Tag: velo bus driver

January 9, 2014

Nearly all Sound Transit buses will soon be able to carry 3 bikes instead of 2

Sound Transit operates many popular regional express bus routes connecting major employment and residential centers quickly and easily. But, as express routes, getting from your home or workplace to the bus stop or transit center is often the most difficult part. Taking a slow local bus, then waiting to transfer is one way to get…
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tagged: bike/bus combo, king county metro, sound transit, sportworks, velo bus driver
December 2, 2013

Woman spots her stolen bike on front of a Metro bus, gets it back

Beth Gunn returned home from vacation to discover something devastating: Her bike was no longer in the bike parking area of her Queen Anne apartment building where she left it locked up. “That’s my car, that’s how I get around,” she said over coffee recently. “I don’t have money for a new one.” Frustrated and…
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tagged: beth gunn, bike thefts, king county metro, queen anne, velo bus driver
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
July 27, 2010

On other blogs: Biking the coast in 1909

A quick roundup of interesting stuff from around the city. Go Means Go has a book review of “Two Wheels North” by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, the story of two boys who rode their bikes from Santa Rosa to Seattle for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. From the review: On their best day they traveled 64 miles, over…
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tagged: blog roundup, car free days, evelyn mcdaniel gibb, go means go, publicola, seattle transit blog, velo bus driver