Attention Anyone who commutes or plans to commute between SLU and the Eastside.

The short version of this post: Metro (and RantWoman but more important Metro) needs to hear from anyone who now commutes or would like to commute between South lake Union / Capital Hill and the Eastside. Metro and Sound Transit planners are now doing public engagement about what the bus network might look like when East Link opens in 2023.

Check out the whole package of proposed revisions:

East Link Connections

There is a button for a survey and the survey is supposed to be available in many languages. Stay tuned for the many languages. Also Stay tuned for another online open house after today's meeting. But in the meantime, if you expect to travel a lot between South Lake Union and the eastside, please give the info a look and fill out the survey

RantWoman can easily imagine that people who do or would like to do this routing might like, instead of riding several stops on Link 1 and then transferring to Link 2, to ride one above-ground bus to the Judkins Park station and then riding Link 2 to whatever would be next on the East Side. More needs to be known about such people.

For a first pass look at RantWoman's views about this topic

Start weighing in about East Link bus changes

Since RantWoman's first pass, RantWoman has sent Metro further thinking about service hours and how maybe to make her Rt 9 suggestion work. First, though, Metro needs to hear from people who commute between the Eastside and South lake Union.

Now a word from tonight's very exhilarating online open house.

 Exhilarating as in RantWoman did not even try to help neighbors log in.

Exhilarating as in not the first time RantWoman has been vexedby some interaction between Zoom and Eventbrite. RantWoman finally just joined the meeting with the meeting ID.

Exhilarating as in LOTS of material to cover. Presenters did a good job and clearly there will be need for more meetings.

Exhilarating as in LOTS going on in the chat. RantWoman has not looked up how to turn notifications off to hear less from screen reader. RantWoman also has enough vision to read at least some of the chat.

Exhilarating as in interpretation in Spanish, Korean, and Hindi but no evidence anyone asked questions through the interpreter. RantWoman expects there will be follow up!

Stay tuned!