Let the dog in!

According to this article, the ONLY Bainbridge Island bus service running outside commuter times is going to end in four months. This saddens me. How is anyone supposed to wean off of cars if there is NO bus service whatsoever?

I don’t know about all my local readers, but I live on a hill and biking home with Kid in a trailer is not happening until I become the bionic woman. Unless Eric Heiden will move next door (please! please!) and help me uphill. (Seriously, I recently met someone who had this very experience!)

I have already bitched complained about this very bus. But I wanted the run better managed, not discontinued.

See, Kid and I rode the ferry one day and assumed we’d catch that midday bus. What we did not know was you had to run-like-your-ass-was-on-fire to catch the bus which idles for 10 seconds in the parking lot. While Kid is faster than a speeding bullet when chasing crows from her Goldfish baggie, we missed the bus.

Perhaps more people would use the bus if it were waiting for them at the ferry.

Now, the “midday” service (9:30am-2:30pm — how is this midday, btw?) will be gone, due to rising employee costs of pensions and health care.

As if those things are important.

Better to have these people unemployed and Bainbridge Island with no bus service for most of the day.

Maybe that giant multi-million dollar parking garage will be necessary in Winslow after all….hmmmmm. Smells fishy to me.

Do you have good public transportation nearby? Do you use it?

Maybe we should let the pigeon drive the bus after all….

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