How Not to Make a Three-Point Turn
Photo by Gary via Muni rider Deb
UPDATE: Photog and submitter say this was a training bus: Double oof, if so.
In all fairness, it is really, really hard to make a three-point turn in the city.
Muni rider Deb shared this photo by Gary on the Muni Diaries Facebook page. Oof, right on the busy corner of Stockton and Columbus, too, where I wouldn’t even want to drive a Smart car, much less an articulated bus.
Apparently, after a couple more tries (blocking traffic all the while), the bus driver finally was able to get out of the way without taking down the tree or the building. No word on whether his or her pride was intact.
*We don’t *know* that this was an attempt at a three-point turn. We do know this is probably not the intended outcome, though.
From Columbus Street to Stockton Street?
I’d recommend straight on Stockton, left on Union, left on Columbus, slight right on Stockton. But what do I know?
i give the driver credit for Not abandoning ship! I thought this turn is illegal?
Additionally I wouldn’t even parallel park in the city, don’t want to see pictures of me in: you call this parking?
The unmentioned thing in the post was that it was a Training Coach!! lol!!
You can’t make an omelette without … never mind.
Yep – we just need to continue to buy longer buses, narrow streets, put in more bulbouts and parklets, more high density housing – then we’ll all walk like SFMTA and SPUR wants – an ideal city for the young and healthy and rich. Screw the elderly and disabled. The poor and middle class isn’t an issue, they will be gentrified out by then.
Can’t do that if it’s an electric trolley coach.
It’s a question of balancing passenger capacity with available drivers when articulated buses are used. A busy city needs ways of moving a lot of people around that doesn’t involve one person at a time (the common auto). I imagine Rick doesn’t ride Muni much because of his comment.