To the #9 Bus Driver & Anyone Else Looking Askance

So at the intersection of East Aloha Street and 10th Avenue East on Capitol Hill, the west block of East Aloha is one-way. The #9 bus lays over there, and has the street mostly to itself. However, thanks to the work of a hyperlocal blogger Andrew Taylor the DO NOT ENTER sign has a small, easily-overlooked proviso.

A tiny sign at the bottom says: "EXCEPT BICYCLES." So when we cruise down the Aloha hill in the mornings we breeze blissfully past the DO NOT ENTER sign.

The other morning we saw the mighty #9 bus preparing to pull out and take a left in front of us, so we caught the driver's eye and pointed straight. He held up, and as we passed we saw him make the universal, open-palmed WTF? gesture. We felt bad, so we've emailed Metro to let them know we're not a lawless bicyclist. And we have photographic proof.

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By MvB in Miscellaneous on September 9, 2008 2:55 PM

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Troy Morris

jessejb - fucking. bravo.

and RonfromBeaconHill, don't look at this as a news or information source. Look at it as thought it's a community.

There are places all over the web for really high quality (and therefor, low quality) news and information. Great places for humor. Great education sites, too.

I agree, this isn't one of them. This is the watering hole. This is where you go to talk about local events with a larger audience.

They have Happy Hours monthly. You have a great deal of people that respond to one another as with respect (e.g. jessejb and I, or Ruckus and I). We may not agree all the time, but we treat one another as if we were face to face several times a day.

Again, to summize, Seattlest is not a news source. It's a community. I encourage you to join in the banter. Yeah, it's not superficially useful, but it is necessary in the sense that we all need to feel that community. This happens to span the whole city, not just a neighborhood.

Any wonder why the Capitol Hill blog is up in this business, chattin' around?

It matters. Join in.

RonfromBeaconHill

I'm finding this blog more and more uninteresting.

Because of posts like this.

Not interesting. Not funny. Not educational, or informative in any useful way.

Sorry to be harsh.

jessejb

Maybe it was John McCain.

Oh you said "above" nipple level...

Troy Morris

The "I want to hug you" sign has the hands at nipple level, not above.

jseattle

(more) direct link to Andrew's comment (we need to fix how that works, no?)

How do you know the driver wasn't just giving you the universal "I want to hug you" sign?