Oh Muni, how you make my ride so interesting

Those poor cross-town express Muni drivers who have never done the trip before. Today's new driver, who apparently had never driven the route or even been on the route before, took us on a tour of Golden Gate Park before finally getting back to 9th and Irving.

The express route heads west on Fell and is supposed to veer left onto Kezar after passing Stanyan and eventually end up on Lincoln, instead, the bus veered right onto Kennedy Drive and into Golden Gate Park. The driver apparently thought she was going the right way; in fact, before passing Stanyan, she was in the correct land and actually changed lanes and moved into the wrong lane. So, we continue down Kennedy Drive, past the Conservatory of Flowers, and then turning left to pass in front of the De Young Museum, and following a 44 bus to 9th Avenue. I might add, once someone finally told our driver she made a wrong turn, I feared that the driver was going to attempt a u-turn on Kennedy to get back to Kezar.

Bus turns on Lincoln, I get off, and I hear the driver say- "So, there's no more stops until 19th, right?" Wrong!!! The express bus stops like 4 more times before 19th Avenue.

Good job Muni for doing a bang-up job preparing drivers for new routes, so I've now been on buses where the driver skips stops, asks passengers which way to go, and now have completely gotten lost. I can only hope that some of money they are trying to wring out of us passengers goes toward familiarizing drivers with their routes before letting them loose on the streets.