On one side of the park is the 7 line Haight Noriega--it's scenic and goes by Haight Street. On the other side is the 5 Fulton and it goes downtown and to the beach. It's a straight arrow and less scenic. It goes by USF as the center. It's fast and always running. Lots of activity for the Richmond district. read more

3 stars for the 5 Fulton because - it takes me to and from Downtown and Ocean Beach - buses on this route are frequent which is always a good thing Outer Richmond District zip code - 94121 94122 is a zip code for the Sunset District FYI: This route makes stops at: - University of California, Hastings Law School - Superior Court of San Francisco - Civic Center Courthouse - California Public Utilities Commission - City Hall - University of San Francisco Now with service on this route provided by motor coach Monday - Friday, it's sure a relief for passengers and operators. read more

What is there to say? Gets you from downtown all the way to the Richmond district and drops you off right across from the DeYoung and Cal Academy and if you're a student, at the doorstep of USF and the law school. My friend who lived in the Outer Richmond swears Fulton Street is the fastest way across town so East to West, 5-Fulton it should be. The only oddball thing is you catch it on McAllister Street well after it passes City Hall that bisects its route until it finally turns right at Central and heads up Fulton. read more

It's time to get all roly-poly, folks, to gets as downright pill-buggy as possible, people, because the 5-Fulton is now the bus line it has always wanted to be, the bus line of the people, by the people, for the people. The 5-Fulton now whisks its denizens to their homes more quickly, and it uses the new-new hybrid buses, at least for the time being. I'm slightly disturbed by the mild confusion and not-so-mild socioeconomic segregation that the 5-Fulton/5L-Fulton Limited split has caused, but in a few months, everyone will know which bus she needs to ride, and at that point, everyone will be happier. There won't the harrumphing at EVERY SINGLE BLOCK between Gough and Fillmore, and the Outer Richmondites will become less impatient with their Western Addition fellow travelers. Everyone's just trying to get home, and that's why the new and improved 5 is so special. They've eliminated loads of redundant stops, and while I disagree with at least one and maybe more of them (Baker really does need a stop for all the old folks who live in those two buildings), everything can and probably will be forgiven. They're also moving existing bus stops to more intuitive, easier-access locations, and the ones they've completed already work really well. So call me a fan in the faithful, most wonderful sense. The improved 5 and the new 5L make me wish wish wish for a 21L-Hayes Limited, and while I don't see that coming anytime soon, I can ignore the street signs for a while, get my exercise, and fall in love again with waiting at the bus stop on McAllister and Divis. read more

Horrible service ! Terrible I rang 6 times for her to let me out at my stop and she just passed it whoever hired her needs glasses and a brain read more

MUNI - 5 Fulton - Public Transportation Near Me

The MUNI gets more and more dangerous every day. I've been riding it on several lines for years and years now and I don't think I can manage anymore. You will be constantly surrounded by scary people riding for free or put in other very dangerous situations. More often than not, buses are full during peak usage hours which results in waiting around until a bus is nice enough to stop. Note that some buses will keep going just because they see a crowded stop even though there is clearly room for more people on their buses. When you do get on you notice the large amount of people who get on for free and make it hard for those who want to pay to be able to ride it in the first place. If you pay for a pass like me you're basically subsidizing all the free loaders. If you value your safety and sense of smell, stay away. read more

