The Muni Potrero Yard trolleybus tour was super neato. I’ve been bike commuting past this station for fifteen years off and on (less so the last five) and it was a special treat to tour around inside where some of the lines I ride the most call home before it is rebuilt into a modern facility.
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)@scott@carfree.city ty for the hot tip, got tickets to the Wednesday tour for the family and I.MastodonFigure 1. A photograph looking southwest from the rooftop of the yard where the bus tire shed is, looking down at buses that remain at the full capacity station when most are out on routes. Dozens of SF MTA trolley busses are parked in rows in the foreground, with the closest parked next to what I learned are giant industrial vacuums that are not used anymore. The top half of the photo is a blue sky with whispy white clouds. Sutro tower, an SF landmark, is recognizable on the horizon to the right..Figure 2. A bulletin board of notices for route operators of the routs that are homed in this staion. Hand cut red letters are taped to the top which say POTRERO STATIONclipboards for six lines are mounted on the board under white paper with red lettering indicating the line they correspond do.From left to right:5R - LINE, 6 - LINE, 14 - LINE, 22 - LINE, 30 - LINE, 49 - LINEI take the 14 and 49 very frequently, I used to take the 22 less frequently and now infrequently but it is a critical line to me when I need. Love to see this!.Figure 3. A printed notice to operators pinned to the board which I cropped to not display anyone’s names or dates. All text on the page is capitalized and underlined. A pictogram of a red circle with a red slash (the “forbidden”symbol) has a figure reclining on the red slash and Z z z’s trailing from the mouthAbove:SLEEPERSSTOP BRINGING SLEEPERS TO THE YARD, PERIOD!I love signs like this and type like this. PERIOD!If you haven’t nodded off on a Muni give it a try, it’s a delight, I did on the 12 line heading home from a Giants game only a few days ago! “Wow right before my stop” I thought as I noticed I’d napped a bit..
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and a half mile (two and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 2900 steps and 59 feet (18 meters) elevation over three and a half hours, (half an hour moving).
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a six and a quarter mile (10 and a quarter kilometer) ride is indicated. About 125 feet (38 meters) elevation over half an hour.
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a three and a half mile (five and three quarters kilometer) ride is indicated. About 43 feet (13 meters) elevation over a quarter hour.
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and a quarter mile (two kilometer) walk is indicated. About 2500 steps and 69 feet (21 meters) elevation over three quarters of an hour, (half an hour moving).
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and three quarters mile (two and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 3600 steps and 59 feet (18 meters) elevation over two and a half hours, (half an hour moving).
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a three and three quarters mile (five and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 7300 steps and 69 feet (21 meters) elevation over four and a quarter hours, (one hour moving).
Took the fam to the Pulgas Temple via the Sheep Camp Trail, saw flowers, saw water, saw lizard, saw deer, saw snek, not bad for a 'burbs hike!
the first time I came out here in '17 we took a more boring route and saw none of these things save the water, go figure.
Figure 1. A green sign with white uppercase routed letters hanging from a green pipe on a larger steel pole, surrounded by green deciduous, pine, and bushes under a clear blue sky, which reads:PULGAS TEMPLETERMINUSHETCH HETCHY AQUEDUCTSAN FRANCISCOWATER DEPARTMENT.Figure 2. a smattering of papery-leafed pink flowers with yellow centers over greenery.Figure 3. a ground covering greenery with tiny yellow flowers.Figure 4. photograph of the pulgas temple, a (pasting from wikipedia) a circle of fluted Corinthian columns surmounted by a large masonry ring bearing the inscription "I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people" [from Isaiah 43:20]. There is a reflecting pool lined with cypress trees..Figure 5. a mama doe on a hillside of grass. behind the doe the brush thickens but is not a forrest, in which two others (at least) younger deer linger, unpictured but who walked by just after I took this photo.Figure 6. a black snake about two feet long with white rings and a white belly crosses left to right on a gravel path.Figure 7. The same snake from passing by, heading away from me.
Figure 1. A map of California. The path of a four and three quarters mile (seven and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 9600 steps and 397 feet (121 meters) elevation over two and a quarter hours, (one and three quarters hours moving).
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and three quarters mile (two and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 3600 steps and 39 feet (12 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours, (half an hour moving).
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