15 – 20 minutes, yet around half the time, I’ve looked at NextMuni only to find that the next bus is more than 30 minutes away, even during commuting hours. Shuts down entirely starting between 7 and 8 pm on weekdays.
In summary: an alluring mirage.

Woop woop, Look out for the 10 ’cause it’s rolling through your hood. This is just another one of the buses that runs through SOMA, FinDis, Chi’ Town, and the Marina. Which makes this bus give you a wide variety of folks on it. It generally always is standing room only during rush hours but will always have room (unlike the 30x see my other review…) The 10 is my second bus to work and my first on the way home and is pretty reliable. I am only leaving 3 stars because it gets the job done and has room to be both better or worse.

Generally an ok bus when its not crowded and shows up. Except I’m getting really pissed off with the rude driver that decides when the bus should leave 24^th Potrero. Nextbus will say 6 mins and he takes off when I’m a block away. Then there’s the times where it says 6 mins and he pulls up, switches off the engine and sits there for 20 mins. He doesn’t even speak, just grunts. I’m pretty easy going but this guy makes my blood boil.

I took this bus the other day from Polk and Pacific to the Financial District and it took me there at the time I expected. It goes down Pacific and turns down Broadway, and depending on time of day can get pretty interesting. Seeing the local strip clubs while riding the bus, Can Muni get any more entertaining?

It is good to have the 10 Townsend operating on Pacific, Powell and Broadway in Chinatown with the 12 Folsom/​Pacific.
This is definitely one of the best routes to take when looking to dodge crowding on the busy 8X. Buses on this route aren’t always frequent but getting a seat on this route seems very easy. This part is always a good thing! It really would be nice to continue seeing this route being more frequent.
It does make stops at:
— 4^th and King Caltrain Station
— San Francisco General Hospital

I like that I can always get a seat because my commuting hours are before the majority of others going from my area to the financial or Soma.
I don’t like that this line seems to run only ever 30 ish minutes. Sometimes it’s more frequent. And on bad days it’s closer to every 45 minutes.
I like that it’s generally pretty clean.
I don’t like that, for some reason, the bus drivers of this line do not know how to operate a brake properly. I know I shouldn’t criticize too harshly, I sure as hell don’t want to drive a bus full of people who are highly unappreciative of what you do. But somehow every time I ride in one of the side seats (where you are moving sideways) on this line, the inept driver’s braking habits cause me to slowly slide from side to side in my seat, sometimes nearly even sliding right into the lap of the person sitting next to me. personally i dont find it ridiculous that i don’t have the desire at 7am (or any hour of the day, really) to explain to the old man next to me that no, the reason for my ass on your leg is due to the physics principals of inertia and momentum and NOT because of any interest in actually sitting on your lap.
this line gets me from point A to point B. nothing more, nothing less (knock on wood).

The 10-​Townsend doesn’t run often enough or late enough into the night, but it’s useful nevertheless. It’s a crazy bus line whose route doesn’t seem to make any sense. If I had to guess, I would say it’s a combination of two or more discontinued lines. It’s pretty random that it gets to San Francisco General Hospital in a circuitous way. I worked at SFGH for four years, took the bus to and from work every day, and I didn’t know the 10 was so close.
I don’t understand why it turns so many times, but I’m glad it does. It uses a roundabout. How many other city bus lines do you know of, anywhere, that use a roundabout? And who knew that San Francisco still had a roundabout? (RIP, by the way, to the useless Page Street roundabouts.) It affords access to Caltrain, but not many people use it. It goes all the way to Pac Heights. Man, this line is crazy.
The drivers on the 10 are always really nice. It’s probably because they have so few passengers to deal with. And the ones they have are probably regulars. And no one really spends much time on here.
When I was unemployed, I rode this line almost its entire length because I was fascinated by it. I literally didn’t know where I would end up, so I was shocked that I was able to transfer to the 24 to get me home much quicker than I thought possible. Thanks, 10-​Townsend!

