How Seattle keeps the buses running. (I took this 1/18/12 on Capitol Hill)
Posted Jan 19, 2012, 1:18 AM UTC
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That is just AWESOME.
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No, AWFUL.
That is really, really dangerous.
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Any chance it can be both awesome and awful at the same time?
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I learned this not too long ago: apparently at one time, Awesome meant the same thing as Awful: awe-inspiring in its terrible-ness. Somehow, gradually, the meaning of Awesome transformed into "awe-inspiring" in general.
But getting back to your question, I think of it like two words battling it out for supremacy, and Awful definitely wins over Awesome, in this particular case. It's an Awful thing to see.
On Ice Road Truckers, with no other humans for 500 miles, it would be Awesome. On a crowded city street, it's just awful. Stupid, crazy, a tragedy waiting to happen.
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Bus: WHEEEEEEEEEEE!
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nope nope nothing to see here, just a truck pushing a bus up the street (at what appears to be a pretty good speed), nothing to see here residents
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I love the two guys on the left that come running out from the garage. I chatted with them for a few minutes and one guy was pretty offended for some reason. He kept saying, "That's not the way to do it; it's all wrong."
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well, it kinda is all wrong..
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You have a good point. Damn you.
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Going a little fast in snow I would say. Especially considering they weigh eleventy tons.
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Too bad in Lake City/Bothell they just did not have any buses. I wanted for an hour for the 75 and eventually just went back home.
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Snow routes, did you check them?
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The 75 is not running on the snow route that is online according to my coworker. Snow route says it's takingb125th but the route the drivers were given has them taking 115th.
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According to KC Metro, all routes were operating on snow routes today. http://metro.kingcounty.gov/up/rr/adverseweather.html
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Right, but the snow routes online are not always the same as the ones printed out and given to drivers. The 75 was following an alternate route not available online. So was the 65 in sand point.
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Yea, it was a crowded bus stop too, everybody was getting very frustrated.
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Did that look slightly accelerated to anyone else?
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There might be frame jitter on account of my phone, but I promise I haven't edited the video in any way.
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Ok. The insanity is full-throttle then.
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Hahaha.
I don't normally ride trolly buses but aren't those things pretty much not reliable at all in snow? Why do they bother even bringing them out during bad weather like this?
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They don't have enough diesel buses to meet demand unless they do, is what I always thought and heard.
Only the short diesel buses work ok in snow, except on super well plowed routes and roads(ie: 358, 7). So I don't always understand their logic...
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Ah, okay that makes sense.
Well I guess pushing the bus up a hill like that will also work instead of just not having any buses at all. I hope the drivers got some decent OT out of all of this.
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Did they keep making all the stops?
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There is no way this could possibly go wrong.
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LoL
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I passed by 3 broken down buses on my commute from Tukwila to Federal Way. The streets are a skating rink right now.
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As two wise gentlemen once said, "Brilliant!"
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That is insane and super dangerous.
The truck driver applies the drive power but cannot see the road ahead. The bus driver can see obstacles or approaching danger, but cannot turn off the drive power.
Really, really dangerous and dumb. If one car becomes disabled in a cross-street, the car driver will be dead. If one kid slips and falls, he's dead.
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I could see that going wrong very easily.