I don't live in the Richmond or NOPA or Alamo Square or Crack Alley, but I've taken the 5 Fulton many times since it's the only line that drops me in front of my doctor's office for non-Emergency visits like the flu or anal leakage. Recently I saw my personal Hippocrates to eliminate a very large cystic zit on my right cheek. I guess this makes me superficial like the rest of you nasty fucking bitches. Yes, YOUUUU! That's right, I DIDN'T RETURN TO KISS YOUR ASS! I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF, NU-UHH -- come to think of it, I'm not here to make me feel good about myself. Anyway, this zit was a) painful, like douching with bleach and b) looked even MORE obvious since it was discolored and the only zit on my cheek, and I seriously contemplated perforating my face with a fork so said cystic zit wouldn't, ummmmm, stand out so much. Now, if you thought a month-long prescription of tetracyclines or La Prairie concealer would fix it, you'd be dead wrong. No, MY DOCTOR INJECTED THE FUCKER WITH A CORTICOSTEROID THAT LOOKED LIKE SEMEN! And if that wasn't bad enough, the zit actually DOUBLED in size and was BANDAGED. So I left, shades in full effect, feeling even uglier than I did before I visited since I now had a LARGER FUCKING LUMP on my face AND a bandage on it to make it even more conspicuous. Thankfully, I didn't have to wait 10 minutes for the next 5 Fulton like I usually do. I took an aisle seat at the back, facing the last row of seats occupied by a man who looked like Joe The Plumber, only less Neo-Nazi in appearance and more of a bearded garden-variety ass-crack pipe cleaner. At Divisadero, a pale woman stumbled towards the back and sat next to Joe The Plumber, facing me. Clearly under the influence of some substances (I guessed psychedelics), she had long wavy black hair and mirrored aviators -- she had the demeanor of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and the drug habits of Janis Joplin. Basically, a Goth Hippie. She screamed "Okay Sistah, come back HEAAAA!" to her cracked-out pock marked friend in skintight black acid wash jeans and a weathered Billy Joel t-shirt. Let's call her Whitney. I sat there, watching Elvira and Whitney make passes at Joe The Plumber, cackle uncontrollably, and call folks on Elvira's KRZR. "Stay calm, Darin" I said to myself. "Don't engage." See, fucking crazy people, they like talking to me for some reason, it always happens, the druggies are ESPECIALLY drawn to me -- I don't know why, I mean I haven't done hard drugs since OH-HO, YOU ALMOST GOT ME THERE! -- but frankly with my broke-ass Coyote Ugly face I had no interest in making small talk with rock smokers so I turned up the music on my iPhone. When the bus stopped in the 'loin, Elvira and Whitney got up -- "almost there, Darin," I thought, "they're getting off" -- and as they were leaving Elvira waved at me, I took out an earphone, she bent over and whispered "I like your SSSSHHHIRRRTT." Then Whitney passed, she placed her hand on my shoulder, squeezed it, and singsonged "And *I*, I like your hairrrrrr! You so hawwwwt!" And they both disembarked, giggling like schoolgirls. A $1.50 fare made me a sex object in the crack whore community and provided a lesson in urban sociology. Three stars! read more

Man, I'm not sure if the 5 Fulton cut their service in half or if the Outer Richmond has welcomed a slew of new residents recently, but this MUNI line is really taking a beating. It's always overcrowded, the drivers are quick to pick fights with riders, and if you're trying to catch the bus at 8:00am anywhere in the NOPA area, every bus passes you by without stopping due to being far beyond the legal capacity. It's actually faster to walk to SOMA from this part of town than it is to wait the 7-10 minutes for the next bus to arrive, only to be shunned once it hits your stop. In short, the 5 Fulton is dead to me. read more

Dear Ballerinas.... I can appreciate that youre all cultured and flexible and shit with your plies and your demi entrechats, but fuck man. You all need to roll 300 deep on my bus? I have a job and shit. And your hobby hinders me from making it downtown in a timely fashion. I dont know, maybe im jealous i cant perform a devant en cloche, or a sweet pirouette. Maybe im jealous that im not 15 anymore and i cant get on a bus with 30 friends and talk about "ZOMG Charis totaly took me out of her Top 8!" Maybe. But im fucking not. I just wanna get to work. So dance at home like i do. Love, Mick read more

