Photos: the moods of San Francisco bus stops thorughout the day

San Francisco has about 3,000 bus stops. A good number are built-out with benches covered by trademark undulating, red roofs — locally designed, and meant to evoke “a seismic shock wave,” the surf, or perhaps the Muni logo.

Others have been recently outfitted with wooden benches by a guerrilla outfit that the city, for the most part, appears to tolerate; it counts 26 benches in the city, so far. Many more are just marked by yellow paint on a street pole.

Mission Local visited several bus stops in the city at different times of the day — during the morning rush hour, the end-of-day commute, and later at night. We saw crowds grow and thin, city workers power wash sidewalks, and some stops that stayed mostly empty all day.

Mission and Geneva St.

Mission and Persia St.

O’Farrell and Larkin St.

O’Farrell and Leavenworth St.

O’Farrell and Taylor St.

Ninth and Judah St.

Ninth and Irving St.

Geary and Park Presidio St.

Mission and 24th St.

Mission and 16th St.

Third and Palou St.