MUNI – 27 Bryant

The reasons why people don’t pay for public transportation in SF are many. However, one of those reasons is an inept bus driver. I wish I had the guy’s name so I could walk into your office and make a formal complaint

This bus route goes right by our house and straight to where my husband works. They have some new buses that are cleaner and never crowded on our end of town in the mission. It’s perfect!
– Except that it never comes when it’s supposed to.
Not sure what’s going on there but all the transportation apps say it’s 3 minutes away, 2 minutes, one minute and theeeeen it’s 30 minutes away. Sometimes I wonder if there is a ghost bus on this route that my app is tracking.

OMG — this and the 19-​Poke are the busses from hell. I ride each one several times a week. THe 27-​Bryant is a hot mess of epic proportions. It stops at every single friggin stop. 95% of the time, there are ALL of the following on it: an animal, a wheelchair, a walker, someone playing music, someone arguing. You can easily double the Northbound times for the Tenderloin as it stops at every stop and often has to wait several lights at Market and other lights, too. Entertainment whilst you ride — Only in San Francisco. LOL

One of the worst bus lines in the city. Numerous times there is a ‘27’ missing, 311 has the wrong information and the drivers are, for the most part, rude, unhelpful and ignorant — as are a lot of drivers that work for MUNI.
My experience today. Got to the bus stop just after 2:00pm and waited and waited. Called 311 at 2:17pm and was told there would be one at my stop in six minutes. Six minutes came and went and no sign of the 27. Called 311 again and was told that the bus I had been waiting for was now at Bush and Leavenworth (outbound) so I must have ‘missed’ it. Hard to do when I had been sitting on a bench at the bus stop the whole time. Other people waiting too. Told the operator he was wrong and that I had seen the bus go towards Van Ness and Jackson but it had still not come around the corner to Washington & Polk. He kindly gave me the ‘run #’ of the bus that should have arrived at 2:23pm and the # of the one that was going to now turn up in about 13 minutes. When the next 27 finally arrived, it had a different ‘run #’ on the front of the bus! The driver told me that the bus in front of him was missing! I called back 311 and asked why they had none of this information when I called earlier and why the run #’ did not correspond with the bus I was now on? They told me that the only bus missing had been the 2:00pm. So, that meant that there was a 40 minute wait for a bus because the 2:00pm was missing and so too was the 2:23pm bus!
The 311 GPS is inaccurate on many occasions and this line is notorious for ‘missing’ buses. Where the hell do they go? 311 is supposed to provide a public service but what good is it when it is not accurate? One operator told me recently that 311 was just an estimation of bus arrivals and departures and not meant to be accurate. With MUNI that sounds just about right — they are USELESS…

One of the worst horror shows in SF. Whatever the drivers are paid on the inbound route between Bryant & Geary, it’s not enough.

You know how on a Sunday, you assume the bus will be extra fast because no one has to be anywhere? Not the 27! Going down from Nob Hill, it stops at every single block picking up random idiots who go three blocks. It’s downhill, you jerks! Why do all of these stupid buses have to stop at every block?! That’s why no one wants to take the bus.
Also, it comes less frequently than any other line in the area.
I will give it one star for getting me home quickly at night when I happen to be deep in the Mission.
But seriously they need to revise this route.

not the worst, but certainly not the best.
i’m on the bus by 7am heading towards the mission so I don’t really experience the crowds or the totally weird happenings. Although i DO hate that it snakes through the the Tenderloin. It just seems inefficient! It does take a lot less time though to get to SOMA than the 10, 30, or 45, which is nice. I prefer the 10 though because it generally has better looking passengers. hehe

Not as frequent as the 30 or 45 line but its a less crowded line that gets me to the SOMA.

Not all that.
After reading all the bad reviews for this bus route I was disappointed that I didn’t get to see any of the rants about it. I’ve only taken the 27 a few times but to no avail there were no fights, no shopping bag count, and definitely no masturbation. Boo!
I guess I’ll keep riding it and I’ll update my post if I see anything worth talking about.

