Unhappy commuting
My wife called me about 6:00 tonight. “I’m at 10th and Roanoke,” she told me. “I gave up. The bus was taking about 15 minutes to move one block. Come pick me up.”
Hoo boy.
That broken water main and resulting sinkhole underneath the University Bridge will keep the bridge closed for at least two more days [Times, P-I] while they work on getting the shoreline reinforced and pulling out the trapped cars. It’s a non-trivial problem. The road underneath the bridge was tiny, narrow, and barely navigable even before it started eating cars.
Trying to cross at the Montlake Bridge is nearly as bad. Traffic on Montlake Boulevard was backed up a long way in both directions during rush hour today.
Moral: Telecommute. Or call in sick. Or hell, just walk to work. It’ll probably be faster.
I know I shouldn’t gloat, but it’s times like these that I’m glad I live close enough to work that I can bike there easily.
Yeah, there was no point busing across the bridge this afternoon. One look at the backup on Pacific and I was off on foot through the Arboretum. Still, I was really jealous of all the bikers zipping past me on the Montlake bridge.
i ended up walking home last night, too. Wasn’t too bad, actually.
I love bike to work month!
I don’t understand your wife’s request; how could you drive into a traffic jam to rescue somebody out of it? Assuming you could even get into the jam to where she’s at in a reasonable amount of time, won’t that simply leave both of you stuck?
I picked a great day to NOT bike to work yesterday….
On the other hand, an advantage to living here all my life is that I know all the side streets–only took me about 5 extra minutes getting from 15th on cap hill to 75 and roosevelt…
I have no qualms about gloating: it’s good to live close enough to your job to walk to work.
Drewvsea: The traffic on the north end of Capitol Hill was all on the arterial streets leading to I-5. As long as you stayed off of those roads, you were fine.