{"id":85,"date":"2007-02-24T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wangxiaohu.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2007-02-24T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T18:21:00","slug":"transportation-in-great-seattle-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wangxiaohu.com\/blog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Transportation in Great Seattle Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you go to previous post<\/a>, you will see the pictures I took during my visit to Seattle downtown with her<\/a>. I like not only this city very much, but also the surrounding areas. There are many great places to take a look. The Lake Washington divides the whole area into two parts, the Seattle city and the eastside, where the eastside is where I work and live. Although I don’t have a vehicle so far, it is not difficult for me to travel among all these cities, because there are resources and flexible commute combinations to access and use.<\/p>\n

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Most of the time, I take bus. Before I go to some place, the first thing I do is to visit the Online Trip Planner<\/a>. It is a great tool and it really helped me a lot for my settlement in last month. In the page, you enter the starting point<\/strong> and the destination<\/strong>, the date of the trip<\/strong> (schedules for most routes are different in weekdays and weekend), how far you want to walk<\/strong> and other preferences. I usually choose Fewest Transfers<\/strong> since I am really lazy :P. Then after a click on [Plan Trip] button, it shows several itineraries according to your need. Another neat feature I like, is the Plan Return Trip<\/strong> in the result page, so I don’t have to re-enter everything again for my return.<\/p>\n

Another useful tool for taking a bus on time, is Seattle Bus Tracker<\/a>. Simple enter the route number<\/strong> at the upper left corner, it then shows the locations of the buses for a specific route in real time. It is a great replacement to the bus schedule lookup table. Need to mention that this nice tool is based on Microsoft Virtual Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In some cases, the place I want to go cannot be reached by a bus, such as trails at Redmond<\/a>. That’s one of the reasons why I bought a bike<\/a>. Bike is a convenient tool for traveling, but it doesn’t help much if you are thinking about going to Pike Place Market from Redmond<\/a> and come back. Fortunately, there is a solution to that if you prefer to ride your bike at both ends. Both of the transit companies, Sound Transit<\/a> and Metro Bus<\/a>, have bicycle racks installed on their buses that allows passengers travel with their bikes. I was surprised about it when I first came and it strongly supports my decision to get a bike. More resources for biking in this area are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you drive, there are other commute choices such as carpool, vanpool and Park-n-Ride<\/a>. All these different methods of traveling can also be combined, for instance having a bicycle rack installed on the vanpool vehicles<\/a>. So, where do you want to go today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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