Tough Baseball Season Ahead for Transit Riders

So much good stuff in this Mike Lindblom piece on First Avenue buses (including the title!) in the Times:

The C Line is the busiest of 12 former Alaskan Way Viaduct routes that serve nearly 30,000 passengers from West Seattle, White Center or Burien. They moved last month to the Highway 99 tunnel's new stadium-area interchange when the viaduct closed for good.

The buses eventually will get bus lanes on waterfront Alaskan Way, but this year they're detouring on First Avenue through the historic Pioneer Square district.

Read the whole thing. It's gonna be a tough year for buses using the interim 1st Avenue pathway until Alaskan Way opens. Lindblom explains the ins and outs and alternatives incredibly well.

However, I would suggest to Mayor Durkan that this framing is, er" not helpful:

"Big events are nothing new, and they're nothing new for big cities anywhere in America," [Durkan] said. When there's a game during rush hour, that's the time to stay downtown, have dinner and not be in a hurry to go home, she said.

I love me a good happy hour, but as the mayor surely knows, many bus riders have to pick a kid up from day care or head out to a second job or any number of things that make it hard to just chill out downtown until 7pm or later.