MUNI Light Rail Lines 

my only friend in sf is the muni train. i can get away from everybody i know in this miserable city.

In Hong Kong, we have trams or LRV (Light Rail Vehicle) similar to the ones in San Francisco and they run above ground. They move way faster even when having to share their lanes with other traffic on the streets. Maybe the MUNI ones are heavier and not easy to brake. Hence, the drivers are being extremely cautious and thus slow when operating on the street leve. Maybe...

if you go to San Francisco, and call The City "Frisco", you'll make no friends! To quote Ogden Nash, "May I be boiled in oil and fried in Crisco if I ever call San Francisco 'Frisco' "

I haven't been to Frisco in years. The last time I was out there in 1962 they had some strange looking streetcars that looked like buses.

Sorry, not now. But if you'd be so kind as to pay my train fare to San Francisco, I'd be happy to shoot more :o)

SFMTA aka Muni has to be The WORST public transport system I’ve ever had the displeasure of using.

Nice footage, great to see things are still as they were when I lived in The City. Of course, the streetcars are different. I used to shoot stills, back in the 80s, of PCCs and Boeing LRVs.

5:27 is the reason why they don't move fast. These trains only move fast in isolated lanes like the T line, because the older lines like the N, M, the K, ect, were built like trolley cars as oppose to lightrail systems. They go faster sometimes. The new lines using the same trains go a lot faster.

@jemdude22 It's only slow Aboveground. Underground it's really fast

:sigh: Their livery`s pretty close to the old livery of Laval buses except the silver isn't of the gleamingly glittery bright disco tone, and the too-low red band not a hot fiery orange..Laval`s livery highly signified to me (foreign) Americana..oh well. :)

Yes, these trains are slow on the surface streets. Except for stretches of the J and M lines on the surface and in subway tunnels the trains have to share space with autos, busses, pedestrians and cyclists as well as stop at signs and stop lights and slow down at switches. It is the only large city I have ever been where they run modern trains but without dedicated right of ways. They should all be put underground so you could truly get around this city quickly and efficiently.

they are nice but a bit slow....really slow!!

exciting video

The average speed is still 8.1 mph overall. That's only about twice as fast as a person's average walking speed.

Nice filming