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I had a very different experience relaying on the buses, bicycle, and light rail as my primary transportation within Seattle. Seattle has very limited East/West
by gtop3 4y ago
I had a very different experience relaying on the buses, bicycle, and light rail as my primary transportation within Seattle. Seattle has very limited East/West travel options, but that is mostly because of geographic concerns. If you want to travel North/South it's much easier.
The dedicated bus lanes and app to tell you estimated arrival time based on location data were particularly good touches. I would consider Seattle bus system to be among the best in the states.
Edit: IMO the key to easy commuting in Seattle is to plan your life in a way that you minimize the number of times you have to cross a lake, canal, or bay.
- re-thc 4y agoIf you have to add so many constraints it means it doesn't work.
- jwestbury 4y agoI lived in Ballard for five years. If I drove to and from the office, even at rush hour, it was probably a 30-minute commute. It was 45-60 minutes by bus most days, and far less comfortable, because route 40 is one of the busiest on the network (or was at the time), and would often get stuck in traffic. This is despite every-7-minute service and dedicated bus lanes. Seattle might have some of the best bus service in the US, but bus transit is objectively worse than rail transit on a separated grade. (And on this point, one of Sound Transit's worst decisions was building at-grade light rail, which essentially turns Link into a streetcar for substantial portions of its route.)