Only one wayfinding oops.

 Hah!

Remember RantWoman's angst about construction at the UW Medical Center

Adventures of RantWoman: A wholesome alternative to World Events anxiety: CONSTRUCTION at UW Montlake.

RantWoman is VERY happy to report things turned out to be much simpler than RantWoman was fussing about.

RantWoman arrived on her usual Northbound bus on NE Pacific. Lo, there were both stairs and an elevator. RantWoman is a wimp about stairs, especially poorly lit ones but a friendly human helped RantWoman find the elevator.

Friendly Help told RantWoman to go down and there would be a walkway right from the elevator.

RantWoman did find the walkway on her second try.

First RantWoman just automatically pressed the button for the lowest floor. 

Oh fabulous. Parking garage. Hot. smelly, dimly lit. RantWoman foggeed around a little bit. No walkway.

So RantWoman decided to get back on the elevator and see what was what. This time the elevator stopped on the level that went straight to the walkway. Phew.

The walk to RantWoman's appointment was a bit of a maze, but especially after the procedure the walk was especially helpful in shaking out back spasms. And the exit through the Surgery center toook RantWoman straight to the stop for her bus home.

As an aside,Tips for mapmakers:

make it easy to print just the map on a whole sheet of paper, perhaps automatically landscape mode if possible.

consider using graphics instead of lines for paths. Maybe little round circles for wheelchair friendly and, say, triangles for the pedestrian route. And where they overlap alternate the little icons. Make the graphics different colors but realize that the routes still need to be identifiable if printed in black and white.