27 Bryant gets 4 stars because frequency on this route is very good. It takes me between Nob Hill and the Mission District. Overall, it’s not too bad!
FYI:
This route has stops across the street from Costco — convenience indeed. It also stops on Bryant at 22^nd St and 23^rd St, making a convenient access to San Francisco General Hospital.

Oh dear god, how I hate the 27! From the dude masturbating in the back of the bus to the ladies at the front with their 4,000 shopping bags, this bus is loaded with characters… and I don’t mean characters in a good sense.
This bus is also consistently the most off schedule of any bus I ever take. The last time I was waiting for it, the sign said «next bus, 10 minutes» which was then subsequently updated to 20 minutes and then 41 minutes. WTF 27 line?! I just want to get home before I’m old and gray!
It says a lot that I am willing to walk 3 miles with several heavy bags to avoid taking this bus.

This is by far the worst muni line I have ever taken. There are bums on this bus all the time. It also makes all these annoying turns. I can get off at 4 stops and pretty much walk the same amount to get home.
There are fights on this bus all the time and sometimes it run so freaking slow! I can walk faster.
2 stars just because it gets me where I need to go.

This is the only bus I can take to get home from Folsom to O’farrell but this but is constantly late, ALWAYS crowded as hell with rude people, drunks, crackheads and what not. I’ve been yelled at, punched in the face and pushed back and forth by impatient people who can’t seem to say «excuse me». And really, why do they use such a small bus instead of a double-​bus for this line? There are often 2 or 3 wheelchair passengers that they will cram onto a bus which can take up half the bus and it packs the rest of it like a sardine can! This is not the experience I want to have after a hard day’s work. Sometimes I rather just pay $ 10 to get home by taxi than have to deal with the drama of this bus.

So my friend tells me that she gets on the MUNI and says the driver, «I’m working with nothing.»
He says to her, «OK, but next time you gotta pay» and lets her ride.
My friend has got some pretty epic boobs, but that’s not why I think the driver let her ride. Now, it’s not like I’m salty she got a ride, and she was as stunned as anybody. I told her that’s just how it works.
There are tons of bums on the MUNI, and you know they aren’t paying. Literally covered with shit, a bum rolls on the MUNI and heads to the back of the bus sending the other riders fleeing like thousands of Japanese from Godzilla. This was my virgin MUNI ride back in 2002 and not much as changed I guess xD

It’s hard to give any MUNI line a good review with the way things have been going with them lately and the 27 unfortunately is no exception. Infrequent bus service, crowded busses and of course ghetto kids writing all over the place with shoe polish etc.
With fares going up you’d expect service to get better but as has been the case with the rest of our great public transit system, that just isn’t the case.

If I could give this bus zero stars I happily would!
It’s not so much the people as it is the actual bus and it’s route. What is the point of stopping at EVERY SINGLE BLOCK when going up leavenworth? I walk usually because hills = stellar ass, and I was block for block with this thing, and by the time I got home was 2 blocks ahead of it!
Unfortunately every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I have to take this bus, because it’s the only one that will take me to SF General Hospital. Picking it up in the morning isn’t so bad, as long as it truly comes on time. However riding home in the afternoon is a NIGHTMARE. When I get to the stop I check 3 things. next muni, google maps, and the sign at the stop. They all tell me different things.
Literally, the sign will say 5 minutes, then 30, then 2, then 12… ugh
Vomit

It’s a god damn traveling mental asylum! –1
It never shows up on time after Burlesque class. –1
The bus driver won’t say good morning back to me. –1
I sometimes think that I might possibly be killed. –2
I get to hear awesome jail stories. +6

A haiku:
Twenty seven bus
I hate you with all my heart
Drive into the bay

If you’re taking this bus towards downtown, I’d suggest grabbing it early in its route for the best chance to get a seat.
Don’t even bother taking it from Cyril Magnin back up, especially in the evenings. You’re better off climbing straight up Taylor on your hands and knees than dealing with the ALWAYS crowded and slow buses on their way back from the Mission.

This bus never come when you want it. You’ll be standing there, and standing there, and watching buses go in the other direction. It isn’t until you’ve decided to just walk to you destination that your bus will show up, but by that point in time you’ll be too far away from the bus stop, and end up sprinting two blocks to get the bus at the next stop…
Not to mention it’s always packed.