5:52 – Queen Anne bus leaves Bellevue Transit Center for the trip home. I guess their schedules were a bit optimistic in the face of real traffic. 520 has the usual afternoon 405-to-bridge jam.
6:00 – turns out the carpool lane is blocked at 108th due to an accident. The WSDOT site claims its a bus accident. Hope it’s not one of the shiny new MicroBuses!
6:02 – nope, it’s a Metro bus. We’re buy it and camped in the carpool lane. Behind another MicroBus (I guess the Capitol Hill one). Now we’re making time – actually 520 seems to be moving pretty good. Maybe moving all the Microsofties into these buses has lessened traffic for everybody else…
6:06 – on the bridge deck, we’re cruising! Just for kicks I ran speakeasy’s broadband connection speed test from the middle of the bridge. 710kbps down, 5kbps up. Seems pretty bursty though. Maybe everyone else on the bus is doing the same thing. From those numbers I would guess they have some RF downlink and a cell uplink. External IP is 70.1.88.37, have to see who owns that IP block.
6:12 – Crossing I-5 now, traffic is still really light.
6:18 – Passiing Seattle Center. You can tell we’re on Seattle roads again as everybody’s teeth start rattling. Didn’t Mayor Nichols run on a fix-the-potholes platform?
6:21 – Dropping Belltown softies at El Gaucho. The valet looks a little bewildered.
6:28 – KeyArena. Should be an challenging dropoff point if the Sonics ever play a game here again.
6:37 – long crawl up QA hill, but here we are, back at Safeway. A little more than an hour from when I left my office.
Anyway, that’s it for the first day of the MicroBus. Overall I think they did a great job, I would certainly consider doing it on a semi-regular basis.
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I was hoping that commute would be a bit shorter too. Not bad though since you can work. They need to get it up to North Ballard though… Go MicroBus!!!