Taking the SLUT to WTBBL

RantWoman's father, time was, as a nonprofit media strategy sometimes used to say "I don't care what you say about me, just keep saying it." True enough, the non-profit was a symphony that otherwise steered clear of scandal and slander and more than average levels of innuendo. Still, RantWoman offers that thought to the perpetrators of the SLUT, the South Lake Union Streetcar or another much more felicitous acronym RantWoman is considering trying to get paid for.

RantWoman still thinks the SLUT is silly and duplicates bus lines all over the place. RantWoman still thinks it's a goshdang civic decoration when some other areas of town with already proven ridership still need more bus hours. RantWoman thinks the SLUT is a lame approach to all the economic and policy imperatives colliding in the Mercer Mess. RantWoman voted at least TWICE against panhandling by billionaires and could certainly drum up further tirades in that vein.

RantWoman is even peeved that the SLUT connects directly with exactly 0 of the buses she rides regularly. RantWoman could certainly add a transfer to something in the tunnel and connect with the SLUT at Westlake. However, unless RantWoman is seized with an irresistible imperative that she categorically MUST ride the SLUT, like as not when RantWoman gets on the road she is going to take potluck and just walk from a bus stop.

However, in the interest of giving the SLUT a fair shake, RantWoman is, when the occasion coincides, willing to try it. Today MAY be such an occasion. Today from 12-2 at the Washington Talking Book and Braille library WTBBL is Friend Day at the local chapter of the American Council of the Blind. (RantWoman actually cannot keep chapters straight and is not necessarily in the market for more meetings to go to, so she apologizes for lack of precision on this point.)

This morning's web-based reconnoitering yielded several cool things. First over the last several years, WTBBL has undergone some organizational shifts. In the picture was, charitably, a real estate land grab and a misguided effort to move the physical location to Olympia completely inaccessible to the 400-some volunteers who contribute thousands of hours of dedicated volunteer service annually to keep the place open. Now WTBBL is administered by the WA Secretary of State. RantWoman notes this because enhanced web presence appears to be a huge benefit of this change. Several different topical links show up directly in a Google search. The Homepage looks like it is designed for services in the 21st century. Directions include excellent descriptions of how to get to the place via several bus routes and even the SLUT. What is not to like!