In the not so distant future, the beloved Metro Tunnel will be closed to allow full-time construction work related to making it fit for SoundTransit’s light rail vehicles. When this happens, all of your favorite bus routes will probably be in different places and downtown traffic will be a whole new animal. To help deal with tunnel withdrawal, a friendly Metro driver has some words of advice:

21 additional bus routes will now have to run on surface streets. Most routes will be moved to 3rd Avenue. How do we make room for all these extra buses? We close 3rd Avenue!
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Everything you know about the buses downtown will probably be wrong. [lj]

The list continues with several handy tips and words of wisdom. And, like most posts to the Seattle Livejournal commuinty, hilarity ensues in the comments section.

related:

• official guidance on the tunnel closure [metrokc.gov]