2.5 stars, rounded down. The 5 is quickly becoming one of my least favorite MUNI lines in the City. If you're going outbound, the stretch from Ocean Beach to about Stanyan is tolerable, but once you go past Stanyan, any positive thoughts that you might have about taking the bus, being green, etc. flies out the window because 1) the extreme crowdedness makes it incredibly unpleasant; 2) the extreme slowness tests even the most patient person; and 3) people's behavior will drive you up a wall. The first two annoyances are self-explanatory, but the third one requires some clarity. For some unexplainable reason, even when the bus is very crowded, the commuters on this bus enjoy standing right in front of the precious few empty seats and NOT sit down. So basically, they're not only taking up even more room in the already-clusterfucky bus but also preventing other people from accessing those rare empty seats. Sit the eff down, please. I see this happening way too often for it to be just an exception! The only positive thing I can say is that the bus is alright late at night, when there's no people on it (hence, there's no idiotic behavior/people to hate on), and it's significantly faster. But during any other time of the day, especially during the weekdays, it's such an unpleasant experience, that you should avoid it if you can. And if you can't, well, then plug in some earphones and good luck, fellow sufferers. I'm right there with you. read more

I have lived on McAllister street for many many years, and the 5 fulton is still the 5 fulton. It runs all the time, but it is slow and overcrowded. Muni has, to their credit, improved the line mightily by adding the 5R and those extra long busses during rush hour. But gosh does it get bogged down waiting for lights to change on Franklin, Gough and Van Ness. Also: weekends, Muni. Do you know how over-crowded this bus line is on a given Saturday afternoon at 1pm? It's like Muni has no technology to make this bus faster, or run more frequently to take the hordes of people. read more

The "5" makes me believe I can run really fast. There has been many times I have ran for the this bus and made it. An avid bike rider, I have the delusion I am in amazing shape because of the many times I have caught this bus in the nick of time. I have felt a great sense of accomplishment just by catching this bus. I now realize the bus driver must wait for me. He/she/ze probably sees me in the bus mirror running down the sidewalk like a maniac and takes pity on me. Far be it for me to be contradictory, but I like the ballerinas. I find them delightful. They are the best part of the trip to work. I like their hair, the way they talk about things in weird teenage code, and their giggling. I also like that there is so many of them, like Peeps. I have never been a ballerina (I am abnormally clumsy and oddly shaped) so I really admire them even more. read more

Just a few things I've experienced on the 5: Hipsters discussing on top volume the details of Middle East public beheadings they watch on YouTube Drunk woman pinning an old lady up against the window because she cannot soberly hold herself up. Mind you, this is 7:30 a.m.... Watching a man devour an entire pack of Kraft American Singles in less than 3 minutes. Witnessing a thug spit in the face of a hipster. You ain't artsier than me, fool. I feel that the over-crowding has gotten worse since they installed the "Next Bus" tickers in the Western Addition stops. If you're heading downtown, the line is virtually empy before 7:30 am. After that, everyone starts to come out of their house. Also, outbound service ends around 6:30 pm, so I get stuck riding the dreaded 21 Hayes after an evening workout. read more

1st time taking this bus due to the new SFMTA site, the stupid new look doesn't state clearly which bus to which bus. So ended up taking the 28R thinking it was going to turn on Fulton, but it didn't. After getting here I see the bus stop and know the DMV is near Fulton. The only reason the rating wasn't lower was the driver actually announced a closer stop since I mentioned DMV. read more

Oh, #5Fulton/Transbay Terminal, and your fraternal twin #5 Fulton/Ocean Beach, what a complicated relationship we have. I depend on you twice a day, everyday, and sometimes, you're everything I want in public transportation. You show up less than three minutes after I get to the bus stop, you breeze past both Fillmore and Webster without stopping, and I get to my final destination in less than 10 minutes total. On those days, you're only half full, your driver actually gives me the nod (yeah, you know what I'm talking about) and waits for me to sit down before punching it through the stoplight, and there are no suspicious fluids on the seats. Unfortunately, you're fickle. At least 2/3 of the time, you're crowded and angry and covered with an thick layer of bum sweat and Flamin' Hot Cheetos dust and what I'm pretty sure is semen. And that's if you show up at all. Then again, for $45/month, can I really complain? I mean, I should have known you were cheap when we started this whole thing... read more

