This. Bus. SUCKS. As far as I can tell, it runs with absolutely no consistency. I check NextMuni to plan my bus rides all the time now, which for any other bus line is spot-on and accurate. But I've found it's of absolutely no use to me when I catch the 33--one second, I'll check it and it says it's coming in 18 minutes; the next, it switches to 5 and I need to haul ass to have any chance of catching it. I've missed it twice trying to get from the Inner Richmond to the start of Golden Gate Park for my 3-mile run to the beach (which as a result turns out to be more like FOUR miles). And, while it has the potential to be a great line, spanning a large vertical expanse of the city, there are so many damn traffic lights and congested streets (especially Haight and 18th) that it's almost not worth it. Lurch. Stop. Go. Lurch. Stop. Go. WTF, we're only on 18th and Castro? **luurrchh people fall into each other** Oh God. I'd get out now but I'd have to hike up Twin Peaks. BUS DRIVER: "I'M NOT MOVIN' TIL YOU ALL MOVE TO THE DAMN REAR!" *sigh* Hiking it is. But, to be fair, the route is great. It's the only way to get from the Richmond to the Mission without having to transfer, and ideally would be the fastest, if it weren't for all the aforementioned problems. And... I guess I'm getting a lot of exercise? read more

The 33 is awesome, there is not an instance when I see buses on this route being super crowded. Overall, 33 Ashbury / 18th St is a very good route to take. This route passes by San Francisco General Hospital and California Pacific Medical Center (California Campus). For anyone working at either of the two hospitals mentioned, this is your route. 33 Ashbury / 18th St (Stanyan) to Sacramento and Cherry 33 Ashbury / 18th St (Stanyan) to Potrero & 25th St Correct zip code for the Castro area it passes by is 94114 read more

It doesn't come often enough. I was waiting at the bus stop and the next MUNI sign siad the next one would be in 35 minutes and I had already been sitting there for 5 minutes. And this is in the middle of the day on a weekday. I decided to walk instead. Earlier in the day I caught the same bus after waiting for 20 minutes. It was pretty full. I bet if it was more reliable more people would ride it more often. I am sure many people have caught cabs while waiting for the 33, I almost did. 3 stars because it's better than walking. read more

Semi on time. Bus driver does their best due to traffic, aka trucks blocking traffic (leaving emergency lights on, cars parking in bus stops, pedestrians not letting bus pass by, difficult turns during the route. Drops off next to whole foods and mcds. read more

It will always be the 33-Stanyan to me, but 33-Ashbury would have been, well, fine. But really, Muni, you just had to add 18th? Because nothing is less confusing on a bus marquee than lots and lots and lots of numbers. It's still one of my favorite Muni lines, and that right turn is still epic. The marquee will continue to confuse me for a few years, I'm sure, but change isn't always entirely bad. There, I wrote it. read more

The only Muni route I've been on that consistently carries cockroaches as well as passengers. Careful about dozing off on this slow ass bus and letting your head rest against a window sill, you might take home a new friend. And no, I'm not joking. read more

As a concept, I like the fact that you could, actually, exist. If you were, in fact, real... you could get me from Clement and Arguello to Amoeba Records... But it's been 45 minutes and I'm still waiting for you to arrive. read more

Hairy shoulder, balding spot, French beret, and polka dots Flower power, Castro, Mission Richmond, Laurel, Whole Foods addiction Potrero thru Haight/Ashbury, stops Muni line, number three three.. stunning view of San Francisco. My first time on line 33.. read more

this is one of the craziest and most relaxing of the muni routes. you get to see SF from Downtown to Golden Gate Park for just $2. Really worth the price because out of all other routes this bus really kept me calm instead mad and lonely over my head. IDK why but the drivers on this route are nice and sometimes they may even talk to you about good places to go in SF. read more

Dear Muni 33 Line, I needed to write this to you because I think I'm in love with you. Sure, I've been around the block, but so have you and I gotta tell you, I think you're the best. Sure, you may not always be on time, but then neither am I. Your seats are usually clean, your drivers friendly, and you take me right from my house to just about anywhere I like to regularly go. I have seen countless good looking eye candy on your route, you stop in the Ho-stro of Castro, you take me to all my spots in the Mission and to all my shops in the Haight. Who couldn't love you? read more

Ok so I didn't know Yelp did public transit.... Moved here 4 months ago from a city with grrrreat public trans. Maybe I am overly demanding, but fuck this bus. Every 20-45 minutes? Really? If i didn't have to wait that long, it wouldn't be awful. But it is. read more

