A summary, in three parts:

1) My bus wasn’t running. Therefore, the city, or county, or somebody, should spend millions on a plan in case it snows like this again.

2) EXCLAMATION POINTS COUNT TOWARD MY WORD COUNT!!!

3) This snowstorm is EXACTLY like Katrina, and Nickels is EXACTLY like Bush. Think about it.

58 replies on “I Read Joel Connelly So You Don’t Have To”

  1. Hey Joel Connelly and others,

    Here’s the bottom line: busses can’t run in the snow. Period. You want a transportation system that works in the snow? Its called rail. You reactionary asses at the dailies have been second guessing rail transit for years, and now when the road based transit we have turns out to not work so well in the snow, you freak out and blame the city. You have only yourselves to blame.

  3. i think the highlight of the snowstorm was waiting for 2.5 hours @ pike & 2nd for a bus going anywhere near seatac airport on tuesday.

    there were women w/ babies and elderly people trying to catch a flight.

    several buses came by, mostly ones to issaquah and bellevue, carrying only one or two people. do we really need 6 articulated buses an hour to issaquah?!?

    in periods of inclement weather, metro needs to do a better job of keeping passengers waiting in subfreezing temperatures informed of where the next bus is. several drivers insisted they weren’t allowed to ask, which is asinine.

    and as taxis were charging $80+ and not allowing people to share, this only added to the collective disgust of the situation.

    when a viable bus to the airport did come, there were 3 within 3 minutes of each other. luckily, the aiporter was running and at $11 and zero weather-related delays, made for a great alternative.

  7. @48: Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only person who actually used Metro’s Adverse Weather page rather than just bitching about it. The link was right there, smack-dab in the middle of their home page, and it still is at the time of this posting. Maybe the updates lagged a little behind, but considering how much things were changing moment-to-moment, I still think they did a pretty good job.

    One thing that I noticed was that several riders seemed oblivious to their bus line’s adverse weather routes, even though they’re printed on every route map. Maybe people should start thinking about what they need to do for themselves during freak snowstorms, rather than just waiting for the city to hold their hands.

  8. If we had BUILT the Monorail Already it would have been running.

    Snow falls off the tracks.

    But, no, we had to listen to the whiny property developers who wanted to develop South Lake Union …

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