Monday, March 11, 2019

This weekend in transit realities


This weekend in transit realities:

 

Cranky?


Bus driver as RantWoman boards her last bus of the day, “How are you?”

 

RantWoman: “I am well, but I can do cranky if needed.”

 

Bus driver laughs, which is exactly what RantWoman needs.

 

 

ORCA mania for senior visitors


ORCA gripe for seniors who frequently visit Seattle: RantWoman encountered a visitor outside her faith community. Visitor and wife are in town while his wife completes some kind of professional certification exam. Visitor was just walking around the neighborhood and rantWoman struck up a conversation, a most wonderful conversation about various interests including the social values embodied by transit.

 

But visitor was also slightly unhappy. He has a Reduced Fare Permit in Spokane. He has an ORCA card in Seattle but no way that he knows of to use his ORCA card AND take advantage of reciprocity for other areas’ senior / Disabled passes. He said he was able to get a senior discount to buy an all-day pass for Link but that a bus driver told him the all-day pass is not valid on the bus.

 

Huh?

 

RantWoman lost patience trying to check what ORCAcard.com says about day passes and has no info about what bus drivers are told, but huh? To RantWoman it makes sense that people who buy a day pass want to be able to use all modes of transit where payment by ORCA is possible. So…

 

 

ABCESS


It’s Sunday, which means it is time again for seniors who might like to see each other andtransit dependent people who would like to see beloved seniors to meditate about ACCESS or as one beloved senior who refuses to use it calls it, ABCESS.

 

RantWoman has a couple much loved elders who both live two different buses away from RantWoman. They both need ACCESS and should not try to bus. RantWoman would be thrilled to see both of them at the same time on Sundays. RantWoman and others are glad to hang out with Beloved Elder. However RantWoman is NOT thrilled to regularly collect data about ACCESS rides being out of pickup window, need for multiple calls, postponements, and other features of fabulous customer service.

 

But onward to the next week.

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