![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve had two guns in my face here,” he says. He says he doesn’t actually mind the 800 but thinks the stop at Market and Van Ness is dangerous. Jared Olsen currently relies on the AC Transit bus to get home to Oakland after he gets off work at a San Francisco bar. ![]() “People who are out partying might use this once in a while,” he says, “ people who have a job that consistently gets them off work after the BART shuts down are going to use this every Friday and Saturday night, because there’s going to be a need for that.” And they picked their first two stops, 18th and Valencia in the Mission and 17th and Broadway in downtown Oakland, because they're popular nightlife destinations in both cities.Ĭapron says it's not just a bus for partiers. They still wanted the win-win-win, so they decided to give five percent of the proceeds to an Oakland education non-profit called GoPublic. They’d start with pickups every 25 minutes but planned to increase service and stop locations with demand. A single ride would cost $8, or you could get unlimited rides for about $20 per month. They built an app to handle fares and schedules. We could work something out.’”Ĭapron and Kaufman made a deal to rent the school buses from a transportation company and hire the same drivers that operate them during the day. “They said: ‘We have these buses and they’re not used then. “The bus providers were excited about it,” says Capron. Along the way, he found out that most school districts don’t actually own their own buses they charter them from private companies. He looked up census data to find out where people lived and where demand for the service might be. Kaufman, who used to be an economics researcher, started looking into the logistics. “As soon as we'd mention the idea to somebody, the main response was: ‘When do you start?!’” says Kaufman. Capron’s partner, Alex Kaufman, says there was immediate interest. And we’ve got the school systems who are struggling with budget cuts – and this is going to put money back into the school system,” says Capron. We’ve got the people who need rides and can get them on the buses. They thought they could put those buses to work. “School buses seemed like a great fit because there’s so many of them out there and they’re not used at nighttime,” Capron explains. Perhaps that’s why school buses came up when he and Kaufman were thinking of ways to get a lot of people back and forth across the Bay Bridge. I wonder if we can do anything about it.'”Ĭapron has a background in environmental studies, urban transportation, and education. ![]() About nine months ago, Capron says, “We were talking about it, and we thought, ‘Oh wow. Oakland residents Alex Kaufman and Seth Capron weren’t satisfied with these options. If you don’t want to wait, you can pay around $50 for a cab or about $25 for a car service like Lyft. The 800 line picks up every hour on weekdays and every half-hour on weekends, between one and five in the morning. It has two San Francisco pick-ups, both on Market Street – but Nichols-Schmolze isn’t wild about these choices. The 800 line is the only public transit option after BART stops running around midnight. To my knowledge it’s the only option that does that.” “ one very obvious purpose,” Nichols-Schmolze explains, “which is that it crosses the bridge after BART. Download the Muni Owl Service map to see them all, or follow the links below.At about 1:30am, after a night out with friends, Kyle Nichols-Schmolze is waiting for the AC Transit 800 bus near Market and Van Ness in San Francisco’s Civic Center. Muni Owls are divided into a few different levels of service: subway lines replaced with buses, full routes, shortened routes and special Owl-only service. nightly, serving San Franciscans and off-peak commuters. Muni Owls are also part of a regional late night transportation network called the All Nighter, which includes 20+ routes running overnight bus service connecting AC Transit, SamTrans, and Golden Gate Transit.įor overnight trip planning, including traveling into and outside San Francisco, visit. Muni's late-night transit service is called the Owl network and it's the strongest in the region. Owl service runs every half hour between 1 and 5 a.m. ![]()
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