I love riding the bus, really
Due to the closure of the downtown transit tunnel for “retrofitting,” the buses that drive along 3rd (including, by the way, almost every bus that I have occasion to ride) are stopping at every other stop. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it? So we have to walk an extra block now and then … I can live with that.
But here’s the thing: I don’t have enough fingers to count the times in recent memory that I’ve missed my bus by 15 seconds, done in by walking that one extra block and waiting for that one extra light to change. Transit gods, why hast thou forsaken me? Should I make you an offering of some kind? Burn a pile of transfers in the back of the bus? Shove something delicious in the fare box? Sing a song at the bus stop? What?
Maybe you should try leaving your office/cube farm a little earlier? Just thought.
Ha! And a very good thought, too, except that I never miss the buses I’m specifically aiming for. Disappointment happens when I arrive on 3rd — on foot after shopping, via another bus, whatever — and look around for a bus that’s going my way … only to see it driving away.
On Third Avenue during commute times you can actually WALK to the next stop faster than the buses can drive there.
buses have always stopped at every other stop downtown.
Not trying to fan the flames of a bus fight here, but local buses down third avenue DO IN FACT STOP HALF AS MUCH since the tunnel closure.
the SUBURBAN buses have always stopped at every other downtown.
The powers that be have made riding the bus in seattle hell! And some of the riders aint helping – please read my new blog at
http://jcd5648.blogspot.com/
It is called “Tossing Cookies: Riding Public Transporation in Seattle”
Share your adventures and concerns – I will be sending it to Metro, Sound and Community Transit each week – of course, I expect nothing from any of them!