When your bus driver is having a bad day….

I felt sorry for my bus driver, she was having the worst day.  Here is what happened:

We had a full double bus going home on Thursday, I was listening to my iPod, reading a book when all of a sudden the people of the bus were all complaining.  What had happened was the bus forgot to take our exit off 520 onto I405, and we were now heading the wrong way.  I now know the fastest way to freak out a bus full of people, don’t exit the freeway when you should.  We got off on the next exit, took some back roads and got back on route down the I405.  (On the plus side, I learned a new back road around Redmond/Kirkland.)  Later, the poor driver forgot to stop when the bell was pulled and the people had to get off the bus through some small hedges.  And if that wasn’t enough, when we reached Woodinville, she announced to the bus that this was the last stop, well that freaked about 5 people out who were on the bus going to Duvall (the real last stop of the bus).  In the end, she missed one exit, one stop, and almost didn’t complete the route, it was not a good day for my bus driver…

 

Two Hours

Two hours, it took me two hours to get home on Friday on the 311.  Why, no reason, just traffic.  Traffic on I5, traffic on 520, then traffic on 405.  I have never seen so much traffic for no reason.  No accidents, no protests, no reasons for the pain in the butt Friday traffic.  The good news is if it hadn’t been for the HOV lanes it would have taken longer.  The bad news if I would have drove, I would have got out of the traffic and done something, anything to not be in traffic.  Thank god I had a thick book to read on the bus, if not… who knows.  This is two hours of my life I will not get back.

 

Chivalry is not dead!

So with my complaining about the bus system, I would like to give a kudos to the men who gave up their seats yesterday on the full 311 bus yesterday.  I would like to give you a big thank you and to say the chivalry is not dead in Seattle.

 

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Hello new world

Hello everyone, this is my first post.  Here is why I am doing this.  For some reason I recently have been having bad bus karma.  Let me tell you what happened this week on the bus…..Wednesday 2/13 I was on the bus, when it started smoking, yes you heard me right, smoking on I405 north.  Luckily we were close to one of the bus stops (a park and ride lot) and pulled over, we all had to get off the bus and then he took off, leaving all of us on the side of the road.  Here is was made me mad.  When we pulled over, another bus going to the same final location as ours (but takes a different slower route) was turning out of the park and ride lot.  He could have waited for us, but no, we were forced to wait for the next bus, making all of use late.  If we would have been able to transfer we might have been 5 minutes late rather then 25 minutes.  Grrrr.

 Thursday was no better.  Again there I was on the bus listening to music, watching the road when I noticed that our bus had taken the wrong exit off 520 onto South 405 rather then North.  So what was the first thing that came to my head “Crap I got on the wrong bus!” Now I started to think how was I going to get from Bellevue to my destination.  I knew there was a bus, but I had no idea where it came from or where this bus was going.  I never heard an announcement from the driver, and then I noticed that other people around me had the same confused look.  My second thought was the driver was going the wrong way, we all looked confused and bewildered, again no announcements where made over the speakers.  It was when we got off the freeway and then back on going North that I understood what was going on.  There was an accident on the 520 exit going North so we took a detour which did save us some time, but confused the heck out of everyone. 

 So twice in one week I was confused and left on the side of the road by the bus.  I am writing this blog to let other riders know they they are not alone and I too have had a bad bus day but will still ride the bus to work everyday.