(Image: j_alldredge via Twitter)
Given the level of crazy happening on Seattle roadways in recent weeks (see examples via Twitter, below), finding a Sound Transit Route 545 stuck at the tiny roundabout intersection of E Mercer and Malden (map) on a sunny Wednesday morning was only a little surprising.
Thanks for pic, tipster Liz!
Tuesday night, a crash-caused closure of Highway 99 sent streams of cars onto downtown streets and clogged up many neighborhoods in the rest of the city.
Wednesday’s wayward 545 was way way ward — we’re going to guess the driver got confused down around I-5. You can see the standard 545 route here.
“There was a new operator who got off route, which caused a delay,” a Sound Transit rep tells CHS.
In the meantime, get read for more insane moments on Seattle’s fragile surface street infrastructure. Some help is coming. And coming. And coming.
Here’s an almost-live look at traffic in Seattle. Watch from @kiro7chopper right now >> http://t.co/Dr5JrNy2xi pic.twitter.com/bOR03O02uF
— KIRO 7 (@KIRO7Seattle) June 11, 2014
Here it is, the cause of Seattle’s traffic nightmare. A broken expansion joint on I-5. pic.twitter.com/pEj0HHUlbL — Joshua Trujillo (@joshtrujillo) May 29, 2014
The link for the 545 route goes to the King5 coverage of gridlock instead.
I was on a 10 bus going downtown that picked up several refugees from the wayward 545. According to the riders, this is not the first time a driver on that route has gotten lost.
That is incredible that a bus would even attempt to turn on Malden/Mercer. Those streets are so narrow and filled with parked cars that turning is extra tight as is.
Do these buses not have GPS?