Slightly more reliable than the 24, the 5 takes me downtown, to the gym, my favorite bookstore and home. I like how I can usually plan on it coming within a 10-minute span. I must pick the right times to take it, too because it isn't as jam-packed as other buses. I remember taking it during the 9-5 towards downtown for a temp job and I wanted to stab myself in the eye. The bus was too damn full. During the summer, there is a ballet program downtown and you have to hear all of the gossip from the students. It's pure entertainment...and to others...perhaps annoying. read more

ah yes the good ol #5. I mjust say this bus is less noise when it goes past SFCH. Took this bus with a few friends from San Mateo county and I must say I liked it better because there no crowding willy nilly. It is a great bus on a street that is easy to follow no matter where you go. The crew on this bus is nicer because they are less pressured unlike the Chinatown lines. This bus can be super delay if you miss it. You do not need to worry so much when riding it for any reason. read more

Found myself riding the 5 a couple times after appointments at St Mary's. The first time, the first bus to go by was too full to attempt getting on, which would suck if you're trying to get to work in the morning. The second was still pretty full, but the driver helped me and my crutched self out and was doing an exemplary job of crowd control for a bus driver. He's the 4th star, for sure. My second trip was less crowded, and generally pleasant. Seems like a good line for getting out to the north side of Golden Gate Park, but morning bus rides in general have reminded me why I prefer BART. read more

I am confused about the oft-mentioned ballerinas. Are people hallucinating ballerinas on the 5? It's pretty clear drug use is happening here - I was on this bus for ten minutes today, and my hair has smelled like weed ever since. People openly smoking pot on the bus isn't an everyday occurrence. However, it does speak to the fact that this line is often too crowded for the driver to be paying much attention to the folks in the back. I have to stand about half the time on weekdays, whether it's 11 AM or 7 PM, and it's always crowded on weekends. This makes sense, given that it's a well-traveled route that doesn't run super-frequently. I don't know how often it's supposed to come, but I've seen predictions up to 20 minutes. On the upside, I have never seen a physical fight break out (hello, 22 Fillmore) or a large knife fall out of a person's pant leg (38 Geary). Nonetheless, I'd recommend trekking a few blocks down to the 21 Hayes if you can. read more

Yuck-o, I'd like to rename this bus "the Halitosis mobile" in honor of all the people with rotten morning breath on the way TO work (~8AM), and nasty "chicken & broccoli" breath on the way home FROM work (~6PM). Some really loud and obnoxious younger people (like between 12-16) play crappy music or talk on their phones a lot on this line. Also, people hover right over you so they are either breathing on your face or their backpacks, which have been sitting on god-knows-what public bathroom floor or pukey-poopy sidewalk, are brushing against you. "I loathe the bus" - especially this one. It's really frustrating in the morning, too, because with the increasing number of people taking public transportation, you'd think (hope) that they'd get more buses. Instead, most of the drivers are just packing more people on each bus. The 5 Fulton doesn't come often enough, either. 'nuff said. No, wait - one more thing I hate about this bus...all the young dance students in sweatpants, with the smelly ballet shoes in breathable knapsacks that they swing in your face if you're seated, chattering away like a pack of chipmunks. Ok, NOW I'm finished! read more

Now you've done it! Are you happy now? I purchased a parking pass I can't really afford so I could drive and park everyday at work....you suck! read more

My ride home from work on most days. For $2 I can't complain. A cab ride normally costs me at least $25 with tip from Downtown to Outer Richmond. I did wish there was an Express or Limited line for the 5 Fulton, but I guess you can't have everything. read more