Anonymous local guy to anonymous visiting girl: "This bus has the best view of the east bay you'll ever see." Assuming he was referring to the crazy turn at Market/Clayton, which is indeed a spectacular view of downtown and the east bay beyond that. Enough to turn the anonymous visiting girl into an anonymous local girl. read more

This bus takes me from the Inner Richmond to Haight to Twin Peaks to Castro to Mission (and reverse). Unfortunately, moving away from Western Addition, where I took either the 21 or 5, has resulted in a huge downgrade of available eye candy during the morning commute. Whatevs. I will just pop in my headphones, rock out with my iPod and watch the regulars stream in. read more

This is my favorite MUNI line - impressive, considering that other options include cable cars and light rails that arrive far more often. So what's the deal with the 33? The hairpin turn under Twin Peaks, of course. There's an incredible view across the entire eastern half of the city, and you can even see Oakland on a clear day. At the same time, you get the thrill of riding the bus as it is maneuvered in a totally ridiculous manner. For the most part the epic turn is seamless, but if you ride the 33 often enough you'll find there are a few things that must come together before it can happen. As the bus approaches, the light changes so that all other traffic halts. If something goes wrong, there is a secret failsafe button on one of the light poles, allowing the driver to trigger the lights manually. Yeah, yeah, I know - if you're a 33 veteran you know that already. Do you know what the failsafe failsafe is, though? I didn't think so. Well, it turns out to be Random Passenger's Umbrella. I once sat in the 33 for a solid 5 minutes while the driver tried to figure out how to hit the button that she had driven by before realizing the lights weren't going to change. Could she get out of the bus and do it from ground level? Well, if she were 10 feet tall, maybe. Back up the bus? If only there weren't a dozen cars there. Eventually, after conferring with the passengers and trying a few other options, she managed to barely reach the magical light-changing button with someone's umbrella. Presto! Like a bizarrely patched-together machine, the lights turned, the bus turned, and in its usual unwieldy way it came within inches of the cliff, only to straighten out and creep up Clayton as if it were no big deal. The 33-Stanyan: beautiful, death-defying, absurd. If you're lucky, you might one day bond with your driver and fellow passengers through a magical traffic button adventure. If you're extra lucky, you could be the person who feels like a superhero just for remembering to bring an umbrella that day. Whatever your adventure, it's not likely to involve firearms or sex acts, unlike some other bus lines (the 9, anyone?). read more

I don't understand why the 33 inbound always takes from 40 to 60 min. And then when you think there's left min left to wait, it just increases the time. Sometimes i have the 40 min but if I look at the time I've waited longer!! It just makes no sense why this bus always takes so freaking long!!!! I just want to get home every night and not have to wait an hr bur a bus. read more

more like the 33 Ghost. This bus is always around when you don't need it, waiting for a 22? what will roll by? none other than a 33, waiting for hte 27, oh look there goes the 33, waiting for the 33.... and 33 minutes later still knw sign? well.... you've been ghosted. But seriously, the 33 has great potential, it's a whore of a bus connecting almost all SF neighborhoods. Now if it could come a little more often, that would be great. Ever since I discovered I could check nextbus.com on my cell phone I debate waiting for the 33 or walking home, and when I look and see the next bus isn't expected for another 42 minutes, I figure a nice walk would be just dandy. read more

Bus 33, where are you? Like seriously, where are you? This line has saved my ass more times than I can remember when the J-Church gets bitchy and decides to go on hiatus. And, it can get me to a Castro bar in one bus ride when I start hating on the Haight. But really, where's the g-d bus? read more

My shuttle to the Richmond with great views on the city. It gets even better than that. I fell asleep yesterday night while heading home and the driver knew where I was going because I asked him if he was stopping at the deposit on Mariposa or continuing on Potrero. He woke me up and stopped on Potrero for me. This would fall into the category of nice service but I thought it was a beautiful human gesture. Love you Muni driver *heart* read more

I would totally rank the 33 as 0 stars. NEVER EVER arrives on time and usual wait times seem to be 20 minutes. I'm sorry, but this is, by far, one of the worst lines I have encountered. I have been taking Muni for several years and I have to say that I have never had to wait so long for a bus that should be more consistent. Sure, I'm glad it's still running, but the 33 could VASTLY improve. read more

This is another nice route that takes you around Eureka Valley, Twin Peaks, and the Haight. However, that right turn on Market and Clayton doesn't seem like a good idea. I'd suggest adding some sort of bridge from Market to Clayton but that would really screw up traffic. Otherwise, nice MUNI line. read more

