MUNI Station – Forest Hill

Heart of the City.
At the least, it’s a central station for many residents of our fare City. It bridges so many neighborhoods that you can’t fathom the impact of life without this. It was my daily stop to and from my high school. And, prior to BART, it was the only way for many to travel to Glen Park, Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Miraloma Park, St. Francis Woods, and obviously Forest Hill neighborhoods. It bridges downtown to these places besides providing access to many other destinations throughout the City.
These days, the demographic has changed but it continues to provide a convenient and useful shelter especially during the autumn and winter months.
Yes, I’m a fan, though I’m driving more these days.

Typical subway station for a murder. Going down to the MUNI is no problem but coming up the stairs is one hell of a workout. I would consider it my cardio for the day if I ran up the entire thing cause its maaaaaaad long. The lights are also dim and with nothing around the station, a shady place brings shady people.
You can catch the 44, 43, 36, and 52 from here.

Apparently this is the oldest subway station in SF. It’s also guaranteed to make you feel like you’re starring in a Stephen King movie.
This station might have more stairs than the Winchester Mystery House. The 15 foot hallways and the fact that it feels like Jason is waiting for you around the corner is a little creepy. I use the stairs to see how many I can skip as I’m running up them every night… elevators are for lazy people.
Forest Hill Station is almost never busy and extremely quiet. For the most part the trains are generally all on time and in sync with the MUNI app.
However, this place’s creepy level hits a peak around 9 p.m. It’s across the street from a hospital where I can only assume the movie Halloween II was filmed. For reasons unknown to me, a few crazies make their way up to Forest Hill around this time every night. I guess they enjoy the atmosphere. I stay inside while I wait for the bus to finish my commute home. I also wear a hood and talk to myself so they think I’m one of them.

For what it’s worth, muni kicks the bootay of the public transportation of pretty much every other major city in the USA.
Not going to comment on Europe or Asia since I’ve never been but the only other actual good system I’ve seen is the NYC subways which will get you pretty much anywhere.
But hey, muni comes every couple of minutes on most lines instead of every hour or so outside of the city… Ahh to be young again and trying to go to water world.

NEW PAINT! Its like a brand new station!
Seriously, this station is quiet and there are no homeless that sleep here. It’s also clean, so what is there to complain about?
Safe
Quiet
Clean

This station feels just a little bit too quiet and empty… like it’s part of some abandoned town and there’s a big thunderstorm outside. I guess it’s really not that bad, but maybe it’s the tiling on the walls or the feeling like you’re entering a cave, I would prefer some of the other more lively MUNI stations. Anyway, it gets me where I need to go and all the trains come by here so it’s fairly convenient!

Convenient

Entry/​exit to the Twin Peaks/​Market St Tunnel
Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center is nearby
A great transfer point between Muni Metro K/​T, L, M, 36, 43, 44 and 52
This station is quieter and cleaner compared to Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero Stations

I love this station. It’s the Muni Metro station that reminds me of one of the various stations that the 1 Train in NYC used to pass by from downtown on the way to Columbia U. I took the 1 Train sometimes when I used to visit my sister over there. Seeing the blue tiles against the while paint of the walls in the Forest Hill station is like taking a step into an NYC subway stop complete with that, dank, gritty, funky «subway» smell.

As far as MUNI stations go this one is pretty good. I generally only come at night between 9 and 12. It is always really quiet and it doesn’t smell foul. I am not saying that it smells good but it definitely smells better than the Muni stations downtown. It has a general lack of amenities and there are a ton of stairs to get in or out. I haven’t seen any shady characters lurking about (which is always a plus).
I guess I really enjoy the quiet but the bad cell phone reception is upsetting.

Probably one of the smallest metro stations but I kinda like I that way. It’s actually one of the cleanest stations because not many people use his station. People say this place is creepy but just use it during the daytime and it will seem like he safest station actually.
Trains do come often except that it’s mostly the M and the L which suits me perfectly. :)
Other lines here are the 52 and the 44. Really nice lines as well

As said before, no one comes to Forest Hill for anything. Only if you need to catch a bus here, really. In high school, I spent quite of my time here as the bus that takes me home stops in front. Though there are alternative ways to get home, I only end up at Forest Hill if I took the metro from my old high school to here.
It’s actually quite creepy and I don’t mind walking the stairs (I take stairs whenever there is one) but Forest Hill possibly has the most stairs and the sight isn’t clear, who knows. someone can be at the corner of the stairs waiting for you to come down to mug your or do something possibly scary. For that, I always take the elevators. But even at the elevators, they’re huge and it’s kind of scary if you enter the elevator with someone that looks suspicious. All I have to say is, stay calm. Nothing bad ever really happens at Forest Hill. they just need to remodel the station or something.
I’d say that Forest Hill is my favorite station only because I spent more time at this station than any station, even more than West Portal.

