Metro’s web page notes that most buses are running today (Saturday) but that the 10 and 12 are not (Due to adverse weather, all service on this route is currently canceled. Service will resume when weather and road conditions clear.) Buses 8 and 11 are (presumably) on their regular scheduled routes.
Update 5: 20 PM #10 This route will only be operating between Downtown Seattle and 15/John. There is no service north of John St.
Single length #43 trolleys are passing my house (20th & John) on a regular basis and they all have LOTS of room for you.
#48 is running its regular route in our neighborhboods: Due to adverse weather, this route is operating an unpublished reroute. Northbound Reg Rt to WB NW 85th St/24th Av NW, L on SB 24 Av NW, R on WB NW 80th St, R on NB 32 Av NW, R on EB NW 85th St to regular route.Update (5:20 PM): apparently back to full service.
I think Metro has really let us Capital Hill residents down. I think that at least the website should have up to date info. on what routes are operating. Is there some way we can get a group response back to Metro to get better communication during bad weather?
Kathy
I totally agree. What’s with the 10/12 anyway? 15th is clear. Even Grandview (the alley where the 10 turns around) is clear. I think Metro decided early this morning what they were going to run today, and haven’t changed anything since. The last time I was able to ride a bus was 2 weeks ago yesterday!
I just saw a No. 10 (2:27 pm) turning onto 15th, so it appears the line is back on its normal Saturday schedule. But I agree about Metro letting Capitol Hill down. There’s no reason the 10 couldn’t have operated yesterday, for example. I’m guessing some of the issue isn’t the condition of the streets but rather the need to rest staff and rehab equipment.
This is the first time in the fifteen years that I’ve lived on the hill that I can recall the Summit Loop portion of the 14 being closed. Of course, during the worst of it all none of the buses could even make it up Pike or Pike so perhaps it’s a moot point.
But still…
I just saw a #12 heading northbound on 19th Ave…. First time in well over a week.
The #10 never got to the north end of the route. I gave up after 90 mins.
5: 20 PM http://transit.metrokc.gov/up/rr/adverseweather.html
#10 This route will only be operating between Downtown Seattle and 15/John. There is no service north of John St.
Unbelievable that the #10 isn’t running the full route today! And that Charlie (and probably others) only discovered this fact by waiting in vain – 90 minutes!
There were at least three of us at 15th and Galer. Are they turning around on 16th behind Group Health?
I’m guessing that Metro decided to turn the 10 at John because the bus zone southbound on 15th at Galer (where they usually wait to start a new run) is still piled high with snow. SDOT plowed (only) the traffic lanes a couple of days ago, and shoved large chunks of snow and ice into the Metro zone.
So I can just see Metro blaming SDOT for blocking the zone, while riders blame Metro for poor updates on their web site. (It took them 3 hours to update the temporary routing of the 10.)
Frankly, we as riders shouldn’t have to deal with this. The city, the county and everyone else involved need to talk with each other, and with us! I really worry now about how well governments will coordinate in an earthquake, even with their fancy operations centers, drills, and so on, that we’ve been hearing about in recent years.
Or maybe transit isn’t considered important. As I said yesterday on Slog (when I was in a particularly cynical mood): “Metro is messed up because it is widely assumed to serve two groups of people: A) Greenies who take the bus to feel good, but who can dig out the SUVs when they have to; and B) The poor, the homeless, the elderly, the disabled and others who have no transportation alternatives. But since (it is assumed) they don’t vote, they aren’t important.
“I’m just waiting for some stories of little old ladies who starved during the storms because they couldn’t get out to get food. I hope I’m wrong, but I won’t be surprised if that gets in the news next week. It seems like things only get moving in this town after somebody dies (last year’s Madison Park floods, the viaduct falling down…)”
But on CHS, other neighborhood blogs, Slog and Twitter, people are complaining loudly. Even the Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41375452797, which seems to have been started as a joke, is hosting a lot of serious discussion. I hope that people like Ron Sims, who has been active on Facebook and Twitter, and the folks at WSDOT and SDOT, who have been twittering, are taking our complaints seriously.
I spoke to a driver, and she said the 10 had to wait longer to start running again because cars were parked sideways or so far out into the road that the bus couldn’t get through some narrow areas. They didn’t want to tow them in the snow, so they finally started towing them when it cleared up, and getting the 10/12 running again.