200-SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL!!! Original MUNI Route Announcements owned by the SFMTA!

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Dear SFMTA, please don't ban this video, as you understand that I am not using your audio files for commercial purposes.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

Very impressive, Anton! Congratulations on achieving (more than) 200 subscribers! I can tell how hard and creatively you worked on this compilation video! I can even hear your voice in some of the bus route announcements. :) What's interesting is that I remember many routes that are now defunct or still in service, respectively, having route announcements recited by the lady robot voice pre-December 2009 that were different than the ones we have today and that you compiled here based on the given routes' destinations at the time and/or the programming of the (male) robot voices moving forward. In addition, there were some routes at that time whose destinations were the same as they are now, but the lady robot announced them slightly differently in terms of their wording even if the destination displays themselves onboard the Muni vehicles themselves (most of which were Orion VII's, Neoplans, and ETIs) were written identically to how they are shown publicly now. Also, from 16:52-17:28, you accidentally left out the following defunct route announcements for certain routes in certain directions of travel: the 15-Third Street's outbound route announcement: "15-Third Street to...City College"; the 16AX-Noriega 'A' Express's outbound route announcement: "16AX-Noriega 'A' Express to...48th Avenue"; the 16BX-Noriega 'B' Express's outbound route announcement: "16BX-Noriega 'B' Express to...Sunset Boulevard"; the full route announcement for the 17-Park Merced (inbound and outbound) was: "17-Park Merced to...West Portal Station". :)

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Thank you, Mr. Felton, for your kind words. I indeed spent a lot of time compiling this video (about two weeks), and I took it off post-production the day it was premiered. Regarding the details for some of the defunct routes, I didn't know that! Good to know!

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

🙂@@muniadventureswithantonmor8058

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

Yeah, I remember that too! Also, I remember that the 38 was the only route that began and ended its complete run of automated announcements at either end of the line with "Thank you for riding Muni" at that time (pre-December 2009). @@thedamntrain222

[@muni_Thomas_boi]

I love this video so much I even like that you added alternative destinations for the 38 now I can hear the announcements for buses been suspended or defunct

[@taytertransit]

Congratulations on 200 subscribers! I like the fictional announcements you added. I have these as well, haha! Thanks for posting this!

[@AznIntegra521]

Btw there is no 2 clement right now, and the 3 jackson is suspended. Right now the 2 clement has been turned into the 2 sutter line and thats running in place of the 3 jackson

[@m0istl0la97]

89 Laguna is probably the shortest Muni route in Muni history

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Cool, right? Let's keep the subscriber amount growing!

[@MychaelHall24]

I hear those all the time on Muni

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Ironically, I also hear them all the time on MUNI! :)

[@theaustinleeytchanneltalytc]

That's very cool!

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Thanks! It was quite challenging to combine these together!

[@theaustinleeytchanneltalytc]

@@muniadventureswithantonmor8058 You actually beat me to it with the announcements. I was planning on making a video of improvised Muni announcements.

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Very curious to see how it turns out! 😁

[@theaustinleeytchanneltalytc]

​@@muniadventureswithantonmor8058I'm scratching the idea. Time's not going to bode well.

[@muni_Thomas_boi]

Did you know that there's actually a Muni line called the 77 Brotherhood way

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

It is a defunct line.

[@muni_Thomas_boi]

@@muniadventureswithantonmor8058 oh

[@theloser265]

Wish the website uploads the S-Z letters announcements

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Alas, this may be impossible in the near future. :(

[@nathanhuang3737]

The 31 will probably get a Caltrain Depot announcement soon. Where in the internet did you even find this, and why would anyone put this online?

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Read the description and find out :)

[@jasminehyman2671]

Please hold on

[@PresquileTO]

amazing

[@theloser265]

Funny how they have the 11 and the 32 but don’t have the 83X

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

These announcements were requested by a Senior Vice President of a technical company, but unfortunately, not all announcements available were offered to him. I was hoping SFMTA would release all sound bites.

[@PrimeR10]

Soo uh.. how did you do that destination sign? Is there a website for that?

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

I drew it myself.

[@johnchen7956]

I don't understand the purpose of ax and bx

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

The "AX" serves the first half of the original route, and the "BX" serves the second half, but at some point they run without stopping, and both arrive at the same destination.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

Their purpose was to add additional express bus service during weekday morning and evening rush hours/peak periods that contained additional ridership on those given routes pre-pandemic. Pretty much every passenger on those AX and BX routes worked in office buildings located in San Francisco's Financial District downtown. Once the pandemic hit and more and more people began working from home, the AX and BX routes were done away with due to low ridership. Given that the AX and BX routes served riders commuting to and from downtown daily, the given express routes served as extra speedy means of public transit service by picking up passengers traveling straight from the inner Richmond (1BX, 31BX, 38BX), the outer Richmond (1AX, 31AX, 38AX), the inner Sunset (16BX), and the outer Sunset (16AX) towards downtown without making any stops in between. These express bus routes were in turn much faster than their sibling Rapid routes and of course their sibling regular/local routes, thereby relieving the given Rapid routes and regular/routes of overcrowding during morning and evening weekday rush hours/peak periods.

[@muni_Thomas_boi]

But you forgot one line

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

Which one?

[@muni_Thomas_boi]

@@muniadventureswithantonmor8058 the 12th Pacific

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

​@@muni_Thomas_boi I didn't plan it since it is not a constant route.

[@muni_Thomas_boi]

@@muniadventureswithantonmor8058 oh

[@muniadventureswithantonmor8058]

But I have the original announcement though.