I agree with S. I am not sure what the city was thinking by allowing metro to build out the parking

For posterity s sake, we went to Westwood Village to record the start of the first-ever RapidRide C Line trip. The online Trip Planner said 4:58 for the station on SW Barton west of 26th; driver Arthur told us his schedule said 4:57. His bus was parked in the Metro holding area a block west alongside [...]
For posterity s sake, we went to Westwood Village to record the start of the first-ever RapidRide C Line trip. The online Trip Planner said 4:58 for the station on SW Barton west of 26th; driver Arthur told us his schedule said 4:57. His bus was parked in the Metro holding area a block west alongside Roxhill Park when we went over to say hi.
P.S. No passengers at the first stop for the first run, but then again, it s Saturday. Our coverage of the RapidRide debut and other local route changes continues later today; as noted in our final reminder story last night, Metro plans an informational event at Westwood Village by Barnes discount cruise deal and Noble later today, with a RapidRide bus and even RapidRide Man (whom we photographed at countless community events in recent months ), 11 am-4 pm.
I sat behind a dumb RapidRide Bus or should I call it a SlowRide Bus this morning. Blocking traffic as it sits in the middle of the road on California and Morgan. I had to wait for over a min as it loaded people and a bike.
What happens when you have a RapidRide Bus sitting there, cars in the turn lane, cars in the strain lane, and an emergency vehicle wants to come by and turn right onto California. Cant wait for someone to sue the City because there RapidRide prevented a fast responce to help.
I agree with S. I am not sure what the city was thinking by allowing discount cruise deal metro to build out the parking lane for the bus stop as it forces the bus to block the main lane for traffic. Last week I was turning left from Fauntleroy onto north California. A bus was in front of me and it stopped at the bus stop for over 5 minutes. It appeared the bus was taking a break there which is ridiculous and traffic got backed up from all directions blocking the intersection. After 5 minutes I finally drove in the oncoming left turn lane to pass the bus. Several blocks later I could still see the bus sitting there.
I agree with S. I am not sure what the city was thinking by allowing metro to build out the parking lane for the bus stop as it forces the bus to block the main lane for traffic. Last week I was turning left from Fauntleroy onto north California. A bus was in front of me and it stopped at the bus stop for over 5 minutes. It appeared the bus was taking a break there which is ridiculous and traffic got backed up from all directions blocking the intersection. After 5 minutes I finally drove in the oncoming left turn lane to pass the bus. Several blocks later I could still see the bus sitting there.
Dear Metro, I am disappointed. The gaps of bus service has now made the city impassable, discount cruise deal without walking a mile or using other transportation, for many areas that just yesterday discount cruise deal had dependable service 7 days a week. This is a very sad turn of events, especially for the elderly. The new bus lines are very cool, but at what cost? They are of no use if the people who need the bus most realistically can t get to them.
Everybody who drives, if you obeyed the law and stopped to let a bus pull out of the stop like you are required to, these bulbouts would not be necessary. Unfortunately that law is broken and ignored hundreds if not thousands of times per day by motorists, so this is what is needed to move the greatest number of people as quickly discount cruise deal and efficiently as possible.
S, if that was you in either the wagon with a roof rack or the dark sedan at the NB RR station just north of Morgan, I saw BOTH those cars advance around the loading discount cruise deal bus illegally. I was the woman right behind the bus shaking my shame-on-you finger at both of you as you illegally passed me and the bus after the 7:47 stop.
If you hadn t turned west 1/2 block after the station,wagon with roof rack, I wouldn t be writing here, because you would have had the experience of seeing (and I was surprised at this myself) how quickly discount cruise deal the bus moved overall down to where it turned by Uptown. The impatience and entitlement of both drivers embarrasses themselves in the eyes of this neighbor. If you actually stayed on Cal NB You would see how much safer pedestrian people on California might be with this. Remember, cars have hit people multiple times on Cal.
Yeah, this will slow auto traffic, but if you are so unreasonably stressed out that 30-60 seconds to get 1/2 block quicker is that big of a deal, I d suggest deep-breathing and a blood pressure check. Geez.