With the recent service cuts, things just don't get much better. I would love to make myself a fan for this line. I love how it gets me straight to City Hall and literally across the street from it. I love how it takes me to places afar like Ocean Beach and all the way down to the Transbay Terminal. It has a great route with some rougher parts between Market/Powell and the Tenderloin area and again in the Fillmore section, but overall a great line that serves a lot of people. However, it is far from perfect and my experience with this line is that sometimes it doesn't come on time and when the buses do come, they come all at once. Most recently, a nice bus driver lady was trying to do the right thing and asked a group of passengers that walked onto the bus without paying to pay. They threw a fit with her and started cussing her out and calling her names. I've never seen people that angry who were clearly wrong themselves! There's a bit of drama sometimes on the MUNI 5, but then again, it isn't a MUNI if there isn't any drama. read more

You don't need to read further, here's the lowdown: Pro's: -It's an owl -It runs fairly on time -Most have the GPS so you can call next bus -If you're going outbound, crowded buses usually empty out by Fillmore -Cuts right through the middle of the city, great connecting bus for all purposes -Runs all the way to Ocean Beach and along the park -Good people ride this fucker Cons: -Overcrowded most of the time -A few real asshole operators -ballerinas -a lot of un-savvy tourists -Good chance of drunk confrontation between college age kids on a late weekend night -A little bit of sketchy area action going on in parts read more

This is the bus I take when I sell myself near the Civic Center. Although riding along the park is pretty, making thirty dollars for five minutes of work can't be beat... even when I'm doing it in an alley near the capital building. Unless something crazy is going on like Bay to Breakers, AIDS Walk or that Outside Lands festival that put more people in the Outer Richmond than I've seen in the past eight months, this bus is usually pretty chill. I can almost always get a seat and the bus drivers are a good balance of running yellow lights (which I love) and not starting the bus the moment you step inside (which my weak knees appreciate). It has some prime stopping points: the beach for serenity, the DeYoung Museum for inspiration, the Haight for weak drugs, the Western Addition for hardcore drugs, the Civic Center for festivals (or naked people at Pride), and the Financial District for watching tourists wait hours in line for 5 minutes in a cable car. read more

Dear 5 Fulton riders: You do not need to scream into your cell phone while holding it 5 inches from your face to tell your homies how crunked you got last night. Or yell at them out of the little window in the bus as you drive by. Thank you. read more

If you live in SOMA (or elsewhere near Market), and are heading to Superior Court (hopefully for work rather than someone having sued you) or to UC Hastings, the 5 is the way to go. Much more convenient than BART or walking, and far cheaper than a cab ride ($2 vs. $10-12). The 5 can definitely back up in the afternoon as you head home and you end up waiting for 15 minutes and then being greeted by 3 buses in a row, but overall it's a good ride. read more

Pretty sweet. It goes along Fulton from the Outer Richmond area and McAllister to Market (roughly) and then Downtown. The 5 comes frequently and only sometimes doesn't have room for you. I have seen some weird $#*! go down, but hey - it's a SF bus, just go along for the ride. read more

I will finally write a muni review. At least from what I've seen. Id have to say most drivers are pretty incompetent in some aspects. My review is mainly about muni drivers NOT making any announcements when the bus has stopped for whatever reason. People will usually have to go out and see why the bus has stopped and figure it out themselves. I sometimes now get on the bus at the front of the bus because there is more room. So one day the bus stopped for whatever reason and since I was at the front of the bus I heard the driver talking. The driver was literally talking like he was talking only to me and said the bus wont move. After that, he just said, well i guess nobody heard me. FOOL! Talk louder or use the intercom. Oh and for that time, another driver waiting for his shift got on the same bus and shouted to everybody that the bus wasn't going to move. I guess you need 2 people to make an announcement. Oh and today. Car accident, whole street blocked, and it seems passengers figured it out quickly by themselves. Again, no announcement. Is there a no announcement policy? read more