As a friend once said, the 33 "traffics hipsters from one Buffalo Exchange to the other." True that--and the precious hipster-laden crowd certainly doesn't dissuade you from believing it. A weekend could be wasted waiting for the 33 to come, but, when you get on in the Richmond, you'll float down hills and come out of the lackluster fog into the rainbow-honeyed streets of the Castro or to hipster/Latino hunting in the Mission. Basically, I worship any bus route that isn't running in parallel lines to every other bus route. Congratulations on your Looping, Zigzagged ways! read more

Ah, I love you because you take me directly to such radical locales as the Haight, the Castro, and the Mission from the Inner Richmond without having to dick around on horrible corners on Geary, waiting for the wild 22-Fillmore or other lines of ill-repute. I hate you because like the Flying Dutchman, you appear sporadically, only when I least expect you... once I've given up all hope of you showing up tonight. One can only hang out at 18th and Mission listening to blasting Indian techno spilling from that store for so long. But I forgive you because unlike every other damn route I have to deal with on a daily basis, you offer seats, and an amazing view... the crazy Market-Corbett turn ya'll? read more

What other line can take you all the way from the Mission, through the Castro, Haught, GG Park to the edge of Presidio?

The 33 Stanyan covets the "I took your MUNI bus virginity" award from the book of andrew 01:2004. It was the bus I took from 16th st. bart up into the upper market... It was quite confusing, but clean and fun at the same time! read more

The route itself has a lot of potential which is why I have had several experiences with it, unfortunately many of them disappointing. I'd actually say that taking the 33 westbound has rarely been a problem at all - usually on time, picks me up, and who doesn't love the huge turn from Market onto Clayton? It's the return eastward from the northeastern corner of GG Park that always burns me. That corner of Arguello and Fulton has been something of a home away from home on numerous Saturday afternoons - waiting and wondering, wondering and waiting. It's become kind of a joke - one that even my parents in Michigan get. Three or four 21 buses might pass, and just as many 33s headed in the other direction before that blessed chariot comes swinging off of Arguello onto Fulton. By then there is a mass of people waiting, many of them cold from the late afternoon breezes and all of them irritated at the wait. Returning from the park on this bus can really try your patience and deflate an otherwise great day. read more

Solid, solid, bus line. I usually catch this on the corner of 18th and Castro and take it out into the Haight. Always comes at semi regular intervals. Which might not seem like a lot but if you're a child of the MUNI as I am, you understand the benefits of a busline that stays true to its scheduling. (except of course during peak hours, sometimes it can get a little sluggish trying to pull through 18th street. One of the best views of the city EVER can be seen while riding this bus into the Haight. Right when you turn right off Market to start to head down Ashbury if you look to your left you'll find youself looking at a beautiful panaromic view of our glorious city. And all for the low low price (wtf muni with continuously raising muni fares??) of your bus fare. read more

The views are great and this Line is convenient running from SF General through the Mission, Castro, and Sunset but its not as if Muni is sitting in reading Yelp reviews considering and making improvements based on Yelp, is it?! read more

MUNI - 33 Ashbury-18th - Since when is Muni a bleedin School Bus?!! - Public Transportation Near Me - San Francisco, California

Got told I put my bike on the bus too slow and I was keeping everyone waiting. I'm sorry I'm making sure my bike doesn't fall off and get crushed and hurt someone or something :') Please go inhale a cactus. read more

Muni can't print a schedule and stick to it so the fact that you may have to wait an hour or more for a bus to turn up is nothing unusual. This bus is an electric bus so it's really jerky and super sucks if you have to stand. Every time I've been on here it fills up as we get close to Mission Street and invariably some short person who can't reach the overhead bar will either loose grip on the vertical pole or just give up holding on and totally fall down. When will these people learn? Wide Stance! Wide Stance... read more

Take a ride from one hospital (sfgh) to another sutter. Go through the neighborhood where no one pays to ride muni, through rainbows, over the hills, to tattoos/piercings & very chilled out neighborhoods, this bus ride is definitely a must do for any tourists. read more