Rode in the middle of the day just heading up on Pacific Avenue from Kearny to Polk. Trying to dash into the Walgreens there on the corner since they now carry Essie nail polish. Clean, on time, efficient.
Although I work at Pacific and Kearny right in front of the bus stop. And the shit I see on a daily basis you would not believe.
But I was pleasantly surprised by the 10 Muni on this spontaneous polish adventure.

If a public transportation line’s main goal is to get you where it states it will take you, then this line is an absolute failure.
I took it for one week only before I gave up. Live in Potrero Hill and work in the FiDi, this seemed like the perfect route. In the mornings it was fine, consistent and timely. The way home however… SWEET JESUS. For some unknown reason, the #10 starts in the FiDi, gets to the Caltrain, and TURNS AROUND TO HEAD BACK. It totally abandons the rest of its route! Twice in one week I sat at a bust stop for over an hour, waiting for a bus to take me home. Even
doesn’t know which buses are doing the route and which are cutting it in half, so it’s a total crap shoot. You just have to wait there. F that.
I switched to the Muni KT + Bus 48. Life is too short for this.

I love this route. Never crowded, no matter what time of day I’m on it, nice bus drivers, and usually clean. I wish that all rides could be so…

Newsie hats, sweater vests, freshly creased slacks, trendy knee-​high boots, sparkly engagement rings, fauxhawks, semi-​professional featherleathers, iphones, canvases — these are the things I see on my daily commute to work. The 10 is definitely a scenester bus — a daily fashion show, one of the best people watching venues in SF.
The only drawback to the 10 is its sporadic and light schedule and the fact that sometimes it just disappears into thin air. I recommend
for any muni ride, but especially so with this bus as it rarely adheres to its schedule. I’m dreading what will become of it after MORE muni price hikes and scaling back from our routes!

I loathe this bus. New schedule is now having it stop every 20 minutes! Completely unacceptable as it stops at CalTrain. This was just the push I needed to start walking to the office in the morning (I already walk to the train at night). By the end of the day, I’m at nearly 10,000 steps.
Hey, wait a minute. Muni helped me walk an additional 5,600 steps.
I LOVE MUNI! Thanks!

You’re for the most part always on time.
You always take me where I need to go.
You take me from potrero hill to my apartment in soma and to my job down by fishermans warf.
You for the most part are one of the cleaner lines. I like that.
Oh and in the morning I always love the hot eye candy going to work @ FiDi.
wins!

Taking the 10 Townsend is as good as taking a taxi in my opinion– just a helluva lot slower. It picked me up right in front of Caltrain, and dropped me off directly in front of my summer job in the FiDi, and vice versa for the evening commute. No transferring and no walking X number of blocks. No muss, no fuss. Best part of all? It’s not the «Dirty 30.» I refuse to hoof it from Sutter & Kearny any longer! Besides, one can only squeeze themselves off a bus so many times before before it’s no longer cool. Oh right, it stopped being cool the first time.
Next time I need to get to the Financial District from Caltrain, I’ll be taking the 10.

This bus is one of the most unreliable buses Muni runs. I walk the 10 route into work (20 minute walk) and unless the bus is right there 2 minutes away, it’s always best to walk because the bus sometimes never shows up (I kid you not – every other day I walk by a bunch of pissed off old people at my stop. Why? because the bus hasn’t shown up and they’re waiting for the next one).
I think the bus is fine at the beginning of the day, but by about 9:30 AM it’s become worthless.
Plus the hours are crap (daytime only) which is bad because 90% of the time that’s only a 1 way and the return from wherever is going to be some sort of convoluted F/​T/​9X + a hike.
Oh I also love how the 10 blows by people on Battery (going down) and Sansome (going up). Their excuse is that they don’t know that you’re not waiting for the commuter buses. Haha! Why bother having a stop?
I’m giving it 3 stars because it covers the Fisherman’s Wharf to Potrero Hill route (via FiDi and SoMa) which as many know there are few routes to the Wharf and fewer still to Potrero Hill. Plus the once in a while it magically appears from the ether right when I’m walking nearby. Ahh!