It is sorta hard to give public transit more than 3 starts, isn't it? I mean, by it's very nature you are going to have to put up some jerks along the way and people who smell like poo. So yeah, two stars off for just being what it is. That being said, I've been pleasantly surprised by how efficient this line runs. I never have to wait long for a bus to show up (of course, nextbus.org helps) and the drivers haul ass to get to the stops (which, by some standards may not be a good thing but I drive worse in my car so I'm good with this). This line has the ticker board up front and the automated announcement to tell you the upcoming stops, which is sort of a luxury when you realize not all lines have this and you are on a non-luxury line trying to peer around a zillion people on the bus to figure out where the hell you are and if your stop has passed already. Overall - it gets me where I'm going without ME having to deal with the hassles of parking, traffic and car payments. read more

8:20 on a weekday morning. McAllister and Divis. Nothing more fun than catching that 5 down to Civic Center station when it's elbows to assholes in the front of the bus, and three people with earbuds are zoned out in the back of the bus and refuse to move further back. It's truly tragicomic when I, in all of my scary-to-strangers 6'4" and 250 lbs, am more spatially conscientious than some 5'2" buck twenty-five girl who's the reason we're all jammed up front. It's worse when the bus driver won't do shit about it. It's intolerable when I miss my train, and therefore, the last shuttle to Brisbane, and I'm out $25 for cab fare to get to work. On the other hand, getting home from work at night is a dream...even if I wish the post-7pm service extended all the way to/from Transbay Terminal instead of dumping you in the middle of Sketch-a-tronia. I'll consider another star if they actually start running a 5 Express during commute hours. read more

My feelings are torn about the 5. One the one hand, it gets me to and from work pretty quickly and comes pretty often. But on the other hand, in the morning, at least one bus will be so full that it passes by my stop without letting anyone on. And the few times that three or four pass by, too full to let anyone on, I was ready to march over to Gavin Newsom's office and give him a piece of my mind. But, I would need the bus to get me there, so, that idea didn't work out. The 5 comes pretty frequently, but can be ridiculously crowded. Plan ahead! read more

Great bus route. Gets me from outside of school straight to a couple blocks from my house, while avoiding the TL and the unsavory characters that populate that part of town. It's a much faster ride than the 31. You can also take the 21 Hayes line (i think that's what it is). Never ridden it past Masonic, so you're on your own from there. read more

I got one word for this one: Public Transportation! Said that, there is a plenty of room for imagination. About # 5 in particular: it is pretty convenient ride despite it's coming through Western Addition (yick!) with those younksters and thugs. Overall, I can give a props to the drivers to actually stay cool. read more

The, five, the 18 and the 31 all great buses , if the other two are not running can always count on the 5 to get you home. Snaps to the lolly pop (dum dum ) bus lady driver too. Friendly staff. read more

the pros: - goes from downtown to ocean beach - is especially fast once it passes stanyan (going west). fulton street being the street that closest resembles a freeway in my humble opinion - runs all night the cons: - VERY crowded during peak hours. - gnarly passengers from time to time (mentally ill, obnoxious/loud, etc) - always end up waiting more than 10 minutes for it - the symphony/opera crowds make the bus packed to the gills at night - stops/starts in civic center instead of transbay terminal at night but like many other muni lines my life is so much better with the 5 fulton than without it. read more