Beautiful bus ride that goes through all my favorite neighborhoods. Minus a star for only coming every 20 minutes

since you are muni you can't get 5 stars and since you are the muni you are never really on time, but you pick me up at my door and take me on a magical journey in both directions.... one takes me over the beautiful hills (awesome view) to amoeba so i can spend the money i don't have on records. in the other you go to potrero hill so i can put what little money i have in the bank and you also go to the only red sox bar near me! let's go red sox! read more

in an odd way i must admit that this is for sure my favorite bus line muni has to offer. that is perhaps only because ive never really had to be anywhere at a certain time when taking it. yes, its true the 33 will have you waiting. if i had to take it to work or school on a consistant basis id probably hate it but luckily that isnt the case. its the only bus that will take you directly from the richmond district to the haight/castro/mission/potrero hill neighborhoods. pretty impressive. the sharp turn on market is always a pleasure to watch happen and the views of the city are in a league of their own. the crowd too is always interesting. whether it be old people going to the medical centers, the dolores park party animals, the well-to-do buena vista crowd, the hippies/stoners/tourists in the haight, the kids from mission high school, the hipsters in the mission, to the taggers hitting up the windows to the gays in the castro, you never know what to expect. but unlike other buses that are similar this one is usually pretty mellow. sure sometimes i do wish that it ran later in to the night and that it would perhaps move a little bit faster sometimes, but when looking back on my hundreds of trips on the 33 its been 98.5% wonderful. *high five 33 stanyan* read more

I love this route, only wish the buses ran more often, especially on weekends. The 33 is perfect for getting to most of my favorite SF neighborhoods and the stops are very convenient. The views at Twin Peaks are always nice. The 33 has had the longest wait times I've seen on Nextbus, 45 mins until the next bus isn't very comforting. I wish this route could get me to work instead of just to fun. read more

* quick note for the short-attention-span reader: for this line, Nextbus.com will tell me there's a bus in "2 mins / 40 mins" when there is really one coming in 20 minutes as well. once I figured out this glitch, I've been able to trust the Nextbus predictions for this line. I loves this line. damn. it literally stops at my doorstep. it used to take me straight to my job at General Hospital. Now it takes me straight to my new job at St. Mary's. it's always been on time for me. one morning, I get on the bus, bound for work, and the bus driver immediately spooks me with her springy cheerfulness. Her name is Chris, I think, and she is a beautiful Black woman with the shiniest, sunniest attitude I've ever seen in a MUNI driver. I hear her remark that she hasn't had her morning coffee yet. (watch out)... She seems to know all the passengers on the bus and hangs out the window to say hi to people on the street. thank you for making my morning surreal, adorable MUNI goddess. read more

I love this bus because it takes me from the Richmond to the Haight to the Castro and then Mission. Two stars is amazing considering how much DPT hates you. read more

This bus took me where I needed to go, but it rarely did it on time. It was definitely a love hate relationship. I loved only having to take one bus line to get between the Inner Richmond and the Mission but I hated the fact that I would wait forever for it and then two would show up at the same time. I definitely don't miss riding it but I get a little nostalgic for it everyone once in a while. read more

Minus 2 stars for, lack of frequency, and more recognizable stops for this line. Other than that its a great ride with a fantastic view. Twin peaks is easily accessible via stairs. Hippie hill can be reached on haight and stanyan so think of this line for your 420 muni line. Sf general is on this line as well. read more

Very random and don't expect to arrive at the same time everyday, BUT it sure beats taking the 22 if you are going to be connecting with the 38 to get to the outter Richmond. The 33 was my either my 2nd or 1st leg to get from Arguello to 16th/Bryant. Pretty much empty in the mornings getting on at Arguello and not too bad crowd wise when getting off at Bryant. On the way home I usually walk the extra block and pick it up at 16th/Potrero to make sure I get a seat. Pretty packed until you get to Castro and then it's pretty light all the way back to Arguello. A good bus if you need to bring your small dog and like I said, it surely beats taking the 22! Just give yourself extra time since it is so random. read more

ahhh the 33 Stanyan. My favorite commute bus even though the 21 Hayes lands on my doorstep and transfers me to the ghetto ass 22 Fillmore. I still walk 6 blocks to Ashbury for a trouble free morning ride to the Mission just to avoid the hassle of getting on two buses. The ride to work is fine, its the ride home that often sucks ass. The good part is, all the drunk mexicans and street people that often smell like hot garbage, urine and stale beer get off the bus on 16th street. One time a guy was so wasted that he almost poured a mystery liquid all over me while trying to get it from his paper bagged bottle into a gatorade container. I'm usually feeling postal on the ride home, just to warn you. I may be sitting quietly listening to Lamb of God on my Ipod, but really I'm thinking of ways to kill all of you. My favorite seat is the one closest to the back door so i can snear at the low life's that sneak onto the back when the driver is preoccupied. One day i will stab you in the eye for this. So, yea..I recommend the 33 Stanyan. Use the back door. don't forget to bring sunflower seeds and a cell phone that plays songs through a tiny speaker so we can all hear it too. My fist, your face. read more