Tag: buses

May 14, 2012

Reminder: People with bikes ride buses free all week

From now through Friday, you can ride any King County Metro-operated bus for free. All you need is a bicycle. Here are the details, from Metro: As part of Bike Month, King County Metro and Sound Transit are encouraging people to try bike-and-bus trips. During the week of May 14-18, any cyclist loading a bike on…
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tagged: bike/bus combo, buses, king county metro
August 12, 2011

Letter to the King County Council: Save Metro buses for the sake of bicycling

UPDATE: It would appear this letter was soooo persuasive, the King County Council announced they would pass the $20 charge within an hour and a half of this post…. Good work everyone who battled to get this done without going to the ballot. Now, let’s concentrate on getting Seattle’s Transportation Benefits Fee passed. Buses. They…
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tagged: buses, king county council, king county metro
March 18, 2011

It’s International Bus Driver Appreciation Day!

Today, we salute the people who get behind the wheel every day — rain, shine or snow — to move vast numbers of our city’s population around. Every packed bus is a traffic jam removed from the streets, but the whole system depends on the daily work and patience of bus drivers. From Seattle Transit…
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tagged: bus driver appreciation day, buses
January 26, 2011

VeloBusDriver talks buses and bikes in Slate

Tom Vanderbilt interviewed everybody’s favorite bike-riding, blogging bus driver for an article in Slate. King County’s very own VeloBusDriver lends his valuable perspective, as both bus driver and bike rider, to Slate readers and talks about the stresses of the bus-driving life: Given this litany of challenges and poor outcomes, I was curious to talk…
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tagged: buses, slate, tom vanderbilt, velo bus driver
November 15, 2010

Bike Collision Roundup: Bus runs biker off the road in Ravenna

Now, for a downer of a post. These tales were self-reported to BikeWise.org. First, one on Nov 12 involving a bus on Ravenna at Brooklyn: At this location, there is an entire left lane dedicated to cyclists, the right lane for motor vehicles. I was riding down the left lane next to a King County…
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tagged: 2nd ave, buses, wrecks
July 29, 2010

Roosevelt redesign between 75th and 85th on hold until 2011 – UPDATED

Originally published yesterday at 4:15, updated with a comment by Velo Bus Driver, who drives the 77 through this spot. View Larger Map The somewhat controversial proposed removal of parking on one side of a ten-block stretch of Roosevelt between 75th and 85th has been put on hold until 2011. The project will move forward…
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tagged: bike lanes, buses, king county metro, roosevelt, sdot