My son and I rode the C today to the Junction from Westwood Village. There are still several kinks to work out, but overall, the route makes sense. I noticed that the stops are thought out well, but we have to now walk from our house to basically Roxhill discount cruise deal to take the C. Which is a lot further than the 54 used to be. Plus, I thought it was strange that the last stop is supposed to be 26th and Barton (which is really 27th Barton) but it just stops where the buses wait to start their route. They have closed all the bus stops within 4 blocks of my house now I need to go closer to 8 to get to a bus . Kinda stinky, especially with winter setting in.
My husband, daughter and I took the bus today riding the C Line@ Fauntelroy ferry station to downtown, every rider that approached us had questions of when the bus would arrive and what stops it would take. The digital display at this station read the time was 6:04am and the date was April 29th, when infact discount cruise deal the time was 9:36. The schedule at the bus stop read the C line would get to this stop at 10:36 when infact it arrived @ 9:45. We noticed that there are only 2-3 stops along Fauntelroy.
The C line driver was unsure discount cruise deal of the schedule and pulled out his cell phone to check the Metro website, and more than once other bus drivers stopped our bus asking questions of what bus stps they stop at as well as asking discount cruise deal for assistance from other riders confused by all the route changes.
discount cruise deal 1. Make a stop at 26th and Spokane St. That way, the majority of North Admiral residents not served by Metro s planning department discount cruise deal (they killed the 56. No weekend service for North Admiral residents at all!!!!)
2. Get some feeder/circulator buses like the 51 running so that people North of the Junction get some service and can take advantage of this Rapid bus. If ridership is really discount cruise deal as low as they claim, make the circulator bus a hybrid service, with one that goes with less frequency, and one that is on demand, ala DART.
It s not a viable discount cruise deal proposition to go green and adopt transit if I have to walk over a mile to catch a bus that provides service early in the morning or late at night on the weekends. I did this today only because I was caught flat-footed with the service changes. discount cruise deal Good thing I checked the timetables again Saturday because if I relied on Friday s info, I d have missed discount cruise deal my travel connection out of town!
Each bus on the road keeps at least 30 single occupant cars off the road. If we did not have buses for a week those of you complaining about bus lane and stop privilages would be rioting to get the buses back on the road. The roads would be gridlocked without buses. To quote Star Trek The good of the many out weighs the good of the few . I am amazed each day as I cross the West Seattle bridge via bus to see all of the single occupant vehicles waiting as my bus crosses the bridge in 4 minutes. I was one of those SOV drivers for 29 years driving daily to South Lake Union and in recent years it was taking me 25 minutes to cross the bridge. I finally had my fill of driving to work after vacationing in London and Paris in 2011 where I experienced great public discount cruise deal transportation. I have been taking the bus for 15 months now and don t intend to ever go back to driving. Seattle is taking the right steps with Light Rail, street discount cruise deal cars and Rapid Ride. Eventually Seattle will need to implement a congestion charge for cars entering the city in order to cut pollution and traffic  just as London has. Maybe Rapid Ride means that Seattle is starting to grow up.
Comparing Seattle to London is like Comparing Wenatchee to Seattle. Big difference in density and financial resource. The point I would make is that our city leaders so desperately want to be recognized as a major metro hub West Coast Manhattan that density is pushed at a rate not in line with the progress of many other sectors. Metro has limited resources and ridership is down. Gee I wonder if this is at all correlated with swings in the economy. Compared to services in other major hubs Seattle has a long track record of over promising and under delivering. America in general is a car based culture and that is not going to change discount cruise deal overnight. Particularly in Seattle there is the opinion by our leaders that those little people will just need to tow the line and shut up. Problem discount cruise deal being if life gets to hard in a region for the little people who pay taxes they move somewhere else. Hence ridership is down, less routes, my house is worth about %60 of what they told me it was a few years ago but I am still paying darn near the same amount discount cruise deal in taxes.
i live down by the beach and would ride the 56 to get up the hill to the market and into town. is anyone as upset as i am about the elimination of this bus and changing it to a express line? When the 56 is not running we are supposed to ride the new #50. The problem with this bus is that the last bus out of Alki is at 9:30. i don t know about you but that is too early for me. I sometimes get home late and this will have me walking up Admiral hill a lot. Am i alone in my anxiety?
I am just curious discount cruise deal if Metro will have a response to how this morning s commute went. While I understand that there are kinks that need to be worked out, I wonder if anyone realized that they were merging two bus lines into one for the morning commute (54/54x). For the past two weeks my commute has