NOW I can better hypothesize your position. Now I can suggest that maybe you’re one of the “crappy drivers” who hates helping out your customers by stopping after you’ve left the transit bay? Perhaps you’re even the bus driver who must have complained about people trying to get drivers to stop at Bay 6? AH HA!

In any case, please don’t take it personally. I quite like Metro Transit and I quite like the vast majority of the drivers I ride with. In fact, until I started to experience this particular behavior from one specific 545 driver (who is, I should point out for clarity, not you) I hadn’t ever had a single bad experience with Metro Transit drivers. This certainly isn’t intended as some critique of all Metro drivers as “crappy”. Just one… or maybe two, if you want in.

1) I’ve not yet found “a schedule” for the cross-walk across 156th into the Overlake Transit Center. If you know of one, please pass it on. And perhaps it’s BECAUSE I use the http://www.mybus.org/ site with such intensity that I end up in this situation (ie – even if I leave my office 10 minutes ahead of time for the 7 minute walk to Overlake, I’m sunk if I get stuck at the light).

2) I get on and off at Montlake, so your “single file” comment simply isn’t true for me. But I get your point, and still disagree with it. When I used to catch the bus in downtown I don’t ever remember a single stop (not even the plaza at 5th and Pine) where 95% of the bus loaded/unloaded. It’s all about Overlake.

So, my supposition is that you probably don’t ride this bus to or from work if you’re not aware of these irritations. If that’s a false supposition, then my secondary analysis is that you are probably one of the people on the bus who “sighs in frustration” when the nicer bus drivers stop at bay 6 to let in a couple of folks who missed the bus by seconds.

In any case. Thanks for the comments!

You’re either going to wait single file out in the sticks when you get off or you’re going to wait single file when you get on downtown.