To skip the intro narrative and get to the meat of
the transit resources RantWoman tried see the Resources Heading below.
Service Change!
The Buses Come out of the Tunnel Service change is
still a month out and RantWoman is already fussing about it?
Yep!
- Like a true transit nerd?
- Like someone who never runs out of reasons to tank up on anxiety?
- Like someone who will become crabby and confused as the change takes effect unless she has had time to think through various concerns.
- Like someone who has lots of experience with humans who mean well but cannot necessarily provide directions that are entirely helpful to people with disabilities.
- Like someone who knows lots of people around her will want topical info?
- Like someone who cannot think of a better way to party on a Friday afternoon?
- Like someone who crash-tested the info streams on her phone while getting from Point A to Point B and back this morning and now needs to repeat in front of a real keyboard and large screen.
Confessions:
- RantWoman is also procrastinating about another trip through some emotional minefields.
- RantWoman only recently, long after the last service change, found a decent stop on Rainier to catch the 554 and still has not hit the right nodes to find it downtown.
- RantWoman is also apprehensive about dealing with freeway noise for new stops on 6th Avenue.
- In short, RantWoman wants to know where to look for the different options she rides
One of the joys of time on bus plus Smartphone is
that RantWoman can feed her twitter habit and attempt to mine all kinds of info
sources while leaving the driving to others. Whining Twitter yielded two links
which RantWoman deeply appreciates.
The resources
google translate options.
Decent amount of text.
Lots of really visual map segments
And from Seattle DOT
Alert readers who click on these links will observe
fairly complex webpages, webpages that require a lot of clicking to answer
RantWoman’s basic questions: “where will the buses I am used to riding be
found?” And we will not even discuss graphics and screen readers.
RantWoman will of course go back to these two links
and attempt to digest a little at a time. HOWEVER, in the meantime, RantWoman
decided to try….The Google. RantWoman asked Google what she should do if she
wants to go to Kirkland from home on say March 28, after the impending service
change. Google told RantWoman she should ride the bus downtown and transfer to
the 255 iat the International District Station. In other words, the service
change data has not been loaded into Google yet.
So RantWoman’s question tonight: how far ahead of
the service change could the new after service change data be loaded into
Google? If the data were there, RantWoman could trip plan to her heart’s
content figure out stop locations and transfer points, and maybe even visit the
new stop sites before she has to use them.
And what about the Metro / King County trip planner?
RantWoman did not try the Metro / King County trip planner, mainly because last
time she tried it on her phone, it kept crashing and RantWoman never bothered
to try to troubleshoot issues including interaction with accessibility tools.
But RantWoman will see what the trip planner at kingcounty.gov does, just not
tonight. Service change ho!
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