How Fast is Public Transit in San Francisco?
According to this SPUR report, the 38 Geary travels an average of 5.3mph through downtown during peak times. Ouch!
I take the 24-Divisadero a lot since it runs by my house, so I decided to calculate its average speed. I used the awesome Gmaps Pedometer and to calculate route length: the 24-Divis travels 6.7 miles from Bayview to Pac Heights. The bus that leaves 3rd and Palou at 12:02 arrives at Jackson and Webster 12:49, which means the 24-Divis goes 8.5mph. Well, it’s faster than walking!
Somewhat related to Gmaps Pedometer, bikely is a site that uses Gmaps for sharing cool bike routes. There aren’t a lot of SF routes posted there. Someone should post the butter lap!
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Tagged: muni
neat! I’ll add some of my routes to Bikely :-) also, Arena has been working on a similar app that’s pretty nice called Velo Map. I think it should be out soon.
Yeah, most of the bus lines are insanely slow. I took the bus for a good many months and I would reluctantly have to say it’s one of those things that starts to grind away at the soul.