Here in Seattle we have a pretty decent transit system. Now, it’s not as good as New York’s, or as many others, but it’s pretty damn good given what we have to work with, especially after the addition of Sound Transit.

Now, we have this nice thing downtown called the Ride Free Zone. In most of downtown, you can get on a bus and ride it to any other part of the zone for free.  This is pretty handy if you want to go grab lunch at the other end of town or something.  There’s also a tunnel that runs under most of 3rd Avenue and then up Pine Street, and at the south end (of third) it connects with a transit-only thoroughfare that runs all the way down to Spokane Street, at least, maybe farther.  If you catch a bus that goes in the tunnel, that’s the quickest way to get from Sodo to north downtown.  This is part of why buses are awesome.  Also we have the S.L.U.T. and light rail going in, but those aren’t buses.

Riding the bus through downtown – wherever it’s going (since anyone can and will hop on just to get to the other end of downtown, since it’s free) always presents you with an interesting cross-section of the population.  Like the guy who gets on talking to himself loudly about punching punk-ass motherfucking bitches, which is probably the extent of his vocabulary.  Or the two women I had the displeasure of riding with once: [somewhat loudly] “Girl, where you been?” “I just got outta jail” “Naw” “Yeah, I had another miscarriage” “In jail?” “Yeah” (something is broken there if you ask me, but that’s another post maybe).  Maybe I should wear kevlar in Belltown (northwest bit of downtown, between Pike, Westlake, and the Denny Regrade), idk.