After getting off BART, I went to McAllister and Market to wait for the 5 Fulton. NextMUNI told me that I would have to wait a mere four minutes for him, so of course I decided to pass on the 21, 6, and 71 that all went by immediately after my waiting began. Seven minutes later I thought, "Well, that's odd...where is Mister Cinco?" and ConfusedMUNI then informed me that it had just passed one minute prior. Several questions entered my mind, the most easily answered being "Was the bus an invisible bus?" and the most pressing being "What will the wait times be for the other buses?" Just to play it sane I assumed the answer to the first was a resounding "No," and went on to discover that the answer to the latter was a long f***ing time. As I stood there, I. A lady with four quarters wanted a dollar bill for them. She said it was for the bus. I explained that quarters work just fine for the bus. Her answer was either gibberish or extremely logically unsound. Two hipsters then rode by on their bikes, and that seemed to be a sign of the end of our conversation. II. A gaggle of strippers, squeezed back into their street clothes, strutted out of the strip club across the street from me. They were hideous. Men stared. I was confused. III. A lady walking by me did a double-take and asked me if people ever told me I look like Nicholas Cage. I said yes. She said her name was Skye. I said that was nice. She asked me if I wanted to go somewhere. I said no. She asked me what I was waiting for. I said the bus. She asked me if I could give her ten bucks because she was that amount shy of her rent. I told her no, as she took another sip of her can of PBR. She said it was nice to meet me. I told her to have a good night, having no idea what a "good night" meant in that particular context. IV. Two more hipsters rode by on their bikes. Mister Cinco finally came, and cometh he did in all his glory. There was an old lady sleeping quite soundly at the front, and I couldn't help but wonder how long she had been asleep for. There were the usual patrons of rabbel-rousers and former rabbel-rousers. Most of my attention, though, was on the conversation of the attractive mid-20s couple sitting across from me, in which she was trying to convince him that life wasn't all about clubbing and that he always expected her to do crazy things and how she wanted to not be hung over on Sundays so she could actually get work done. He seemed uninterested and thought it a better idea to discuss getting married. In Mexico. Because it's cheaper. Well played, good sir. Well played. I then pushed my way through two drunk girls at the back door, who underwent an inebriatingly delayed explosion of apologies after they realized they were blocking me, to emerge on the wonderfully welcoming sidewalk of my block. read more

I was on 5 Fulton today with Siberian Husky coming from USF one of the passengers was very rude saying my husky is to big he service dog I deserve to be treated with respect on the bus. I don't ride Fulton to often. I live by the Oracle Park. I just ignored the passenger. read more

Once upon a time, there was a MUNI route called the No.5. This bus took people from one end of the city to the other end so they could see the strange sights and sounds from crack addicts on Market to idiots burning school papers in a gesture of graduating from high school (another story for another time.) For a while it was great. It would take people from place to place on time and rather quickly. Aside from the puzzling fact that it would inadverdently stop at Sixth Avenue, it was good transportation for the car-less. Not the best, but sure beats walking. Sadly, with success came the dark angel of misfortune in the form of budget cuts. At this point the No.5 (and the rest of MUNI) began nose diving faster than a VW Beetle off a cliff. Eventually, service was cut so buses were few and far and between. Not so bad; you'll just adjust your waiting. But the ultimate doom came a few days ago when I, the mighty narrator, was going to go partake in theater. Leaving the house with my mighty Coin of Strength, I waited for the bus. And waited. And waited some more, until it finally pulled up. Alright! Unfortunately, evil was afoot and the bus stopped at Sixth Avenue, as foreshadowed earlier. Not to worry, as a bus came, but wait what? Another Sixth Avenue bus? Surely, they were joking! Then came another. And another. MADNESS! For them to treat a warrior (taking the bus sure feels like that some days) like this was very out of character. Finally, another bus came, but this time, it was going to Transbay Terminal! All was right with the world. Long and short of this is that it was an alright bus. It came and took you places, the end. The only thing that really sucked was how it randomly stopped at Sixth Avenue at times. Service cuts have not done it any favors, and thus, even after riding 5s since high school for the whopping 5-6 block journey (it stopped right outside my house and the 28 where I got off, so why walk?), I can only give it a three after it took nearly an hour-and-a-quarter to travel from the 20th and Fulton to City Hall (normally thirty-forty minutes) and nearly made me miss an important engagement. read more

I like the 5 and it's route. And it runs pretty late I believe.