Comments on: SR-520 HOV lane designed by anti-transit conspirators

By: Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » 520 Transit lanes NOT designed by anti-transit conspirators

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:09:18 +0000

[...] Turns out I was wrong. I’d previously referred to the “right-hand-side-of-the-road” HOV lanes on SR-520 as having been designed by anti-transit conspirators. [...]

By: Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » We so desperately need rail transit here in Seattle

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:48:23 +0000

[...] And that doesn’t even take the daily commute benefits of rail (overcoming traffic caused by traffic, not by bad weather) into consideration. Grade separated rail that can avoid the terrible HOV lanes on 520. Grade separated rail that can be FASTER and MORE RELIABLE than driving myself to work. I’d take that 5 days/week. [...]

By: Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » More Bus Adventures

Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » More Bus Adventures — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:14:53 +0000

[...] But not yesterday… yesterday I had a seat and I was glad to have a bus-driver who drives the thing like a taxi. Everything but up-on-the-grass to go around stupid drivers who stopped in the defective 520 HOV lane while trying to merge in, etc. Good stuff! Excepting the 20+ minute slow start, we made it into the city even faster than we’d have made it on a lot of typical high-traffic days! Sweet! [...]

By: Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » I’ll call it “Lousy Busride Tuesday”

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:56:15 +0000

[...] The ride on 520 was garbage since the HOV lanes were stop and go the whole way. But eventually we got to Montlake. By this time it’d taken about 50 minutes to go the (according to Streets and Trips) 10.2 mile trip. [...]

By: Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » Some bus drivers are not very good people

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:15:51 +0000

[...] I catch the SoundTransit 545 express bus home from work when I ride the bus. It’s generally a nice ride, apart from the fact that 520 is at a dead stop (even in the wonderfully designed HOV lane) most days so it’s hardly an express. [...]

By: Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » Bus spacing

Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » Bus spacing — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:33:00 +0000

[...] We’ve already been on the bus for ages, stuck in the terrible HOV lanes on 520, so I’ve probably already missed one or more 48 buses I might have caught if there had been no traffic. [...]