Luxury bus is here to disrupt your S.F. commute

The interior of San Francisco's new Leap transit bus. The interior of San Francisco's new Leap transit bus. Photo: Leap/Courtesy Photo: Leap/Courtesy Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Luxury bus is here to disrupt your S.F. commute 1 / 4 Back to Gallery

Are you young, trendy and into pressed juices? If so, your luxury commuter bus has arrived.

Launched Wednesday, Leap is San Francisco's latest attempt to #disrupt transit. The bus is a tech buzz word dream. It's WiFi-enabled, USB outlet-equipped, Blue Bottle Coffee-serving, Bluetooth-check-in ready and GPS-trackable. Oh, and it has its own social networking component.

If you want to get to know your new bus friends, you can hop on Leap's app and read the profiles of the people who are on your bus. Hopefully unlike BART or Muni, their hobbies do not include intercourse with train cushions and public urination.

Rides cost $6 each (although there are pre-tax and bulk discounts available) and currently only run between Lombard St. and downtown. There are very few stops because speed is a priority, but Leap plans on adding more routes at a later date.

The bus itself is a twee fantasy, complete with unfinished wood interior and pressed juices for sale. Predictably but hilariously, there is no one who appears to be over the age of 35 in any of the publicity photos or video. Muni is for old people, obviously.

One cool feature of Leap is that you can see how many seats are available on the next bus. Although if Muni integrated this feature, it would probably tell you that there's a four-inch gap between a guy wearing his backpack and a woman shouting into her cell phone for the duration of your ride.

Private buses are hardly a popular proposition in San Francisco (see: Google bus), but Leap doesn't use existing Muni stops and there are only four buses on the streets (so far). However, it's likely only a matter of time before Leap bus protests begin so get your leaping puns ready now.