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solarbirdCommunity Transit has now pooched me THREE TIMES IN A ROW, which is now officially enemy action. Times two and three today came without riding a single community transit bus, NOT THAT THIS WAS THE PLAN. The PLAN involved riding TWO Community Transit busses; the plan did NOT include walking from Main Street in Bothell to Country Village in SnoHOmish County along 527, and the plan did NOT include walking back to KENMORE from said Country Village in said SnoHOmish County. However, Community Transit apparently had other ideas.
Now, admittedly, I could have waited for the THEORETICAL next bus in each case, and been there 15 minutes or so late (going) and taken LONGER to get back than just hoofing it (coming back), but that would involve RELYING ON COMMUNITY TRANSIT.
(That's 5.6 miles of hoofing it with instruments, music, and etc, for the record.)
In more directly relevant news, today was pretty good money-wise for Country Market; crowd seemed pretty normal but I got more monex than usual, so yay. And a photographer took a couple of dozen pics of me for the Kenmore Reporter/Bothell Reporter (and got my name), so I may have chibi media coverage in the weekly newspaper. Oooooooooooo.
Oh, the other route getting there (up 88th Avenue NE/7th Avenue SE) is much better for biking than 527, but, paradoxically, is actually a little worse than 527 for walking, because the bad spots on 527 have off-road options the other route does not - but only for walkers. Bikes could not do them. (They involve walking on retaining walls hidden behind guardrails and stuff.) And for walkers, the other route has very large sections of no paved shoulder and shockingly little grass shoulder; basically, a lot of the road is right up against a drainage ditch. So there's less traffic, but what traffic there is comes much closer to you and you don't have much of anywhere to go.
If you're on a bike and as such have lane rights, tho', it's clearly preferable. And now all you lot know.
(The terrible secret of Community Transit, btw, appears to be that it regularly runs early at the ends of the 120/121 routes, mid-day. NOT HELPFUL.)
Now, admittedly, I could have waited for the THEORETICAL next bus in each case, and been there 15 minutes or so late (going) and taken LONGER to get back than just hoofing it (coming back), but that would involve RELYING ON COMMUNITY TRANSIT.
(That's 5.6 miles of hoofing it with instruments, music, and etc, for the record.)
In more directly relevant news, today was pretty good money-wise for Country Market; crowd seemed pretty normal but I got more monex than usual, so yay. And a photographer took a couple of dozen pics of me for the Kenmore Reporter/Bothell Reporter (and got my name), so I may have chibi media coverage in the weekly newspaper. Oooooooooooo.
Oh, the other route getting there (up 88th Avenue NE/7th Avenue SE) is much better for biking than 527, but, paradoxically, is actually a little worse than 527 for walking, because the bad spots on 527 have off-road options the other route does not - but only for walkers. Bikes could not do them. (They involve walking on retaining walls hidden behind guardrails and stuff.) And for walkers, the other route has very large sections of no paved shoulder and shockingly little grass shoulder; basically, a lot of the road is right up against a drainage ditch. So there's less traffic, but what traffic there is comes much closer to you and you don't have much of anywhere to go.
If you're on a bike and as such have lane rights, tho', it's clearly preferable. And now all you lot know.
(The terrible secret of Community Transit, btw, appears to be that it regularly runs early at the ends of the 120/121 routes, mid-day. NOT HELPFUL.)