I guess I love Forest Hill station for the reason that other people hate it. I know that it has a certain aroma, but it’s not like it’s hobo piss. I’m one of those that likes the smell of Pine Sol and Sharpies, and the smell of Forest Hill is just another one of those odd scents that comforts me.
ALSO, I’ve never been into a bathroom in as public of an area as this. By this, I mean I’ve never been into a bathroom that has free access to hobos and the seedier individuals of the city. But there was just this one day that I HAD TO, I couldn’t hold it. In retrospect, my thoughts at the time would make peeing on the lawn outside more appealing, but I went into that bathroom and it wasn’t as bad as I thought.
Still, while taking a piss I couldn’t help but think about how many lines were snorted in here, how many rendezvous (whether intentional or… not) happened here, how many… don’t even wanna know.

Creepiest Muni Station out of all the muni stations. Looks like some murders catacomb, dead bodies should be reaching out from the walls. There’s no doubt in my mind that this place could be haunted by ghosts. And of course those ghosts will have all gotten there by falling down those ridiculos stairs. OMG. I die.
Don’t get me wrong this is a fine Muni Station, you get a few trains that come through here but sometimes it can seem like a real dead zone. Def gives me the heeby jeebies to be down there waiting alone.
Oh and make sure you dont die trying to cross the street when you get to the surface, I’ve had some near misses and seen even nearer misses of people dashing to catch a 43 or 44, be careful out the muni brothers and sisters!

Only my most favoritest muni station stop. it is pure golden silent and dead. Nobody really has a legit reason to get off here unless they’re going to juviehall.
it’s a bit creepy when you’re alone, but it’s better than crowded stations like Powell. sometimes I ride any bus to get off here and then wait for my bus to come. or else I would never get to come here for some me time.

I love this station.
The exterior is beautiful, a lot of history here. A genuine subway station. Makes me feel like I’m in New York. Well, not really, but kind of. I love being on the trains while in the Twin Peaks Tunnel.
I wish they didn’t add the KLMT signs on the outside of it though. That took away from it a bit. A little bit of consistency wouldn’t hurt either — Forest Hill? Or Laguna Honda?
I go to this station to get a surge of adrenaline while in the elevator. Who knows how old that thing is.

This station looks like a bathtub, or some kind of fancy swimming pool. I imagine this is the sort of subway that a mermaid might use for her commute to the coral reef.
And if you’re standing around, waiting for a crowded, smelly train, don’t you want your wait to be as pretty as possible?

I imagine that if a fleet of conventional carpet-​bombing aircraft were to descend on the southern residential neighborhoods of San Francisco, this is the place were its residents would seek refuge. The tunnel is so far beneath the ground, surely the deepest in all of SF (ala London Tube).
Now change those conventional aircraft to nuclear bomb aircraft — well I’m not so sure I’d want to go here to kiss my a** goodbye — b/​c it smells bad, it’s musty, and filthy. The building is actually pretty cool, MUNI could do the citizens who use it a favor by spiffing it up. Maybe in another 50 years it will be declared a historical location and «preserved».

This is the oldest subway station in the city, attached to the longest tunnel. When the Twin Peaks tunnel was created, it held the title of longest tunnel in the world, for a little while. Back in those days all the streetcars traveled the surface of Market Street, then went subterranean on the east side of Twin Peaks (those spooky looking abandoned exits that you see on the K, L, or M right near Castro Station).
The station is a lovely building to see, but not very well maintained. Shame on Muni for not keeping it up better. But I still love it.

Yes, it’s a smelly muni station, but it’s *my* smelly muni station, so this round of bonus stars is on me.
It’s always weird to take the Muni home after a long day spent downtown. You get out here and you see all the trees and the cottage-​y houses, and it almost feels like you’ve come to the country-​side, compared with the concrete jungle you just left. An über-​dense countryside, yes, but still. It always reaffirms my sense of belonging out here on the west side.
Plus, this Muni is cool for having the longest staircase of any Muni or even BART station that I know of. Able-​bodied people who take the elevator here are wimps (unless you have luggage, then it’s ok).